The Transient Effects of Limited Ethics Training

Abstract Previous research suggests that integrating a limited amount of ethics training into a business course can have an immediate positive impact. However, this study suggests that those results give false hope, because the effects of such training appear to be short-lived. Subjects' ethical standards declined significantly over a 4-week period after exposure to an ethics module incorporated into a management course.

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