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• (H0)3: The intent (would) to report a R200 theft from an employer will not differ from the belief (should) that the theft should be reported between males and females.
• (H0)4: The intent (would) to report an erroneous R1500 credit to the student’s account will not differ from the belief (should) that the error should be reported between males and females.
• (H0)5: The intent (would) to report a mark increase error to one’s own final marks will not differ from the belief (should) that the error should be reported between males and females.
• (H0)6: The intent (would) to report a company that is illegally dumping hazardous materials will not differ from the belief (should) that the incident should be reported between males and females.
• (HO)7:The intent (would) to report a company that is hiring undocumented workers will not differ from the belief (should) that the hiring practice should be reported between males and females.
The empirical investigation was exploratory, quantitative in nature and employed a cross-sectional survey design. The population for this study included all the full time undergraduate and post graduate students in business sciences at a public university in South Africa. The target population for this study was 15 000 students of which 500 participated in the study. Students were selected through the application of a non-probability sampling approach and the convenience sampling technique. To ensure a measure of representivity, only commerce students were targeted for this study as the study was interested in surveying business practitioners of the future. The questionnaires were distributed in the lecture hall environment and care was taken to select a popular major subject in commerce students’ curriculum to distribute the questionnaire to ensure an equitable spread of different fields of study. The measuring instrument used was an adaptation of a structured questionnaire and was developed and validated by Kiser, Rauschhuber and Parker (2011). The measuring instrument was a self-administered questionnaire which presented seven ethical scenarios to respondents.
Data was collected through the use of questions measuring nominal data (yes/no questions) pertaining to each scenario. A total of 500 questionnaires were distributed. The data obtained from the questionnaires was coded, captured and edited by the Statistical Consultation Service of the University of Johannesburg. The Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to analyse the results. Chi-Squared analysis was performed on the data to test the stated null- hypotheses at a 95% confidence level.
FINDINGS AND RESULTANT DISCUSSION
Of the 500 questionnaires distributed, 471 were/ returned, all of which were usable. This represents a 94.2% response rate. Table 1 reflects the demographic data applicable to the sample: TABLE 1: DEMOGRAPHIC DATA