Level of ethical behavior among engineering students: Polytechnic Malaysia

Abstract

Recently, the increasing number of social problems has put society in unease situation regardless they are committed by professionals or nonprofessionals. This is due to, among others, lack of good values to drive individuals in the right way. Thus, the article discusses level of ethical behaviour among engineering students at polytechnic in Malaysia. The article adopts quantitative approach by using survey technic. Data collection is conducted using set of questionnaire and then the collected data is analysed using SPSS 22.0 software. The interpretation of data is explained using descriptive statistic method. The value of alpha cronbach collected is α = 0.696 and the article involved 391 students from 3 polytechnics in Malaysia. In total, level of ethical behaviour among engineering students in polytechnics of Malaysia is at moderate level with mean score = 2.41 and standard deviation = 1.23. However, collected data shows that 64% of students committed at least once unethical behaviour during their period of study. This article concludes with several recommendations to solve the issue.