Effect of Unethical Practices on the Effective Management of Colleges of Education in Anambra State
Chapter One
Objective of the study
The primary objective of this study is to comprehensively investigate the impact of unethical practices on the effective management of Colleges of Education in Anambra State. The research aims to achieve the following specific objectives:
- To examine the prevalence and types of unethical practices within Colleges of Education in Anambra State.
- To evaluate the impact of unethical practices on academic integrity within Colleges of Education.
- To assess the financial implications of unethical practices.
CHAPTER TWO
REVIEWED OF RELATED LITERATURE
Education: Education is an indispensable ingredient for economic, political, social, cultural and spiritual growth and development.
Fafunwa (1974) defined education as what each generation gives to its younger ones, which makes them to develop attitudes, abilities, skills and other behaviours which are of positive value to the society in which they live.
Kneller (1971) defines education as the process by which society deliberately transmits its cultural heritage through schools, colleges and universities and other institutions. Education is the process of teaching on the part of teachers and learning on the part of learners. But the educative process is also facilitated by school administrators, who have the responsibility of creating the enabling environment for the realization of educational ends.
Ethics: At its simplest, ethics is a system of moral principles. They affect how people make decisions and lead their lives. Ethics deal with values that people use to guide themselves when making choices about their relationships with other people. Ethics has to do with rules of a game or code of conduct expected of a group of people in an organization or in a profession. These human actions and behaviour are governed by a set of norms or code of conduct within any given society. Hence, ethics is“a normative science of human conduct”(Okeand Eskot1). It is the science that is concerned with the rightness or wrongness of human action or conduct in the society. Ethics covers the following dilemmas:
- how to live a good life
- our rights and responsibilities
- the language of right and wrong
- moral decisions – what is good and bad?
Ethical Conduct: Ethical conduct is a good or expected type of behaviour. This is a desired moral type of behaviour or legal behaviour from a professional. Ethical conduct can be quite complex and is determined by many factors: Fleet (1991) identified five factors that determine individual ethics. They include: 1. Family influences (2) Peer influences (3) Past experiences (4) values and morals and (5) situational factors can go a long way to shape one’s ethics.
Unethical Conduct: unethical conduct can simply mean unacceptable behaviour. A behaviour devoid of good, it is a bad act or an illegal act punishable by law. Unethical behaviour is an act of disobedience in an organization. This is an act that is contrary to the rules, norms, morals, regulations, ethics and laws of a group of people.
Types of Unethical Conducts In University System: There are many different types of unethical behaviours in our university system nowadays. There include:
- Examination malpractice. This ranges from coping of another candidate’s work, taking in already prepared answer material into the examination hall to aid a candidate or candidates, Giraffing, impersonation to leakage.
- Cultism: Cult activities involve both teachers and students. This is act of joining secret cults in universities for one reason or the other, best known to them.
- Sales of unauthorized books to students by teachers, and worse still forcing students to buy such books.
- Sexual harassment. This is one of the immoral behaviours on the part of male teachers. Here female students are intimidated by male teachers, threatening them with a failure if they do not have sexual relationship with them
- Sexual or monetary gratification. Here students offer either sex or money to teachers or even both, or ordinary gift items in order to pass or obtain high grades in examinations.
- Sales of admission to students. Students who did not do well in their Joint Admission and Matriculation Examination always pay some amount of money to some officers who use admission period for making money.
CHAPTER THREE
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY
INTRODUCTION
In this chapter, we described the research procedure for this study. A research methodology is a research process adopted or employed to systematically and scientifically present the results of a study to the research audience viz. a vis, the study beneficiaries.
RESEARCH DESIGN
Research designs are perceived to be an overall strategy adopted by the researcher whereby different components of the study are integrated in a logical manner to effectively address a research problem. In this study, the researcher employed the survey research design. This is due to the nature of the study whereby the opinion and views of people are sampled. According to Singleton & Straits, (2009), Survey research can use quantitative research strategies (e.g., using questionnaires with numerically rated items), qualitative research strategies (e.g., using open-ended questions), or both strategies (i.e., mixed methods). As it is often used to describe and explore human behaviour, surveys are therefore frequently used in social and psychological research.
POPULATION OF THE STUDY
According to Udoyen (2019), a study population is a group of elements or individuals as the case may be, who share similar characteristics. These similar features can include location, gender, age, sex or specific interest. The emphasis on study population is that it constitutes of individuals or elements that are homogeneous in description.
This study was carried to examine Effect of unethical practices on the effective management of colleges of education in Anambra state. Selected students of colleges of education in Anambra state form the population of the study.
CHAPTER FOUR
DATA PRESENTATION AND ANALYSIS
INTRODUCTION
This chapter presents the analysis of data derived through the questionnaire and key informant interview administered on the respondents in the study area. The analysis and interpretation were derived from the findings of the study. The data analysis depicts the simple frequency and percentage of the respondents as well as interpretation of the information gathered. A total of eighty (80) questionnaires were administered to respondents of which only seventy-seven (77) were returned and validated. This was due to irregular, incomplete and inappropriate responses to some questionnaire. For this study a total of 77 was validated for the analysis.
CHAPTER FIVE
SUMMARY, CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATION
Introduction
It is important to ascertain that the objective of this study was to ascertain Effect of unethical practices on the effective management of colleges of education in Anambra state.. In the preceding chapter, the relevant data collected for this study were presented, critically analyzed and appropriate interpretation given. In this chapter, certain recommendations made which in the opinion of the researcher will be of benefits in addressing effect of unethical practices on the effective management of colleges of education in Anambra state.
Summary
This study was on effect of unethical practices on the effective management of colleges of education in Anambra state.. Three objectives were raised which included: To examine the prevalence and types of unethical practices within Colleges of Education in Anambra State, to evaluate the impact of unethical practices on academic integrity within Colleges of Education and to assess the financial implications of unethical practices. A total of 77 responses were received and validated from the enrolled participants where all respondents were drawn from selected students of colleges of education in Anambra state. Hypothesis was tested using Chi-Square statistical tool (SPSS).
Conclusion
In conclusion, this study has provided valuable insights into the profound impact of unethical practices on the effective management of Colleges of Education in Anambra State. The findings underscore the pervasive nature of unethical behaviors and their far-reaching consequences on the academic, financial, and organizational dimensions of these institutions.
Recommendation
It is hoped that the ideas discussed in this paper will encourage school administrators, governments, teachers and students think through some of the unethical conducts or behaviours they exhibit in their jobs so that they may change positively, and become more reasonable and ethical. A lot of unethical conducts can be controlled through ethical reasoning among the concerned people when they are convinced and understand the moral basis for ethical conducts.
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