A ética para os estudantes do curso de Administração da UFPB

Abstract

Given the speed with which information is currently being disseminated, news about corruption, scandals and corporate fraud is being transmitted at all times. As a result of the crisis of values ​​that has taken hold in Brazil, society increasingly takes on an ethical positioning of organizations. However, how do we expect managers to assume an ethical position in the exercise of their profession, if in their professional formation this behavior is often left out? It is based on this reflection that this study was carried out, seeking to analyze what the UFPB Administration students understand by ethics, consider themselves to be an important theme in their formation and how much this knowledge influences their behavior. The theoretical basis dealt with the conceptualization of ethics and moral and Behavioral Ethics. To reach the objective of the research, a survey was carried out by means of a questionnaire with 104 undergraduate students, between the 5th period and the final ones. A quantitative analysis of the obtained data was performed, where the results showed an inconsistency between the beliefs and the students' attitudes. The article proposes a reflection on how the teaching of ethics is being considered within the university, and how damaging it can be for the formation of the future administrators this inconsistency between their decisions and their actions.