Abstract: ethics and ethics education have become increasingly relevant today, given the rise of unethical research practices, scandals, scientific misconduct and corporate disasters. This article reviews two papers presented by l niami and m lindorff in this regard. While lindorff asserts that organizational issues shape the objectives of research, the interests of participants are neglected, thus ignoring the possible effect of the research outcomes on individuals. She ascribes this lapse to the lack of proper guidance on the ethical responsibility of business researchers towards their participants and thus suggests ingraining these principles at college and university levels. She urges the implementation of principles of justice, beneficence and respect for persons when involving human subjects in research. Naimi on the other hand, examines this issue with an eye on the university community and emphasizes on understanding and monitoring the research process to ensure that it progresses ethically. Researchers must also understand the consequences of unethical conduct. She identified informed consent, voluntary participation, confidentiality and seven such other principles of ethics as essential in research and proposes critical inquiry, role playing and games and other such strategies to inculcate them.
Keywords: Ethics, Ethics in Research, Teaching Research Ethics, Impact of Ethics on Research.
Title: An Analysis of Ethics in Business Research
Author: Elo Claire Odogbo
International Journal of Social Science and Humanities Research
ISSN 2348-3164 (online), ISSN 2348-3156 (Print)
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