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What is Proactive Action

Chapter 27
Handbook of Research on Teaching Ethics in Business and Management Education
This involves being proactive and anticipating events before they occur, as well as being prepared and ready for the incident if it were to occur. An example of this would be a teacher ensuring beforehand that a student cannot get an opportunity to cheat during an exam.
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Academic Dishonesty and Cheating: Proactive and Reactive Action Implications for Faculty and Students
Aditya Simha (Gonzaga University, USA) and John B. Cullen (University of Amsterdam, The Netherlands)
Copyright: © 2012 |Pages: 20
DOI: 10.4018/978-1-61350-510-6.ch027
Abstract
This chapter provides a comprehensive review of the literature on academic dishonesty and cheating, by defining the different kinds of cheating behaviors, and then illustrating the different factors that have an impact on cheating behaviors. The authors then offer suggestions derived from their synthesis of these studies, as to how to better react to this phenomenon and take corrective as well as proactive action, so as to be able to control and perhaps reduce instances and occurrences of academic dishonesty and cheating.
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