Administrators and coaches in universities and colleges have focused on their students' moral development since the beginning of the higher education system. Students who participate in sports activities have acknowledged that they develop many life skills, including ethical behaviors, that can translate to non-sport environments, such as the classroom. Students who participate in organized sports programs in college often acknowledge their coach as a significant source of their development, due to the amount of time athletes and coaches spend with each other. Recently, instances of cheating have become widespread throughout American higher education. In this dissertation, I seek to evaluate the role that coaches, and overall sports participation has on the development of students' ethical behaviors both within sports and outside of the sport environment. I conducted three quantitative studies to evaluate the role that coaches play in the development of ethical behaviors in sports (as measured through sportsmanship), the similarities and differences in sportsmanship between participation in varsity or club sports, and the role that sports participation has on self-reported instances of cheating. I find that coaching behaviors that instill sportsmanship behaviors are similar to behaviors identified in youth sports and that the coaching behaviors are more predictive of coaches caring that their athletes act in a sportsmanlike way within varsity athletes than club athletes. Lastly, this study also indicates that participation in recreational sports programs is related to self-reported instances of cheating. The three studies identify that sports participation influences the development of ethical behaviors within college students.

<p dir="ltr"><b>Background:</b> Though ethics has been recognized as an important aspect of engineering education, there is not a definitive consensus on what ethical engineering is. This dissertation seeks to understand what constitutes ethical behaviors in engineering by distinguishing them from other normative behaviors.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Purpose:</b> This study aims to understand what ethical engineering looks like in practice by addressing the research question: To what extent do engineering ethics experts agree when normative behaviors in engineering are also ethical in nature? While definitions of what constitutes ethical engineering practice are varied in the literature and have been debated theoretically by scholars, this study adopts an empirical approach to understand how experts in engineering ethics conceptualize ethical behaviors in engineering.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Methods:</b> This dissertation study uses a Delphi process to build consensus among experts on what behaviors constitute ethical engineering practice. The Delphi panel consisted of 27 scholars, educators, and practicing engineers with expertise in engineering ethics who provided iterative feedback across three rounds of data collection through questionnaires. Round 1 generated 25 statements of normative behaviors in engineering. Round 2 prompted panelists to judge the ethicality of each behavior. Round 3 presented panelists with the aggregated responses and opinions from the previous round and invited them to revise their judgments.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Findings:</b><b> </b>The results of the Delphi process identified areas of consensus and disagreement among the panel on which normative behaviors in engineering are generally considered ethical or non-ethical in nature. Of the 25 statements, panelists agreed that 20 of the behaviors tended to be ethical in nature and one behavior tended to be non-ethical in nature, while the remaining four statements did not yield consensus.</p><p dir="ltr"><b>Contribution:</b> This research aims to provide clarity around what constitutes ethical behaviors in engineering by differentiating them conceptually from other normative behaviors in engineering practice. The empirical approach taken in this study has implications for research, teaching, and assessment in engineering ethics education. Specifically, the questionnaire developed through the Delphi process can be deployed to study engineering students and practitioners to make broader claims about what is ethical in engineering.</p>

Made available in DSpace on 2016-04-25T16:44:51Z (GMT). No. of bitstreams: 1 ADM - Ricardo Ennio Beccari.pdf: 471944 bytes, checksum: 0e5a99b67a3840097e0c8a6a198d8e4e (MD5) Previous issue date: 2006-10-26 / The Financial Globalization process has intensified in the last thirty years, having as its direct outcome a significant increase in the financial securities volatilities, with serious consequences to the banking systems around the world. Society s response to these crises has been characterized by a group of regulatory measures on the basis of the law. However, the managing banking businesses, as in any other industry, is subject to agency and moral hazard problems, because, in spite of there having norms to run organizations, the relations within it are made of people, and their behavior is always exposed to conflicts of moral and ethics nature. Bearing this chaos in mind, this assignment provides a historical review of ethical and moral concepts and applies them to the Brazilian banking system, intending to investigate evidences on ethical behaviors in the financial operations management. It was intended to introduce qualitative ethical concepts and to quantify them by means of statistical research, in search of potential ethical indicators within the Brazilian banking system / O processo de Globalização Financeira intensificou-se nos últimos trinta anos tendo como conseqüência direta um expressivo aumento das volatilidades nos ativos financeiros, com graves conseqüências para os sistemas bancários. A resposta da Sociedade a essas crises tem sido ex-post, caracterizando-se por um conjunto de medidas regulatórias, com embasamento jurídico. Entretanto, a gestão dos negócios bancários, como a de outro qualquer, está exposta aos problemas de agência e risco moral, pois existem normas para gerir as organizações, mas as relações se fazem por intermédio de pessoas, o que pode acarretar conflitos de natureza ética e moral. Tendo em vista esse caos, o presente trabalho procura rever historicamente os conceitos de ética e moral e aplicá-los, limitando-o ao sistema bancário brasileiro com a finalidade de procurar evidências de comportamentos éticos, na gestão das operações financeiras. Procurou-se, introduzir conceitos qualitativos de ética e, por meio de estudos estatísticos quantificá-los, obtendo-se uma proposta de possíveis Indicadores de ética do sistema bancário brasileiro