Analyzing College Students’ Ethics Perceptions: A Pilot Study at A Foundation University in Turkey

The purpose of this study is to analyze the perspectives of students towards business ethics. A survey focusing on business ethics and the ethical perceptions has been conducted at a foundation university in Turkey. Turkish students and their perceptions on 20 specific ethical behaviors and the relationships with demographic and basic variables were detailed. Ethical crisis usually occurs directly related to disciplines such as law, finance and management etc. Therefore, this study is surveyed to summer school students across 6 departments in Mersin region (n=275 & N=796). The relationship between students’ demographics and other related factors (such as age, gender, year in school, tobacco use, social media account usage, taking any business ethics course or lectures, time spent studying and being employed or trained before or current) were examined but no differences were found. After implementing a factor analysis on the retrieved data, 20 items were reduced to 13 items and classified under three factors entitled with business ethics, personal ethics and materiality ethics. The results show that students’ departments with business ethics factor and the study period of students with personal and materiality ethics factor have significant differences