Academic Plagiarism and Academic Integrity in Business Environment

Professional Skills for
Business and Finance
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Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK ..............................................................................................................................................3
What is Academic Plagiarism and why is academic integrity relevant to professionalism in a
Business environment ................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................5
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................6
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INTRODUCTION
Professional skills are those characteristics that an individual develop within them so that
it will help them in cooperative world. Theses skills are much required so that they can grow in
their career. Success of employee depends upon the knowledge they have about their job. They
ability help them in positive way as they affect their overall workplace performance. These skills
are required in business as well as in finance. If a person acquire these professional capabilities
than they can helps them in all type of job, industry (Anjum, 2020). Even with these ability they
can also adopt the dynamic environment. These skills can also be transfer with the change in job
or job role. There are so many professional skills that can be inherit by an individual that will
help them in mange the business and finance. These are Leadership skill, emotional intelligence,
flexibility, communication skill, self motivation, problem solving, integrity and many more (Tan
and Laswad, 2018).
TASK
What is Academic Plagiarism and why is academic integrity relevant to professionalism in a
Business environment
Academic plagiarism is an illegal activity in the context of education. It is define as using
another person work or project without giving any credit to that person. In academic it means
copying someone others file and giving it the name of their own. In this the scholar use the ideas,
thought, words, file from any secondary source and not citing it properly. In the education
institution this is an unethical code of conduct, dishonesty toward their work and for that they are
giving punishment on it (Morris, 2018). In one of the survey it is found that merely twenty
percent scholar do their work in ethical way and the rest uses the plagiarism. Plagiarism can
happen in school assignment as well as in professional level to. In professional level it occur in
the arts, content industry. With the growing competition the uses of someone else work is also
gaining importance and becoming a serious issue (Foltýnek, Meuschke and Gipp, 2019).
Academic plagiarism are divided into four parts:
 Global plagiarism: When the whole document is copy paste than it is known as global
plagiarism. The entire text, tables, pictures and even the graphs are similar with the
original source.
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