Relevance of Academic Integrity to Professionalism in Business

This essay examines the concept of academic plagiarism and underscores the critical relevance of academic integrity in maintaining professionalism within the business environment. It defines plagiarism as presenting another's work as one's own, emphasizing its detrimental effects on a firm's reputation and an individual's career prospects. The essay highlights that academic integrity, built on honesty, trust, and respect, is fundamental to learning, teaching, and research. It fosters a culture of ethical conduct, enabling individuals to be trustworthy and reliable in their professional dealings. The essay concludes that cultivating academic skills and upholding academic integrity are essential for students to achieve their academic objectives and for professionals to succeed in the business world.

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Contents
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INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................3
TASK 1............................................................................................................................................3
Academic plagiarism and why academic integrity relevant to professionalism in a business
environment................................................................................................................................3
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................6
REFERENCES................................................................................................................................7
Books and journals......................................................................................................................7
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INTRODUCTION
The business environment encompasses all those aspects that impact a firm’s operations and
involves consumers, competitors, suppliers, trends of industry, rules and other government
functions, social and technological advances. Professionalism is very important in business as it
promotes a respectful culture, which should see conflict handled appropriately. Academic
plagiarism occurs when a writer continuously uses more than four words from a printed source
without the use of quotation marks and an accurate reference to the actual source in the work
presented as research and author scholarship. Academic integrity allows students and staff the
freedom to create new ideas, understanding and work while judging and identifying the working
of others (Burbidge and Hamer, 2020).
TASK 1
Academic plagiarism and why academic integrity relevant to professionalism in a business
environment.
Plagiarism refers to present another person's work and ideas as its own, with or without their
agreement, by assimilating them into their work without fully realizing it. The best way to avoid
plagiarism is to understand and apply the rules of good academic from the beginning of the
university career. Plagiarism is when anyone is using someone else's words and tells them in
their own ideas. It is not allowed in school or universities otherwise, it is a good idea to
understand how to utilise resources in a proper way, like websites or books etc.
Academic plagiarism can destroy the reputation of the firm for their work. If they are caught
copying anyone else's work, their supervisor may put up their payment and, in some cases, they
have to release them. Job reputation can be ruined; it can hurt the future job prospects.
Plagiarism is not only dangerous for students, but can affect people of all parts of life. This act of
evilness has become very popular with the birth of the internet. A search engine like Google
makes it very easy to find the work of various writers in a few seconds where everyone can copy
paste it easily into their work. This immorality is uncontrolled in every aspect of life (Leung and
Cheng, 2017).
If someone is using a website, then the most essential part is a different part and very unique. For
specialized writing, an individual should usually look for the aid of writers. If the materials
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provided by those writers are sneaked, and they upload them without testing the alterations, this
will lead to serious consequences for their site such as downgrading or fining Google.
Academic integrity is the base of learning, teaching and research at the University. It allows
students and staff the freedom to create new ideas, understanding and creative work while
respecting and identifying the work of others. Academic integrity is at the heart of the
university's policy of allowing for the exchange of ideas and the development of new knowledge,
and it requires individual scholars to work together and trust each other. Avoiding academic
dishonesty like cheating and lying is often mentioned as a way to increase academic integrity.
But when the concentration is on immorality where honesty is lacking and the issue of integrity
is based on suspicion rather than trust, respect, and maturity.
Academic integrity is the pursuit of learning in an open, honest and sincere way. All students
must act with integrity, respect the dignity of other students, their rights and property, and assists
build and maintain the environment in which all can achieve the fruits of their labours (Feller,
2019). Academic integrity is important as it aids to maintain trust between them and the people
around people in the business sector. People can trust them to be honest and to do the right thing
without being monitored. Trust is the key to a successful business venture. Academic integrity is
more than just avoiding dishonest practices such as cheating, cheating, or cheating on a contract;
means engaging and learning with well-executed and intentionally learning. It involves using the
right methods, efforts and good skills. In particular, it means actively using all learning
experiences.
Many teachers, students and administrators accept this principles of academic integrity because
they know that goals for teaching, learning, and research can only be achieved in areas where
ethical standards they are supported. However, it is still rare for student’s institutions to
recognise and define their commitment to it the principles of integrity in terms of existing
conditions as well beautiful and practical. Instead, it is very common to find the topic of
academic integrity mentioned by identifying and forbidding the opposite behaviour principles of
integrity. Basic principles the project is an attempt to build academic integrity in ways that is
both good and practical.
Integrity gives a sense of security and confidence as a person. If an individual is not honest,
nothing can undermine self-confidence as a person is not honest with their behaviour and values.
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Self-confidence comes from being secured in who they are and meditating on what others does
(Dixon and George, 2020).
Academic integrity is important because it can give a peace of mind knowing that an individual
believes in doing the right thing, and that they are always trying to live up to those beliefs. Being
honest can reduce a lot of unnecessary stress in their life, making happier and more productive.
True and sometimes hard gaining of knowledge and respect comes from the presentation of one's
own work and respecting the work of others. Personal and academic honesty promotes trust
which can be between all members of the community that is an essential to a good learning
environment (Fenton and Gralla, 2020).
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CONCLUSION
It is concluded from the above report that academic skills are a collection of learning habits,
learning strategies, and time management tools helping students to learn and hold school lessons.
Teachers often incorporate educational skills into their own lessons so that students can really
understand certain concepts Educational skills motivate students to be effective students. They
give students the hope of fully participating. English-speaking courses are also important outside
of the classroom and after graduation. Academic integrity is essential in any educational
environment to make sure that the student achieves the academic objectives and meets their
standards.
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REFERENCES
Books and journals
Burbidge, T. and Hamer, R., 2020. Academic Honesty in the International Baccalaureate
Diploma Programme: Student, Teacher, and School Perspectives. Journal of International
Students, 10(2), pp.265-285.
Leung, C. H. and Cheng, S. C. L., 2017. An Instructional Approach to Practical Solutions for
Plagiarism. Universal Journal of Educational Research, 5(9), pp.1646-1652.
Feller, E., 2019. Deceit, lies and plagiarism in residency applications. RI Med J (2013), 102(2),
pp.8-9.
Dixon, Z. P. and George, K., 2020. Course Villain: Sounding the depths of crowd-sourced
plagiarism.
Fenton, A. L. and Gralla, C., 2020. Student Plagiarism in Higher Education: A Typology and
Remedial Framework for a Globalized Era. Academic Misconduct and Plagiarism, p.109.
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