Ethical Ideology of Business Students in India:An Empirical Study

This study examines the ethical ideology of business students in the state of Punjab, India. This study uses Ethics position Questionnaire (Forsyth, 1980) to determine ethical ideology on basis of two dimensions-idealism and relativism. The sample consists of 160 postgraduate students studying in three universities in Punjab. It is found that most of the students are idealistic in their ethical orientation and fall into situationist category. It is also found that the difference of idealism and relativism scores between male and female students is not significant.