ETHICAL CONSIDERATIONS OF RESEARCH IN MANAGEMENT SCIENCES

Babatunde Oladipupo Kumolu-Johnson (PhD), Olubayo Thomas Olajide (PhD)

Abstract


Ethical issues are becoming a crucial element in management research. It is compulsory for a researcher conducting research involving humans to apply for ethical clearance. The aim of this study was to make clear ethical issues in Management Sciences Research. This paper examined the meaning of ethics, ethical consideration issues of research that need to be embraced in academic writing. Descriptive research was adopted for this study. This paper finds out that ethical consideration is a necessary requirement for management research and also revealed some of the unethical issues that could render research unacceptable. The paper concludes that research conducted without observing ethical standards may lose its reliability, validity and acceptability.


Keywords


Ethics, Ethical Considerations, Integrity, Informed Consent, Research

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