THE IMPACT OF BUSINESS SCHOOL STUDENTS’ ACADEMIC PERFORMANCE ON THEIR CORRUPTIVE BEHAVIOR PERCEPTIONS

Abstract

This research aims at examining the impact of business students’ academic performance, especially their GPA, average grade of ethics and religion subjects toward their corruptive behavior perceptions. The population of this research is undergraduate business students of Faculty of Economics, Universitas Islam Indonesia. By using purposive sampling technique, a total of 119 samples which consist of 59 Accounting students and 60 Management students who had taken ethics subjects (Islamic Economics, Shariah Entrepreneurships) and religion subjects (Islam for Scholar, Islam Rahmatan Lil ‘Alamin) were collected. Results of structural equation modelling indicate that students’ academic performance in GPA and ethics subjects have negative and significant impact toward corruptive behavior perceptions, while academic performance in religion subjects have negative and insignificant impact toward corruptive behavior perceptions. Moreover, the result also showed that there is an insignificant difference between Accounting and Management students’ corruptive behavior perceptions.