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Tor Grenness

Professor emeritus - Institutt for kommunikasjon og kultur

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Grenness, Tor (2022)

“If You Don’t Cheat, You Lose”: An Explorative Study of Business Students’ Perceptions of Cheating Behavior

Doi: https://doi.org/10.1080/00313831.2022.2116479 - Fulltekst i vitenarkiv

Student academic dishonesty is a pervasive problem for higher education institutions all over the world. The purpose of the present study is to take an interpretative, qualitative approach intended to understand student thinking and reflections when it comes to the perceived seriousness and prevalence of cheating. Peer interviews, i.e., students interviewing students, were chosen as the data collection method. Open and analytical coding based on the principles of grounded theory provided the foundations for the analyses. Overall, the results of this study support previous correlational findings, but they also demonstrate that many students tend to talk about cheating as if it is “part of the game”. It furthermore seems that students rate different forms of cheating from less to more serious, and that some forms of cheating are not perceived as cheating at all. “Everybody else does it” is obviously a widespread belief, which easily leads to—as one informant expressed it—“if you don’t cheat, you lose”. In order to deal with student cheating, the students themselves recommended fewer take-home examinations and more use of continuous assessment. The findings further indicate that schools should make an effort to build a “non-cheating culture”. Rather than punishing students, convincing them that normal behavior is not to cheat, and that cheating benefits no one is probably the best way to deal with this behavior.

Grenness, Tor & Warner-Søderholm, Gillian (2018)

Project GLOBE differences in values and practices scores - mind the gap: the case of the nordics

7(1) , s. 116- 142.

Grenness, Tor (2017)

Storytelling as a way for Humanizing Research Methods

5(1)

Warner-Søderholm, Gillian & Grenness, Tor (2016)

Kulturelle normer, selvsensur og ytringsfrihet: finner vi regionale forskjeller?

, s. 247- 272.

Grenness, Tor (2015)

National culture and economic performance: a cross-cultural study on culture's impact on econimic performance across the 27 member countries of the european union

4(1) , s. 69- 97. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5465/ambpp.2013.13672abstract

Grenness, Tor (2015)

Culture matters: space and leadership in a cross-cultural perspective

, s. 199- 217. Doi: https://doi.org/10.4337/9781783477920.00021

Reiche, B. Sebastian; Cardona, Pablo, Lee, Yih-Teen, Canela, Miguel Ángel, Akinnukawe, Esther, Briscoe, Jon P., Bullara, César, Caparas, Maria Victoria, Caprar, Dan V., Charlemagne, Dallied, Grenness, Tor, He, Wei, Jamro, Konrad, Kainzbauer, Astrid, Koester, Kathrin, Lazo, Alma, Moreno, Alejandro, Morley, Michael J., Myloni, Vivian, Nadeem, Sadia, Aguirre, Marisa Nieto, Svishchev, Alexey, Taylor, Scott N. & Wilkinson, Helen (2014)

Why do managers engage in trustworthy behavior? A multilevel cross-cultural study in 18 countries

67(1) , s. 61- 98. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1111/peps.12038

Grenness, Tor (2013)

Manager-Subordinate Trust Relationships in Norway

, s. 59- 77.

Grenness, Tor (2012)

På jakt etter en norsk ledelsesmodell

(4) , s. 51- 59.

Grenness, Tor & Paoli, Donatella De (2012)

Building and transferring corporate culture and leadership philosophy through alternative workplace design. The case of Telenor Norway

(1) , s. 29- 55.

Grenness, Tor (2012)

Hofstede revisited: Is making the ecological fallacy when using Hofstede's instrument on individual behavior really unavoidable?

7(7) , s. 75- 84. Doi: https://doi.org/10.5539/ijbm.v7n7p75

This paper suggests that avoiding the ecological fallacy is - under certain circumstances - possible. One problem in (cross-cultural) research is that there are often two levels of theorizing (individual and country) that needs to be taken into account when data are being analyzed and conclusions are drawn. Typically, as is the case with Hofstede's (1980) well-known research, cultural values are measured on country level. Consequently, researchers who make causal inferences from such group data to individual behaviors are making the ecological fallacy, i.e they (most often) wrongly assume that relationships observed for groups necessarily hold for individuals. If, however, a method could be found that could help determining how individuals behave from the study of aggregated data, the usefulness of Hofstede's research (and research on aggregated data in general) from a manager's point of view would definitely increase. In this paper the problem of the ecological fallacy, as well as different methods of avoiding it is discussed, and a particular solution of the problem is suggested.

Grenness, Tor (2011)

The impact of National Culture on CEO Compensation and Salary Gaps between CEOs and Manufacturing Workers

43(2) , s. 100- 108. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1177/0886368710393136

Grenness, Tor (2011)

Will the Scandinavian leadership Model survive the forces of Globalization? A SWOT analysis

7(3) , s. 332- 351. Doi: https://doi.org/10.1504/IJBG.2011.042062

Grenness, Tor (2010)

Trusting people you don't know more than trusting your manager - a paradox or isit possible to explain? lessons from cross-cultural studies on trust

1(2) , s. 93- 109.

Grenness, Tor (2005)

Refleksjoner på frynsegoder i et tverrfaglig perspektiv

Grenness, Tor (2004)

Refleksjoner rundt frynsegoder i et tverrkulturelt perspektiv

Grenness, Tor (2003)

Scandinavian Managers on Scandinavian Management

16, s. 9- 21.

Grenness, Tor (2011)

Typisk norsk ledelse

[Kronikk]

Grenness, Tor (2011)

Ledelse er hvem, hva, hvor

[Kronikk]

Grenness, Tor (2013)

National Culture and Economic Performance

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Grenness, Tor (2012)

Hvordan kan du vite om noe er sant? 2. utgave

[Textbook].

Paoli, Donatella Maria De & Grenness, Tor (2011)

Building and transferring corporate culture and leadership philosophy through alternative workplace design. The case of Telenor

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Grenness, Tor & Paoli, Donatella De (2011)

Building and transferring corporate culture and leadership philosophy through alternative work place design. The case of Telenor, Norway

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Paoli, Donatella Maria De & Grenness, Tor (2011)

Tansfer of Telenors Scandinavian Workform, leadership philosophy and alternative office space design in Asia

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Grenness, Tor (2009)

A reciprocal model of trust in manager-subordinate relationships: an eighteen-country study

[Conference Lecture]. Event

Grenness, Tor (2008)

Managementspråkets nøkkelbegreper

[Textbook].

Grenness, Tor (2004)

Hvordan kan du vite om noe er sant? Veiviser i forsknings- og utredningsarbeid for studenter, ledere, konsulenter og journalister

[Textbook].

Akademisk grad
År Akademisk institusjon Grad
2000 Brunel University D.B.A.
1990 University of Oslo Master Cand. Polit.
Arbeidserfaring
År Arbeidsgiver Tittel
2001 - Present BI Norwegian Business School Associate Professor
2001 - 2001 BI Norwegian Business School Assistant professor
2000 - 2000 BI Norwegian BusinessSchool Assistant Professor II

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