Academic integrity and plagiarism Literature & Language Essay (Essay Sample)

PLAGIARISM AND ACADEMIC INTEGRITY IN WORKPLACE
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Plagiarism refers to stealing and passing off words or ideas of another person without crediting or recognizing the source. This is also known as committing literacy theft. Plagiarism can also define as the presenting of original thought or product as a new one without deriving its source. Plagiarism is a simple mistake like failing or forgetting to cite the source or even a something severe like pasting exact information copied from another person's work without showing a citation (Catapult Creative Media,2017).
Plagiarism is not only practiced in the education sector but also in the corporate world. The exists many incidences where staff in our workplaces practice plagiarism. The following are some of the occurrences where employees practice plagiarism intentionally or mistakenly in their places of work; the first example is the use of images of others by graphic and web designers. Company designers use pictures created by others to enhance their branding tools and marketing collateral aesthetics such as logos, brochures, and websites. If a company designer uses an image produced by another photographer or graphic made by another designer without permission, then this is a form of plagiarism. Another example, taking credit for co-worker's ideas. Some employees take the opinions of other workers related to the improvement of the company's products that may help in saving money to the management or another senior employee as their own to get some good reputation, promotion, or reward.