Ethical Issues for Consideration in Conducting Research in the Social and Behavioural Sciences

Abstract

Interests in the best method to conduct research in the broad areas that constitute the field of social sciences have dominated the thought of researchers. This thinking is not only limited to the best method to conduct research, it also include the best ethical practices required in conducting research. This piece entitled ‘ethical issues required for consideration in conducting researches in the social and behavioral sciences has brought to the front burner some of the ethical issues that all researches in the social and management sciences need to have at their finger tips. The piece considered ethical issues at each stages of conducting research right from conceptualization of the research problem up to the dissemination of the research findings. The paper concludes that in order to maintain and sustain the integrity of research all researchers in the fields that constituted the social and behavioural sciences should consider ethical issues as very important.