Behavioural Factors of Corruption in the Construction Industry

Nordin, Rumaizah Mohd; Takim, Roshana; Nawawi, Abdul Hadi

doi:10.1016/j.sbspro.2013.11.008

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“…Thus, the hypothesis (H3) was accepted where internalization of professional responsibility influence accounting students awareness towards fraud prevention. This is consistent with the previous research result of Gaffikin and Lindawati (2012) that shows formal morality would be created by an awareness of moral development and will contribute to the adherence of conscience of the individual comprehensive and universal while Nordin et al (2013) stated that corruption is related to human behaviour including individual obedient behaviour to follow the law and behaviours of greed, boast, dishonest, and jealousy. Table 04 provides the summary of the study.…”

Section: Reliability Analysissupporting

confidence: 92%

Accounting Students’ Awareness TowardsFraud Prevention: A Case Of Government-Linked University

Azman¹

2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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This study is aim to evaluate the awareness of accounting students towards fraud prevention. This research examines the relationship between i) the student's ethical perceptions, ii) internalization of objectivity and iii) internalization of professional responsibility with accounting students awareness towards fraud prevention. This study was conducted in one of Government-Linked University, University Tenaga Nasional, Sultan Haji Ahmad Shah Campus (UNITEN KSHAS). The total number of population is 944 students, hence the sample of 285 accounting students are selected to test the objective of the study. Accounting students were selected as the sample because of they are more likely to work in accounting profession which requires them to be aware of this fraud issue. This study was conducted by using primary data by using questionnaires that adopted from Istiningrum (2014). The research employed descriptive analysis, normality test, reliability test and correlation analysis. Based on the findings, it is show that students' ethical perception, internalization of objectivity, and internalization of professional responsibility have positive significant influence towards the awareness of fraud prevention among accounting students.For the future research, it is highly recommended to be conducted in various types of universities as the result might be more appropriate to make the conclusion. It is also recommended to do research by using interview as it might be offer completely beneficial information from the respondents.

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Section: Reliability Analysissupporting

confidence: 92%

Accounting Students’ Awareness TowardsFraud Prevention: A Case Of Government-Linked University

Azman¹

2018

The European Proceedings of Social and Behavioural Sciences

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“…Also, because the philosophy underlying integrity-related risk management is that even the smallest act of corruption is punishable, and a project size must not affect how a company deals with ethics and compliance (Scalza 2008). Notwithstanding this perspective, project characteristics define corruption vulnerability (Locatelli et al 2017;Nordin et al 2013), as shown in Table 1. Finally, accountability for each risk in a complex contract is challenging for managers.…”

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confidence: 99%

Reflection on Integrity Management While Engaging with Third Parties in the Construction and Civil Engineering Industry

Roy

Desjardins

Ouellet-Plamondon

et al. 2021

J. Leg. Aff. Dispute Resolut. Eng. Constr.

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This reflection aims to investigate the integrity-related risks for companies engaging with third parties in the construction and civil engineering industry. The business partner compliance process of a multinational construction engineering company is assessed through internal interviews with integrity officers per business sector and per region in a static and dynamic strategy framework. The actual process is the internal evaluation of a ready-made tool bought from a service supplier that assess how the risks related to corruption are covered in order to determine the level of due diligence necessary when This material may be downloaded for personal use only. Any other use requires prior permission of the American Society of Civil Engineers. This material may be found at https://doi.org/10.1061/(ASCE)LA.1943-4170.0000435. engaging with a specific third party. This study finds that companies must involve their own experts to improve integrity tools. Collecting expert opinions on risk is necessary to allow an improved understanding of the scope of the tool. This study reflects on new ways for improving the integrity tool and demonstrates the necessity to cover risks not solely associated with Corruption & Bribery, but also with Human Rights, Conflict of Interest, Antitrust & Competition, as well as Compliance with Regulations to fully protect company's integrity.

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“…The majority of contractors involved in corrupt practices mentioned they don't want to involve with this attitude but because they feel they are forced by the way the industry and the political environment operate and act to them [28]- [29].…”

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Research on the Unethical Conducts and Practices among Professionals in the Construction Industry

Ibrahim

Hamzah²,

Azry³

2019

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Construction industry involved with large number of stakeholders. This industry has a complex contractual structure besides facing with several of psychological human behavior that exposed to the unethical conducts and practices among professionals. Professional ethics warmly has been discussed today within the construction industry. Ethics can be known as a major catalyst for the construction industry to attain status to a successful industry in the worldwide. As a result the aims to be a developed country can be achieved with cooperation from every structural in the construction community. However, without any changes on the unethical conducts and practices among professionals in the construction industry can make it all this becomes useless. Thus, the solid understandings and changes need to be executed, implemented and reinforced to ensure that the problems in the professional ethics can be resolved. This paper discusses and reviews on the unethical conducts and practices among professionals in the different countries such as Malaysia, Pakistan, Australia, Kenya, United Kingdom and China whereby the different behavior will be visible. The most common highlighted for the unethical conducts and practices among professionals in the construction industry were the corruption, negligence, unfair conduct, overriding on audit process over contracting process, favoritism, strict rule, conflict of interest, collusive tendering and violation of environmental ethics. In the previous studies, there were mechanism suggested whereby they are divided into three mechanisms included short, medium and long term solutions based on the project factors which are time, cost and quality. The mechanisms suggested can be catalyst in achieving and enhancing ethical conducts and practices among the professional in the construction industry. This review will provide useful information to every stakeholder in confronting with the unethical conducts and practices among professionals in the construction industry involved

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Behavioural Factors of Corruption in the Construction Industry

Cited by 32 publications

References 19 publications

Accounting Students’ Awareness TowardsFraud Prevention: A Case Of Government-Linked University

Accounting Students’ Awareness TowardsFraud Prevention: A Case Of Government-Linked University

Reflection on Integrity Management While Engaging with Third Parties in the Construction and Civil Engineering Industry

Research on the Unethical Conducts and Practices among Professionals in the Construction Industry

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