Professionals’ Ambivalence toward Ethics in the Nigerian Construction Industry

Ameh, Oko John; Odusami, K. T.

doi:10.1061/(asce)1052-3928(2010)136:1(9)

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“…It is described in various local parlance as greasing, softening the ground, inducements, sub-payments, side payments, irregular payments, payment under the table, undocumented extra payments, facilitation payments, mobilisation fees, routine governmental action, revised estimates, padded contracts, over (under)-invoicing, cash commissions, kickbacks, payoffs, covert exchanges, shady deals, cover-ups (Obayelu, 2007). As a consequence, Ameh and Odusami (2010) perceive that the international community views corruption and other unethical issues as common occurrences at all stages of the Nigerian workforce. With all these, it appears that Nigeria has failed to attain its economic potentials and corruption may be ascribed as one of the major factors aiding the country's limited infrastructure development and high rate of project failure.…”

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Project Failure: The Way forward and Panacea for Development

Zuofa¹,

Ochieng²

2014

IJBM

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There is an unambiguous relationship between development and the successful execution of projects as well as societal wellbeing. This paper examined the concept of project failure. The rationale was to identify the main factors responsible for project failure and suggest strategies aimed at curbing project failure and facilitating development in the future. Data was obtained from a focus group comprising of eight project management practitioners in Nigeria. The results were recorded, transcribed and entered into the qualitative research software NVivo. Validity and reliability were achieved by first assessing the plausibility in terms of already existing knowledge on some of the issues raised by the focus group participants. The emerging key issues suggested that project failure may be contingent on several factors but established based on consensus that corruption and lack of professionalism were among the main causes of project failure in Nigeria. The main results were further synthesised into action points which included: the need for an introduction of governance mechanism to incorporate processes standard guidelines that supports projects to achieve their objectives, enshrining punitive actions against erring project stakeholders who engage in corrupt and unethical practices.

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Project Failure: The Way forward and Panacea for Development

Zuofa¹,

Ochieng²

2014

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“…While it is known that unethical practices are endemic in the Nigerian construction industry (Al-sweity 2013; Ameh & Odusami 2010a), studies focusing primarily on the prevalence of unethical tendering practices in Nigeria are hard to come by. Likewise, the stage of tendering that is most vulnerable to unethical practices by procurement officers is yet to be identified.…”

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“…In Nigeria, however, it is also important to compare the prevalence of corruption between federal and state governments. Previous studies in the context of this research (notably Alutu 2007;Ameh & Odusami 2010a, 2010b did not concentrate on this area.…”

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A comparison of prevalence of unethical tendering practices at national and subnational levels in Nigeria

Ogbu¹,

Asuquo

2018

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Nigeria has recently renewed efforts towards stamping out corruption in every area of its national life. Given that construction procurement is particularly prone to corrupt practices, this study investigated the prevalence of unethical tendering practices in the Nigerian public sector. In particular, a comparison to bare the similarities or differences in the prevalence of unethical tendering practices at national and subnational levels is scarcely available in literature. This study’s objective was to determine and compare the prevalence of unethical tendering practices at the national and subnational levels in Nigeria. The data analysis was based on 120 acceptably filled questionnaires obtained from contractor, client and consultant organisations previously involved in public sector projects. The unethical tendering practices were analysed using prevalence indices and Mann–Whitney U tests. Findings include that the three most prevalent unethical tendering practices are contractor-based, namely: (1) competitors offer bribes to gain access to confidential tendering information (C1); (2) competitors overstate their capacity, experience and qualifications to secure construction contracts (C2); (3) the same owner(s) use different firms to tender for the same project (C3), in descending order of prevalence. No significant difference exists between unethical tendering practices in federal and state government projects. The findings of the study will help the Nigerian government and other stakeholders to better understand unethical practices at the tender stage of construction procurement in the public sector and to evolve better strategies for dealing with them. The study contributes to existing knowledge by separately identifying the prevalent unethical tendering practices in the Nigerian context and comparing unethical tendering practices at national and subnational levels within a country

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“…One of the deters of meaningful development in the Nigerian Construction Industry is the menace of corruption and corrupt practices. Ameh and Odusami (2010a) submitted that the international community viewed corruption and other unethical issues as common occurrences at all stages of the Nigerian workforce considering the recent incessant rankings by the TI. TI (CPI, 2007) 2003, 2004, 2005, 2006, and 2007, respectively.…”

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Determinants of Unethical Performance in Nigerian Construction Industry

Oyewobi¹,

Ganiyu²,

Oke³

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Unethical performance is an impediment for economic development and good governance. It is more than true to say it is the bane of development in developing nations of the world under which Nigeria is categorized. The construction sector was highlighted for its practices in areas such as bribery, environmental destruction, capital flight, dangerous practices, poor quality, whistle blowing, etc. and it is also associated with unethical behaviour through the entire construction life cycle. This paper therefore, x-rayed the determinants of unethical performance in Nigerian construction industry with a view to identifying the causes in all the stages of building project. Well structured questionnaires were self administered to direct stakeholder involved in the execution of building projects considered for this research work. Literature review revealed that corruption is evident in the construction industry which causes a lot of setback to project such as abandonment of such project and if complete may be completed below standard. Data were presented and analyzed using non parametric statistic; tools used were Severity indices and Relative importance index rather than mean scores since the data were ordinal in nature. It was observed that the building construction industry is perceived to be more susceptible to ethical problems because of several features and that corruption has effect on all stages of construction right from Planning, Tender stage to Completion stage. It was recommended that viable legislation as a mechanism to deal with small levels of corruption by strengthening professional institutions that will punish erring members will prevent corruption to a certain degree; and enforcement and monitoring measures of anti corruption agencies is believed can enhance transparency, accountability and reduced unethical behavior, and this will create an enabling environment possible for the industry to thrive, operate, and improve on quality and quantity of infrastructure on a more sustainable basis and thereby foster good construction practice ethics.

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Professionals’ Ambivalence toward Ethics in the Nigerian Construction Industry

Cited by 51 publications

References 10 publications

Project Failure: The Way forward and Panacea for Development

Project Failure: The Way forward and Panacea for Development

A comparison of prevalence of unethical tendering practices at national and subnational levels in Nigeria

Determinants of Unethical Performance in Nigerian Construction Industry

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