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Effects of unethical behavior among professionals in Klang valley construction industry

Professionals are integral to the project. However, conflicts of interest among professional such as clients and contractors, project managers, architects play an important role in unethical practices that have an adverse effect in the construction industry. Therefore, this study aims to identify th...

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Main Authors: Woei Lynn, Sarah Wong, Md Noh, Nur Ilya Farhana, Surol, Salihah, Zakiah, Ahmad, Lin, Ng Jing, Chaia, Lee Jin, Syamsunur, Deprizon, Al-Mansob, Ramez, Razman, Ruzaimah
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Published: UKM Press 2022
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TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
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spelling my.iium.irep.1001172022-09-21T07:30:03Z http://irep.iium.edu.my/100117/ Effects of unethical behavior among professionals in Klang valley construction industry Woei Lynn, Sarah Wong Md Noh, Nur Ilya Farhana Surol, Salihah Zakiah, Ahmad Lin, Ng Jing Chaia, Lee Jin Syamsunur, Deprizon Al-Mansob, Ramez Razman, Ruzaimah TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General) Professionals are integral to the project. However, conflicts of interest among professional such as clients and contractors, project managers, architects play an important role in unethical practices that have an adverse effect in the construction industry. Therefore, this study aims to identify the effects of unethical issues that occur among the professionals in Klang Valley construction industry. The data collection has been conducted via questionnaire survey and has been analyzed using SPSS. Most respondents agree that “Delay of construction project” is the main effect of unethical behavior with a mean of 4.36 and SD= 0.848. When a project is delayed, it would cause major problems such as project abandonment, cost overrun, conflicts against parties and poor-quality works. This is because a project depends on the cost and time in order to be completed. Furthermore, a delayed project leads to a rushed project that will cause defective works. Frequent maintenance will be needed for repairing works, thus increasing the cost to bear in the project itself. Lastly, it is recommended that the timeframe for future studies should be increased to allow researchers to have sufficient time to collect more data in order to improve the accuracy and reliability of data collected. UKM Press 2022-09-30 Article PeerReviewed application/pdf en http://irep.iium.edu.my/100117/2/100117_Effects%20of%20unethical%20behavior%20among%20professionals.pdf Woei Lynn, Sarah Wong and Md Noh, Nur Ilya Farhana and Surol, Salihah and Zakiah, Ahmad and Lin, Ng Jing and Chaia, Lee Jin and Syamsunur, Deprizon and Al-Mansob, Ramez and Razman, Ruzaimah (2022) Effects of unethical behavior among professionals in Klang valley construction industry. Jurnal Kejuruteraan, 34 (5). pp. 831-835. ISSN 0128-0198 E-ISSN 2289-7526 http://www.ukm.my/jkukm/wp-content/uploads/2022/3405/09.pdf
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topic TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
spellingShingle TA Engineering (General). Civil engineering (General)
Woei Lynn, Sarah Wong
Md Noh, Nur Ilya Farhana
Surol, Salihah
Zakiah, Ahmad
Lin, Ng Jing
Chaia, Lee Jin
Syamsunur, Deprizon
Al-Mansob, Ramez
Razman, Ruzaimah
Effects of unethical behavior among professionals in Klang valley construction industry
description Professionals are integral to the project. However, conflicts of interest among professional such as clients and contractors, project managers, architects play an important role in unethical practices that have an adverse effect in the construction industry. Therefore, this study aims to identify the effects of unethical issues that occur among the professionals in Klang Valley construction industry. The data collection has been conducted via questionnaire survey and has been analyzed using SPSS. Most respondents agree that “Delay of construction project” is the main effect of unethical behavior with a mean of 4.36 and SD= 0.848. When a project is delayed, it would cause major problems such as project abandonment, cost overrun, conflicts against parties and poor-quality works. This is because a project depends on the cost and time in order to be completed. Furthermore, a delayed project leads to a rushed project that will cause defective works. Frequent maintenance will be needed for repairing works, thus increasing the cost to bear in the project itself. Lastly, it is recommended that the timeframe for future studies should be increased to allow researchers to have sufficient time to collect more data in order to improve the accuracy and reliability of data collected.
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author Woei Lynn, Sarah Wong
Md Noh, Nur Ilya Farhana
Surol, Salihah
Zakiah, Ahmad
Lin, Ng Jing
Chaia, Lee Jin
Syamsunur, Deprizon
Al-Mansob, Ramez
Razman, Ruzaimah
author_facet Woei Lynn, Sarah Wong
Md Noh, Nur Ilya Farhana
Surol, Salihah
Zakiah, Ahmad
Lin, Ng Jing
Chaia, Lee Jin
Syamsunur, Deprizon
Al-Mansob, Ramez
Razman, Ruzaimah
author_sort Woei Lynn, Sarah Wong
title Effects of unethical behavior among professionals in Klang valley construction industry
title_short Effects of unethical behavior among professionals in Klang valley construction industry
title_full Effects of unethical behavior among professionals in Klang valley construction industry
title_fullStr Effects of unethical behavior among professionals in Klang valley construction industry
title_full_unstemmed Effects of unethical behavior among professionals in Klang valley construction industry
title_sort effects of unethical behavior among professionals in klang valley construction industry
publisher UKM Press
publishDate 2022
url http://irep.iium.edu.my/100117/2/100117_Effects%20of%20unethical%20behavior%20among%20professionals.pdf
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