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Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives

Building maintenance (BM) projects usually involve various technical individuals such as building managers, architects, and building contractors. These individuals are usually concerned with certain issues pertaining to their views and experiences on a range of ethical topics surrounding BM industry...

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Main Authors: Diyana, Kamarudin, Mohammad Affendy, Omardin
Format: Conference or Workshop Item
Language:English
Published: KnE Social Sciences 2019
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HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Online Access:http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25820/1/Sustainability%20Ethics%20of%20Safety%20in%20the%20Building.pdf
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https://doi.org/10.18502/kss.v3i22.5109
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spelling my.ump.umpir.258202019-11-19T08:11:20Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25820/ Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives Diyana, Kamarudin Mohammad Affendy, Omardin HD Industries. Land use. Labor Building maintenance (BM) projects usually involve various technical individuals such as building managers, architects, and building contractors. These individuals are usually concerned with certain issues pertaining to their views and experiences on a range of ethical topics surrounding BM industry activities. The issue of professional ethics plays an important role in quality-related problems in a BM project. Ethics is a vital component in producing a profitable long-term profit in the BM industry. This paper highlights the process practice of professional ethics and sustainability in the BM industry and how ethics influences the activities of BM projects. This qualitative case study recruited four (4) technical managers within the BM organisations. Data for this research were collected through semi-structured interviews with technical managers of the BM organisations. Results indicated that different types of unethical conducts impact BM tasks significantly. This study found that it is important to include professional ethics as a pre-requisite to attaining sustained and acceptable quality in BM. The study also suggests several approaches and methods enhance professionalism among BM professionals, which could help improve the quality in BM projects. The findings provide safety sustainability ethics process to BM organisation on how to address the ethical root issues when confronting the Malaysian BM industry. KnE Social Sciences 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25820/1/Sustainability%20Ethics%20of%20Safety%20in%20the%20Building.pdf Diyana, Kamarudin and Mohammad Affendy, Omardin (2019) Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives. In: KnE Social Sciences: FGIC 2nd Conference on Governance and Integrity 2019, 19-20 August 2019 , Yayasan Pahang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. pp. 1036-1045.. ISSN 2518-668X https://doi.org/10.18502/kss.v3i22.5109
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topic HD Industries. Land use. Labor
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Diyana, Kamarudin
Mohammad Affendy, Omardin
Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives
description Building maintenance (BM) projects usually involve various technical individuals such as building managers, architects, and building contractors. These individuals are usually concerned with certain issues pertaining to their views and experiences on a range of ethical topics surrounding BM industry activities. The issue of professional ethics plays an important role in quality-related problems in a BM project. Ethics is a vital component in producing a profitable long-term profit in the BM industry. This paper highlights the process practice of professional ethics and sustainability in the BM industry and how ethics influences the activities of BM projects. This qualitative case study recruited four (4) technical managers within the BM organisations. Data for this research were collected through semi-structured interviews with technical managers of the BM organisations. Results indicated that different types of unethical conducts impact BM tasks significantly. This study found that it is important to include professional ethics as a pre-requisite to attaining sustained and acceptable quality in BM. The study also suggests several approaches and methods enhance professionalism among BM professionals, which could help improve the quality in BM projects. The findings provide safety sustainability ethics process to BM organisation on how to address the ethical root issues when confronting the Malaysian BM industry.
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author Diyana, Kamarudin
Mohammad Affendy, Omardin
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Mohammad Affendy, Omardin
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title Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives
title_short Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives
title_full Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives
title_fullStr Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives
title_full_unstemmed Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives
title_sort sustainability ethics of safety in the building maintenance industry: technical manager’s perspectives
publisher KnE Social Sciences
publishDate 2019
url http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25820/1/Sustainability%20Ethics%20of%20Safety%20in%20the%20Building.pdf
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