Construction industry has been the most corrupt sector in most economies (Transparency International, 2002). This shows that construction industry becomes an industry with highest ethical issues in all countries included Malaysia. Mostly, these ethical issues happen among high level of the involvement in projects especially contractors.
2.5.1 Code of Conduct
Code of conduct is a central guide and orientation to support people in decision making. Code of conduct also involve in clarification of an organization’s mission, ethics and principles which related to the standards of professional conduct. The purposes of developing code of conduct is to raise ethical expectations, ethical issues are legitimized, ethical decision making encouragement and provide a basis in enforcement to avoid misconduct. These reasons proved that code of conduct should be implemented to encounter ethical issues in construction industry in Malaysia. This is because awareness of the importance in practising ethics among contractors is at the lowest level (West, Tan & Habermann , 2009). According to Ssegawa (2005), conflict of the code or malpractice that is illegal by law constitutes includes action or inaction is not tolerable in environment of business. Hence, any actions that are illegal cannot be tolerated not only in business but in any fields. Enactment of code of conduct is necessary as ethical issues getting worse. …show more content…
These countries succeed to prove that implementation of code of conduct can increase ethics among contractors such as discipline, accountability, transparency, responsibility and fairness. Therefore, Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) should enacts code of conduct to increase awareness of ethics practices and apply it in construction field in Malaysia.
2.5.2 Early
2.5.1 Code of Conduct
Code of conduct is a central guide and orientation to support people in decision making. Code of conduct also involve in clarification of an organization’s mission, ethics and principles which related to the standards of professional conduct. The purposes of developing code of conduct is to raise ethical expectations, ethical issues are legitimized, ethical decision making encouragement and provide a basis in enforcement to avoid misconduct. These reasons proved that code of conduct should be implemented to encounter ethical issues in construction industry in Malaysia. This is because awareness of the importance in practising ethics among contractors is at the lowest level (West, Tan & Habermann , 2009). According to Ssegawa (2005), conflict of the code or malpractice that is illegal by law constitutes includes action or inaction is not tolerable in environment of business. Hence, any actions that are illegal cannot be tolerated not only in business but in any fields. Enactment of code of conduct is necessary as ethical issues getting worse. …show more content…
These countries succeed to prove that implementation of code of conduct can increase ethics among contractors such as discipline, accountability, transparency, responsibility and fairness. Therefore, Construction Industry Development Board (CIDB) should enacts code of conduct to increase awareness of ethics practices and apply it in construction field in Malaysia.
2.5.2 Early