Study on effect of anti-bribery management system to the quality of authority organization operational management in construction industry

Abstract

Unethical behaviours are quite common in the construction industries. This study aims to assess the impact of unethical behaviours within organization, and the effectiveness of implementing Anti-Bribery Management System (ABMS) within organization. Among many of the government organizations, the main target respondents for this study were workers such as consultants and contractors who had worked with organization ’B’. The organization is called as Organization ’B’ as this topic research might be sensitive. In this study, distribution of questionnaires via online platform was used as a quantitative method where a total of 54 respondents out of 146 expected sample sizes were obtained. Majority of the respondents are agreeable towards the unethical behaviour will contribute to lower the quality of their works as the mean value is greater than 4.0. Plus, the implementing of ABMS are also shows positive impact in the quality of their works as the mean value is also greater than 4.0. From overall respondents, the top 3 variables for unethical behaviour are ’Hard Control Measures’, ’Conflict of Interest’, and ’Lack Supervision’. As for the implementation of ABMS, the top 3 variables are ’ABMS Qualification’, ’Leadership’, and ’Policies and Procedures’.