Quality is always related to ethical behaviour where one should do right things as it is effective to mend competitiveness, reduce costs, and fulfil customer’s satisfaction (Besterfield & Dale, 2003). According to George (1990) as cited from Everingham & London (2006), ethics is a systematic attempt to make sense of individual and social moral experience, in a ways to determine the rules that ought to govern human conduct. Therefore, most of the individuals involved in the construction industry are not practicing good ethics practices. Those individuals are immoral and selfish as they only think on how to satisfy their desires. Consequences of unethical practices in the construction industry are severe. It is not only chucks the company’s profit but also leads to poor quality of the construction work as it causes harms to human …show more content…
Ethics can be important in many fields including project management. Ethics also always described as “doing right thing” and it is measured based on the degree of the trustworthiness and integrity in by which companies and individual conduct business (Mason, 2009). Conferring to the previous study from Mason (2009), he proposed that ethics are concerned about trustworthy and integrity for the customers especially in business. However, ethics are very important in construction field as well because in terms of managing projects, ethics play important roles to gain trustworthy from stakeholders. Stakeholders by mean are the person involves direct or indirectly in an organization and affect the organization’s objectives. Ethics are related to ethical behaviour in which described oneself “good” or “right” behaviour in philosophy. According to Bommer, Gratto, Gravander & Tuttle (1987), ethical behaviours are explained as those behaviours the correctness by which constitutes the moral intuition in business and the professions. This explanation is about individual who are having a right behaviour will show a good image on behalf of the professions that they have as their careers. In construction industry, a project manager should have a good behaviour as he/she represents the company’s image and to endure he/she reputation as an ethical project