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Ethical Directions and Cultural Dimensions of Construction Professionals in Malaysia: With a Framework of Ethical Decision Making

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Corporate ethics and business ethics are becoming new requirements for a successful business in the 21^st century. This trend continues to be strengthened throughout the industries and the construction industry cannot be exceptional. This research provides a practical framework of ethical decision making for construction together with the perceptions of construction professionals in respect to ethics and culture. A project factor approach is incorporated in the framework to reflect the unique feature of construction. The framework is based on Agent (virtue ethics) - Action (deontology) Results (consequentialism) model and the stakeholder concept of construction projects. The framework also intends to identify the ethical directions either mean-oriented or end-oriented. The effectiveness of the framework has been proved through a survey with construction professionals in Malaysia. The survey also includes cultural dimensions as ethic is a subset of culture. The outcomes of the survey shows that the construction professional in Malaysia are slightly more mean-oriented than end-oriented, and their cultural dimensions are more power oriented (PDI), more individualistic (IDV) and more masculine (MAS) compared to the Malaysia national level cultural dimensions.

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Advanced Materials Research (Volumes 838-841)

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2875-2882

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https://doi.org/10.4028/www.scientific.net/AMR.838-841.2875

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November 2013

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Byung Gyoo Kang*, Keh Vin Yee, Boon Hoe Goh, Wee Kang Choong, Tuck Wai Yeong

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Construction, Culture, Decision-Making, Ethics

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