TY - JOUR AU - Mohd Nordin, Rumaizah AU - Takim, Roshana AU - Nawawi, Abdul Hadi PY - 2018/05/19 Y2 - 2024/03/28 TI - Behavioural Issues Causative to Corruption JF - Asian Journal of Behavioural Studies JA - AjBeS VL - 3 IS - 11 SE - Articles DO - 10.21834/ajbes.v3i11.96 UR - https://ajbes.e-iph.co.uk/index.php/ajbes/article/view/96 SP - 1-13 AB - <a style="cursor: pointer;" href="https://crossmark.crossref.org/dialog?doi=10.21834/ajbes.v3i11.96&amp;domain=ajbes.e-iph.co.uk&amp;uri_scheme=http;cm_version=v2.0" data-target="crossmark"><img src="/xmark.jpg" alt="" /></a><p class="AMERTextBody">Construction industry is fragmented, involves various stakeholders with a complex contractual structure, and variety of psychological human behaviours that expose to corrupt activities. Corruption is a deviant behaviour which deviates from normal duties of a public role, pecuniary, and violates official ethics of public services. The objective of this paper is to investigate the behavioural factors that lead to corruption in construction based on the ‘Model of Corrupt Action’. Three methods of data collections (i.e., interviews, workshop and questionnaire) are employed to derive to the solutions. The results showed that ‘desire’ and ‘intentions’ are the significant behavioural factors to corrupt actions.</p><p>Keywords: Behaviour, corruption, construction environment </p><p class="eIPH-AbstractCopyright"><em>eISSN</em><em> 2398-4295 © 2018. The Authors. Published for AMER ABRA cE-Bs by e-International Publishing House, Ltd., UK. This is an open-access article under the CC BY-NC-ND license (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc-nd/4.0/). Peer–review under responsibility of AMER (Association of Malaysian Environment-Behaviour Researchers), ABRA (Association of Behavioural Researchers on Asians) and cE-Bs (Centre for Environment-Behaviour Studies), Faculty of Architecture, Planning &amp; Surveying, Universiti Teknologi MARA, Malaysia. </em></p><p class="eIPH-AbstractCopyright"><em></em>http://dx.doi.org/10.21834/ajbes.v3i11.96</p> ER -