SIGNIFICANCE OF ETHICS EDUCATION AND TRAINING FOR CONSTRUCTION PROFESSIONALS

Abstract

Maintaining high ethical standards amongst construction professions is crucial to the development of construction industry in Malaysia. Construction professionals must face challenges in the industry with ethical conducts and practices. However, the learning process for construction professionals emphasised on technical and performance knowledge with less regards on internalisation of ethics. Hence, the aim of this paper is to investigate the significance of ethics education and training for construction professionals. This is carried out through literature review of previous authors. From the literature review, it is shown that ethics education at elementary school and undergraduate levels for construction programs at colleges/universities, and supported by ethics training by professional bodies are significant to form the nucleus for construction professionals’ moral setting in order to face the challenges of the industry.