Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives

Building maintenance (BM) projects usually involve various technical individuals such as building managers, architects, and building contractors. These individuals are usually concerned with certain issues pertaining to their views and experiences on a range of ethical topics surrounding BM industry...

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Main Authors:	Diyana, Kamarudin, Mohammad Affendy, Omardin
Format:	Conference or Workshop Item
Language:	English
Published:	KnE Social Sciences 2019
Subjects:	HD Industries. Land use. Labor
Online Access:	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25820/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25820/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25820/1/Sustainability%20Ethics%20of%20Safety%20in%20the%20Building.pdf

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spelling	ump-258202019-11-19T08:11:20Z http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25820/ Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives Diyana, Kamarudin Mohammad Affendy, Omardin HD Industries. Land use. Labor Building maintenance (BM) projects usually involve various technical individuals such as building managers, architects, and building contractors. These individuals are usually concerned with certain issues pertaining to their views and experiences on a range of ethical topics surrounding BM industry activities. The issue of professional ethics plays an important role in quality-related problems in a BM project. Ethics is a vital component in producing a profitable long-term profit in the BM industry. This paper highlights the process practice of professional ethics and sustainability in the BM industry and how ethics influences the activities of BM projects. This qualitative case study recruited four (4) technical managers within the BM organisations. Data for this research were collected through semi-structured interviews with technical managers of the BM organisations. Results indicated that different types of unethical conducts impact BM tasks significantly. This study found that it is important to include professional ethics as a pre-requisite to attaining sustained and acceptable quality in BM. The study also suggests several approaches and methods enhance professionalism among BM professionals, which could help improve the quality in BM projects. The findings provide safety sustainability ethics process to BM organisation on how to address the ethical root issues when confronting the Malaysian BM industry. KnE Social Sciences 2019 Conference or Workshop Item PeerReviewed pdf en cc_by_4 http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25820/1/Sustainability%20Ethics%20of%20Safety%20in%20the%20Building.pdf Diyana, Kamarudin and Mohammad Affendy, Omardin (2019) Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives. In: KnE Social Sciences: FGIC 2nd Conference on Governance and Integrity 2019, 19-20 August 2019 , Yayasan Pahang, Kuantan, Pahang, Malaysia. pp. 1036-1045.. ISSN 2518-668X https://doi.org/10.18502/kss.v3i22.5109
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spellingShingle	HD Industries. Land use. Labor Diyana, Kamarudin Mohammad Affendy, Omardin Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives
description	Building maintenance (BM) projects usually involve various technical individuals such as building managers, architects, and building contractors. These individuals are usually concerned with certain issues pertaining to their views and experiences on a range of ethical topics surrounding BM industry activities. The issue of professional ethics plays an important role in quality-related problems in a BM project. Ethics is a vital component in producing a profitable long-term profit in the BM industry. This paper highlights the process practice of professional ethics and sustainability in the BM industry and how ethics influences the activities of BM projects. This qualitative case study recruited four (4) technical managers within the BM organisations. Data for this research were collected through semi-structured interviews with technical managers of the BM organisations. Results indicated that different types of unethical conducts impact BM tasks significantly. This study found that it is important to include professional ethics as a pre-requisite to attaining sustained and acceptable quality in BM. The study also suggests several approaches and methods enhance professionalism among BM professionals, which could help improve the quality in BM projects. The findings provide safety sustainability ethics process to BM organisation on how to address the ethical root issues when confronting the Malaysian BM industry.
format	Conference or Workshop Item
author	Diyana, Kamarudin Mohammad Affendy, Omardin
author_facet	Diyana, Kamarudin Mohammad Affendy, Omardin
author_sort	Diyana, Kamarudin
title	Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives
title_short	Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives
title_full	Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives
title_fullStr	Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives
title_full_unstemmed	Sustainability Ethics of Safety in the Building Maintenance Industry: Technical Manager’s Perspectives
title_sort	sustainability ethics of safety in the building maintenance industry: technical manager’s perspectives
publisher	KnE Social Sciences
publishDate	2019
url	http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25820/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25820/ http://umpir.ump.edu.my/id/eprint/25820/1/Sustainability%20Ethics%20of%20Safety%20in%20the%20Building.pdf
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