Transparency Initiative for Enhancing QoL: Behavioural components leading to corruption

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Roshana Takim
Shazwan Mohamed Shaari
Rumaizah Mohd Nordin

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Transparency is an essential precondition for containing corruption. Construction is prone to corruption as it involves a large number of participants. Corruption is a deviant behaviour of an individual that should be looked into. The objective of this paper is to study the behavioural factors that lead to corrupt acts based on the Model of Corrupt Action. Questionnaire survey is utilised to derive to the solution. The results show that behavioural factors concerning the achievement of a certain goal do not predict corrupt action but the desire factors represent an important antecedent of intention by which a strong predictor of particular behaviour.

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Takim, R., Mohamed Shaari, S. and Mohd Nordin, R. 2018. Transparency Initiative for Enhancing QoL: Behavioural components leading to corruption. Asian Journal of Quality of Life. 3, 9 (Jan. 2018), 195–206. DOI:https://doi.org/10.21834/ajqol.v3i9.90.

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