Design and validation of a corruption prevention model in construction projects of government agencies

Subject Areas : Policy making, Human resource Management, Transformation Management, Organizational Behavior Management, Adaptive Management and Development

Seyyed Saeed Khodaparast Moghaddam ¹ , Hamid Rezaiefar ² , Mehdi Mahmoodzadeh ³ , Mohammad Mohammadi ⁴

1 - PhD student, Department of Management, Bi.C. , Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran.
2 - Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Bi.C. , Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran.
3 - Assistant Professor, Department of Management, Bi.C. , Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran.
4 - Assistant Professor, Department of Management, B.C. , Islamic Azad University, Birjand, Iran.

Received: 2025-08-14 Accepted : 2025-09-28 Published : 2025-11-16

Keywords: Corruption prevention, development projects, administrative corruption,

Abstract :

Corruption, as one of the chronic and pervasive challenges globally, has widespread destructive consequences on economic development, social justice, and public trust in government institutions.The aim of this research is to design and validate a corruption prevention model in construction projects of government agencies. The research method is mixed. The research method in the qualitative part is the type of content analysis. The participants in the qualitative part include 12 professors of management, senior managers and inspectors of government agencies in South Khorasan, who are university professors with an academic orientation in organizational behavior and human resources, psychology, law and sociology with an assistant professor rank and above and a teaching experience of at least 10 years. The sampling method is purposive and snowball. Also, the number of statistical population in the validation part of the model includes all employees of the South Khorasan Road and Urban Development Department, 180 people, of whom 108 people were selected as a statistical sample by simple random method according to the Morgan table. The research findings have shown that the corruption prevention model in construction projects in government organizations includes 4 comprehensive themes: soundness of plan preparation, soundness of plan implementation, supervision of plan implementation and evaluation of construction projects. There are also 14 organizing themes, namely: the health of fundamental and research studies, the health of technical criteria and standards, the health of project quality, the health of tender and transaction execution, the health of delegation of authority, the health of public participation, supervision of materials and equipment, supervision of economic factors, transparency and accountability, technical and technical supervision, audit supervision, ethical evaluation, human resources evaluation, and final project evaluation. The findings of the quantitative section show that the model has the necessary validity.

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