Importance of Professionalism and Ethics in Construction Management - Mace Group Ltd

This article discusses the importance of professionalism and ethics in construction management with Mace Group Ltd. It covers the roles and responsibilities of stakeholders, leadership and corporate governance, and the incorporation of codes of conduct and professional standards. The article also highlights the moral and ethical responsibility of the organisation and the importance of professional bodies in improving professionalism within the organisation.

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Table of Contents
PART 1 ...........................................................................................................................................3
PART 2 ...........................................................................................................................................4
INTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................4
An overview of the organisation , the type of business and the area in which it operates
including the roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders...................................................4
Discuss the moral and ethical responsibility of the organisation...........................................5
Discuss the importance of leadership and corporate governance in the organisation ...........6
Highlights the importance of professional bodies and code of conducts...............................7
Identify at least one relevant professional body which improves the professionalism within the
organisation as well as discuss how this positively influences an organisation.....................7
Discuss how code of conduct and professional standards have been incorporated within the
organisation. ..........................................................................................................................8
CONCLUSION................................................................................................................................9
REFERENCES:.............................................................................................................................10
Books and Journals...............................................................................................................10

PART 1
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PART 2
INTRODUCTION
Preparing for professional career is termed as developing skills, knowledge and
behaviour in a particular field in order to get better job opportunities. The selected professional
area is construction management which required proper or technical skills addition to ethical
behaviour (Fletcher, Warren, and Hernández-Gantes, 2018). Professional skills includes various
skills such as communication, management, leadership, decision-making and analytical skills.
Whereas, ethical behaviours includes code of conducts, honesty, trust, kindness, respectfulness,
integrity as well as fairness to perform a specific job role effectively. It also consists
responsibility, honesty, transparency and accountability in regard to developing quality
perforation in an construction organisation. MACE organisation is taken to be considered to
define the concept of codes of ethics in construction industry. It is a consultancy and construction
company situated in UK.
The aim to this project to highlights the understanding of morale and ethics in business
and knowledge of an area of professional practice with in an organisation. Further It covers the
importance of leadership and corporate governance in an construction organisation. At last It
covers understanding of core aspects of operating in a professional way addition to knowledge of
how to produce a CPD plan.
An overview of the organisation , the type of business and the area in which it operates including
the roles and responsibilities of the stakeholders
The selected organisation is Mace Group Ltd which is also known as Mace. It is a
construction and consultancy firm located in London, UK. It was established by Stephen Pycroft
and Mark Reynolds in 1990 to provide business and construction services. There is around 5,000
employees who works for the growth of company (Lent, 2018). Mace stands for making airport
construction expensive addition to The values of Mace is create opportunity, integrity, safety
first and client focus. It is most commonly known as global leaders in constructing the build
environment. Form consultancy and development to operations and construction they link
expertise among the whole property life cycle to aid their people, clients, customers, society and

communities to achieve more which they believe is possible. The vision of company is to leading
in a manner to resilient, more connected as well as sustainable world. On the basis of
communities, people and society they took every challenges as big opportunities to bring
ambitions to life and dream bigger (Mace Group Ltd: Overview, 2022). The specialities of
company is project management, programme management, construction delivery, cost
consultancy as well as facilities management.
The role and responsibilities of the stakeholders
Mace stakeholders are directors, project managers, HR managers, executive, employees,
architect, designers, employees, workers, investors and many other who has interest in the
activities and operations of organisations (Loosemore and Malouf, 2019). The role and
responsibilities of these stakeholders are to provide proper instruction about each projects to
maintain sustainability addition to allow them to participate in decision making. Responsibilities
of employees are to work in a systematic manner as per the plan and guidelines of project to
complete it on time. The responsibilities of project manager is to managing the task, coordination
and development by implementing community relations, stakeholder relations, strategic plans,
communications and advocacy in organisation. Communicating with all external and internal
stakeholder of a construction project consisting government department, local authorities and
many more. Responsibilities of directors is liaising and interfacing with many parties to make
sure effective project completion, integrating with public sector and assuring community
engagement (Mooney and Jameson, 2018). Role and responsibility of executive is to engaging
with potential stakeholders to make sure they are engaged as well as well informed in all stage of
project from planning to construction.
Discuss the moral and ethical responsibility of the organisation
Moral includes fairness, compassion, honesty, responsibility and respect. In Mace moral
refers to the healthy environment in organisation which allow people to interact respect and work
with each other to make a strong unit or team to achieve the sustainable goal effectively (Nnaji
and Karakhan, 2020). The values of company is to provide safety to their employees to they go

their home safely or well, it also motivate them to increase their skill or quality to make their
company more successful. The another value is to give full focus on clients needs to deliver best
which they promises them as well as increase their experience or loyalty towards company.
Moreover, they create opportunity for their employees for growth and development in future so
they increase their skills to face future challenges. They believe in doing the project in right or
systematic manner with integrity to meet the expectations of stakeholders.
Ethical responsibility at an organisation includes effective communication,
accountability, trust, professionalism, mutual respect, taking responsibility as well as obeying the
organisation's rules all these assures more productivity outcomes at organisation. In, MACE its
essential for them to fulfil all their ethical responsibilities to meet the desired sustainable goal of
organisation as well as create better environment for workers to increase their confidence and
performance (Ozturk, 2020). As in this project management allow workers to take participate in
planning and decision making. Also by respecting them and delegating proper power and
responsibilities to all employees they encouraged them to take challenges as an opportunities to
complete impossible project in effective manner. Strong transparency policies of board of
directors helps the company in safeguarding the moral and health of people. All employees,
board members and managers of Mace are accountable for direction and overall performance of
company. The board executives of Mace are focuses on long term goals, strategy to meet the
needs of clients without harming the environment and health of people.
Discuss the importance of leadership and corporate governance in the organisation
Leadership is most important aspects and term in construction industry like In Mace, it
plays a significant role in completion of project effectively on time (Rahman and Leifels, 2018).
Along with all leaders of each team like planning, designing, and constructing the effective
building of hospitals, hotel etc. are accountable for achieving the target of project with in time,
budget and standards. In order to meet the sustainable development of company every project
leaders guide, lead, manage, instruct their team member in a common direction to construct a
building without wasting resources. In Mace, the most effective leadership style is pacesetting
which can benefit leaders, project manager to set a pace for workers and employees to lead them
in right direction towards the achievement of company goals. As they set standards for workers

related to a construction site, quality, behaviours, performance which they want to deliver to
their clients to meet their needs (Sacks, Eastman and Teicholz, 2018).
Corporate governance is a concept which is important for Mace as it helps the board of
directors and management to formulate a system or policies of rules or practices that ascertain
organisation's process of aligning addition to operating interest of all key stakeholders. Good,
accountable, transparent as well as strong corporate governance help Mace to safeguard the
image of company. It allow the Mace to maintain its entrepreneurial spirit, agility as well as
provide future development opportunities to their employees. It helps the company to increase
their overall effectiveness and performance which leads to increase in the profitability, market
share and brand value (Safavi and Bouzari, 2019). It also influences the behaviour and
performance of employees, operations addition to development of company in competitive
market.
Highlights the importance of professional bodies and code of conducts
The importance and professional bodies as well as code of conducts in Mace are it helps
them to make their policies effectively. Code of conduct refers to the ethics, standards,
principles, expectations and moral which employees along with external stakeholder are held to
while interaction with organisation (Tanko, Ramly and Enegbuma, 2018). It is necessary in a
Mace due to it provide guidance to employees on how they must act and work while conducting
their practices to perform job role. Mace is a professional bodies which issuing code of conduct
and provide support for continuing professional development for directing the action and
behaviour of their employees in right direction. In relevance to Mace, professional bodies are
related with positive image of professionals and betterment of public. This type of bodies are
engaged in improvement of knowledge and practices of professionals by supporting, evolving ,
fostering addition to controlling professional ethics for technical and ethical competence.
Identify at least one relevant professional body which improves the professionalism within the
organisation as well as discuss how this positively influences an organisation
The professionals body of Mace is top management and executives helps in improving
professionalism within their organisation. They focuses on long-term process and strategy in
order to meet requirements of clients to increase their profitability. The board of directors of
Mace concentrated on structuring their business policies by discussing with three boards such as
development, consultancy and construction. It has impacted positivity the productivity and

profitability of company which foster their success addition to growth in future. All board
members are working to retain their clients for long run as well as engaged them toward the
activities or operations of company (Wehrle, Kira and Klehe, 2019). All these helps them to
deliver the best outcomes to their stakeholders which increase their trust and connection with
company. Code of conducts helps Mace to involve their employees by bringing more
professionalism which generate more understanding about the complexity of projects and sites in
order to add the value for clients.
Discuss how code of conduct and professional standards have been incorporated within the
organisation.
In order to incorporating professional standards and code of conduct at Mace, there is multiple
steps which are followed-
 At first step, professionals must collect ideas such as what conduct must include by
evaluating the values which are stated in their mission statement as well as create them a
important point of group action session.
 In second step. They must make a draft of code of conduct for the benefit for employees
which create favourable environment for them or value based statement that serve as a
guidance for them related to ideal behaviour or work (Xu and Adams, 2020). Rather than
providing a list of strict rule and regulations that should be obeyed by employees at all
cost.
 In third step board of directors on Mace must review and match the whole process of
code of conduct in order to ensure that it complies with plan which are made in first step.
The process of code of conduct development must overview and implement necessary
edits if needed.
In this step, the management must adopt the codes of conducts formally by presenting it
in front of directors of Mace for approval.
 In this step, to effective execute the code of conduct management of Mace must introduce
it before employees to follow in their working as soon as possible.
 At last step, they enforce the code of conduct in their organisation for efficient working.

CONCLUSION
As per above presented information, it has been concluded that it is important for an
employee, individual and organisation to follow code of conducts and ethical behaviour to
perform professional practices effectively. In construction management, ethical responsibility
includes effective communication, professionalism, safety, trust and fulfil all responsibility in
right manner. Leadership and corporate governance plays most important role in a company as it
helps the management to guide, lead, manage, direct and control the action and behaviour of
their employees in same direction towards the achievement of company goals. Codes of conduct
and professional bodies helps the company to motivate their employees so they conduct their
practices fairly and perform their duty with honesty by maintaining professionalism addition to
dignity. Professional bodies makes code of conduct in an organisation which foster the growth
and success in future as well as bring clarity among employees about their working.

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Mace Group Ltd: Overview, 2022. [Online]. Available through:
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