Abstract
Ethical practices are norms that are accepted and should be adopted in institutions to ensure a flawless procurement management process. The procurement system varies depending on the organisation in a major way due to the fact that most projects are donor-funded, thus creating inconsistency in public schools. This study aimed to determine the relationship between ethical principles and procurement management in selected public secondary schools in Kericho County. The study was guided by the following theories deontological theory and virtue ethical theory. The study adopted a correlation research design. The target population used 220 public secondary schools, which comprised of 1100 tendering committees. The study used stratified and simple random sampling techniques to sample the school. The sample size was 294 respondents, which were derived using Yamane’s formula. Questionnaires were used for data collection. It is hoped that the findings of the study may benefit school management, scholars, policymakers, and other stakeholders. Descriptive and inferential methods were utilised for data analysis and presentation. ANOVA results indicated that ethical principles had a significant relationship with procurement management (p < 0.05). Ethical principles should be adhered to since it has improved procurement management significantly. Therefore, there is a need to tighten internal control systems in detecting procurement corruption and fraud to ensure integrity in the process.
Highlights
Ethics plays a very important role in the business environment which may cause an impact on the public and on the brand of the company
The findings indicated that the public hospitals review procurement policies frequently
This study focused on procurement performance, while the current study focused on procurement management
Summary
Ethics plays a very important role in the business environment which may cause an impact on the public and on the brand of the company. Ethics in procurement should be adhered to so as to avoid related ethical consequences. A monopoly should not be practised in the procurement process. For organisations to achieve value for money and contribute to efficient service delivery, public procurement practice must adopt a strong ethical stand. The way to address these concerns is by adopting a strong sense of ethics such as avoiding collusion, discouraging fake competition, removing any arbitrariness from the bid evaluation process, ensuring that the goods and services received reflect the precise quantities delivered and using slicing to avoid adopting the appropriate procurement method (Leenders et al, 2014)
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