Discussion of “Influence of Perceived Fairness on Contractors’ Potential to Dispute: Moderating Effect of Engineering Ethics” by Ahsen Maqsoom, Saifullah Jan Wazir, Rafiq M. Choudhry, Muhammad Jamaluddin Thaheem, and Hafiz Zahoor

The discussers congratulate the authors for their efforts in attempting to utilize the various organizational justice theories to explain how engineering ethics moderate the relationship between perceived fairness and contractors’ potential to dispute. Their methodology entailed a survey of 90  contract/claim
administrators working in the construction industry in Pakistan. Using partial least-squares structural equation modeling, their findings suggest that engineering ethics positively moderated the relationship between perceived quality of treatment experienced and contractors’ potential to dispute. The findings also indicate that engineering ethics did not moderate the five hypothesized relationships between outcome favorability, perceived decision outcome fairness, perceived procedural fairness, perceived quality of the decision-making process and perceived control, and reduced potential to dispute (RPD). Hence, only one out of the six moderating relationships was supported.