A fraud prevention policy: Its relevance and implication at a university of technology in South Africa
| Autor: | Amelia Rorwana, Robertson K. Tengeh, Tichaona Buzy Musikavanhu |
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| Jazyk: | angličtina |
| Rok vydání: | 2015 |
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Fraud Prevention
Research Grant Administrators Economics and Econometrics Public Administration lcsh:Organizational behaviour change and effectiveness. Corporate culture Strategy and Management South African Universities of Technology Public administration lcsh:HD58.7-58.95 Political science lcsh:Finance lcsh:HG1-9999 Relevance (information retrieval) Financial Fraud Business and International Management Finance |
| Zdroj: | Journal of Governance and Regulation, Vol 4, Iss 3-2, Pp 212-221 (2015) |
| ISSN: | 2306-6784 2220-9352 |
| Popis: | Using research grants administrators and their clients (academic researchers) as the lens, this paper investigated the relevance and implication of a fraud prevention policy at a University of Technology (UoT) in South Africa. The paper adopted a quantitative approach in which closed-ended questions were complemented by open-ended questions in the survey questionnaire in the attempt to capture the perceptions of both research grants administrators and their clients on the relevance and implications of a fraud and irregularity prevention policy. The results indicate that both research grants administrators (71.4 %), and their clients (73%) do not know if UoTx has a fraud and irregularity policy. While only 36% of research grants administrators indicated that they would feel safe reporting deceitful activities, a slight majority (59%) of the clients reported same. With regards to the steps to follow to report fraudulent activity, it was noted that while all (100%) the research grants administrators noted that they were clueless, ironically an overwhelming majority of their clients indicated otherwise. Notwithstanding, both research grants administrators and their clients (93% and 95% respectively) concurred that a fraud prevention policy was necessary for UoTx. The implication is that having phenomenal controls that are not effectively publicized, monitored or worse still overridden by someone are useless. |
| Databáze: | OpenAIRE |
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