HAMMED, Olawale Gazal, et. al. International Journal of Engineering Research and Applications www.ijera.com ISSN: 2248-9622, Vol. 11, Issue 8, (Series-III) August 2021, pp. 25-31 www.ijera.com DOI: 10.9790/9622-1108032531 25 | Page Relationship between Project Management Ethics and Project Success: A Case of Total Quality Engineering Service Limited Nigeria. HAMMED, Olawale Gazal Department of Management Technology, Faculty of Management Sciences, Lagos State University, Lagos Nigeria Adeoye Adewolu Department of Architecture, College of Environmental Sciences Bells University of Technology, Ota, Ogun State, Nigeria BAKARE, Abayomi Akeem Department of Management Technology, Faculty of Management Sciences Lagos State University, Lagos Nigeria Correspondent author: HAMMED, Olawale Gazal ABSTRACT This study evaluated the relationship between of Project Management Ethics and Project Success of Total Quality Engineering Service Limited in Nigeria”. Survey research design was adopted for the study, using a close-ended questionnaire for the data collection. Accidental and purposive sampling techniques were used for the selection of the sample size from the finite population,56 questionnaires were distributed while 47 were returned. The data was analyzed using mean and standard deviation to reveal the relationship between the variables used in the research question. From the findings of this study, it was revealed that project management ethics was one of the major determinants of project success. Therefore, it was recommended among others that the construction organization must apply the principle of honesty and fairness to promotes relationship of co- workers and clients. KEYWORDS: Project management ethics, Integrity, Confidentiality of information and Project success --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- Date of Submission: 28-07-2021 Date of Acceptance: 12-08-2021 --------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------------- I. INTRODUCTION Project ethics do not just grow like a flower but rather evolved because of its various philosophical views, which in the course of time had been expanded with reference to the moral order. Catholic encyclopedia ethics (1908) asserted that, ethics properly was first discovered among the Greeks, that is in the teaching of Socrates. According to Socrates as cited in the study of Michael (1997) the ultimate object of human activity is happiness, and the necessary means to reach it is virtue. Since everybody necessarily seeks happiness, therefore, no one is deliberately corrupt. All evil arises from unawareness, and the virtues arise from so many kinds of caution. Virtue therefore, is achieved through instruction. In the work of Andrew (2005) Plato also stated that virtue enables man to order his conduct as he properly should, according to the dictates of reasoning and acting, thus, he becomes like unto God. Plato differed from Socrates in that he did not consider virtue to consist in wisdom alone, but in justice, temperance and fortitude as well, these constituting the harmony of man’s activities. In a sense, the state is a man and its function are to train its citizens in virtue which includes honesty, accountability, responsibility, sustainability and dignity. For his ideal State, the ethical working out of persons in business ought therefore to be engaged solely to making obvious these hidden qualities. However, Socrates and Plato had been to the fore in this massive work and had provided much valuable material to the upbuilding of ethics. Aristotle a student of Plato, who has been considered the real founder of virtue ethics, used positive character and behavior to solved most of RESEARCH ARTICLE OPEN ACCESS