This study has implications to PDEs. First and foremost, we surmise that as accounting officers relate with their
subordinates and work to execute a procurement-related activity, they are indirectly creating and influencing moral
schemas which will determine how procurement officers will relate to other employees within the organizations. This is consistent with Kelly’s (1955) argument that our past experiences help us to develop constructs and expectancies for the future. Kelly explains that without expectancies we would be overwhelmed with information which would leave us confused and unable to predict anything. We therefore recommend that PDEs, schools, churches, social workers, and other community members should take up an active role in positively influencing moral schemas of individuals by instilling moral agency in all Ugandans, especially older procurement officers.