Ethics and Project Management

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Ethics and Project Management

e subject of ethics, of course, is not a new one. It has been around for

many centuries. Like the topic itself, circumstances dealing with ethics

continue to resurface everywhere, oen with disturbing repetitiveness.

at goes for the project environment, too. Whether managing a large,

medium, or small project, project managers will have to confront ethics

on an ongoing basis.

1.1   WHAT IS ETHICS?

ere are many dierent denitions of ethics:

• “Ethics refers to a systematic study of the norms and values that

guide how humans should live their lives.”

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• “[Ethics] is the activity of understanding moral