Project Management and Ethics

  1. LO 4.8 Recognize the important role ethics plays for successful project leadership.

The expectation that project managers and their organizations work to complete projects successfully also contains within it a joint expectation that their behavior will be ethically-minded. In other words, well-educated and responsible project managers and their teams need to possess the knowledge to understand not only difficult technical and managerial issues as they relate to the project, they must also be able to discern and respond to ethical issues in their work. Ethics can be defined in several ways. For our purposes, let us think of ethics as attempts to make sense of moral experiences in such a way as “to determine the ...

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