Ethics and Professional Responsibility by Sean Whitaker

About the Lecture

The lecture Ethics and Professional Responsibility by Sean Whitaker is from the course Archiv - PMP Training – Become a Project Management Professional (EN). It contains the following chapters:

Introducing Ethics & Professional Conduct
Ethics & Professional Conduct
The Code Applies to
Summary

Included Quiz Questions

You are working in a foreign country delivering a reconstruction project after a large natural disaster. It is normal in this country for government officials to request bribes to assist with processing the consents you require. During a meeting with a government official he mentions that if you pay a $500 bribe you can have the consent you require tomorrow. What is your best course of action?

Refuse to pay the bribe.
Report the official to his manager.
Ask the official for an invoice so the payment can be made by the project.
Pay the $500 out of your own pocket.

You and your project administrator have been working on a detailed project progress report to present to high level stakeholders. You leave it up to the project administrator to complete the report and he emails it to you on the day of the meeting. You are having a busy day and don't get a chance to read the report but as you walk into the meeting you notice some large errors in the financial reporting section of the report? What is your best course of action?

Reschedule the meeting for another time to give you the chance to fix the errors.
Get the project administrator to appear before the stakeholders to explain the mistakes.
Give the report to the stakeholders and point out the project administrators errors.
Give the report in the meeting and accept the blame personally for any errors.

You are working on a project to build a new motorway and as result of the public land acquisition to complete the works a cousin of yours will receive a large payout if the works you are managing cause any harm to livestock on his property. What should you do?

Declare the relationship and conflict of interest and let your managers decide what to do.
Carry on managing the job knowing that you are an honest person.
Resign from the job.
Secretly met your cousin an ask for a percentage of the payment they may receive.