It is now time to review a case study that focuses on ethical behavior.
Access the Open APM’s ethics case study resource provided below to read a scenario concerning ethics in projects.
Can you pinpoint a few instances of professional conduct highlighted in this scenario? Reflect on the skills employed to integrate ethical considerations into the decisions made by the individuals involved. Can you recognize them?
Share your responses in the discussion section below.
After posting your comment, proceed to the next step, where you will find some potential answers provided by APM for these questions.
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when working with two or more people on a particular project, first doing your own research, brainstorming and building up ideas is very key and important. Another very important key is communication, A project manager must know how to communicate with other team members as we all have different approaches to work. irrespective of the kind of person you are working with, a project manager must be able to resonate with them all.
Having constant meetings with team members to talk and brainstorm , updating and giving feedback. All this will avoid crossing each other’s part and line.
effective communication is the key to engagement, we need to understand how to communicate effectively without being misunderstood, exchange of ideal is the resultant effect of good communication, it was the online research and good communication that brought about the positive turnaround on the report and everyone was happy.
A couple of issues of professional conduct are that the office will be no fun place, concerns about the engagement report and running with the report as it stood was too big a risk.
So, Karen exchanged some ideas with colleagues, did an online research to identify a big global firm that the local opinion researchers sometimes partnered with, and shared her good ideas to colleagues to sort out the project.
They finally got the right engagement and identify some material hurdles for the next stage.
Effective communication is the key aspects but many of us we lack effective communication and some times miscommunicate
The lacked communication, john,William and Karen,most especially from William side, carrying out task without constant communication with your partner John and that rendered john a bit confused during the whole meeting with the client,Karen was also planning on criticizing which may have been settled by calling john one on one and settling the matter with no dispute but thankfully she did not,both Karen and John had to work hand in hand with regular communication and feedback on each step taken and later profound solution to the issue.
Generally, they lacked effective communication each held to their thoughts and opinion without understanding the other and communicating to the other. William wanted to cut corners and not going fully by the rules and not understanding the “why”, Karen and John were able to handle it because they discussedit weighed the risk and options and chose a solution based on their analysis.
Generally they lacked effective communication each held to their thoughts and opinion without understanding the other and communicating to the other. William wanted to cut corners and not going fully by the rules and not understanding the “why”, Karen and John were able to handle it because they discussedit weighed the risk and options and chose a solution based on their analysis.
In the case study, it was evident that communication issues were a significant problem at the start. Williams didn’t collaborate with the team to conduct research, nor did he engage people to get genuine responses to the poll. On the other hand, Karen was not honest and lacked transparency because she was worried about criticizing John and more concerned about her position in the company. However, they managed to overcome these challenges by improving their communication and conducting online research. Additionally, Karen provided honest feedback about the areas that needed improvement, which John accepted and worked on. They also reached out to another firm for additional information.
There are a few clitches to the scenario. John want to do good and uplift the company moral standing by being there to assess greatness. William seems to be corrupt and forging reports instead of doing what is right. This manner in most cases is the collapse of the business standard and demoralizes credibility in the sector/company. He hasthe endency of relying on quick unethical solutions, forged and not legitimately processed. There are lots of eyebrow raising questions from this conduct that need to be investigated
William lack proper communication that case he failed to communicate with the stakeholders and team members, no collaboration ,no proper research, he did not carry his team members along, Karen on the other hand was afraid to criticize John and she was more worried about her position in the company. They where able to identify thier mistakes and find solution to it.