The Importance Of Ethical Issues In Project Management

Except PMBOK, my primary resources are from these two books, and I didn’t add any citation yet, I will add it to them later. http://site.ebrary.com/lib/northeastern/reader.action?docID=10623002&ppg=120 http://site.ebrary.com/lib/northeastern/reader.action?docID=10899796# Part 1 (Ethics and Social Responsibility Essay) Section A-Argumentative Essay

Ethical issues in projects are not created by accidents. They are made by people with personal values, assumptions, pressure from constraints, and personal interests. It all come into play when it comes to ethical decision making. Setting up a code of ethics and social responsibilities for project management are essential contributors to the project success, because it helps the project manager

For instance: the RAM and resource histogram helps team members be aware of the negative impacts of being unethical as it might cause serious consequences for others, the project organization chart can help the project manager to establish a strong ethical culture from the top to the bottom as well as keep monitoring and controlling critical activities across departments. Ethics issues in Procurement

While HR management focus on the internal resources of an organization, the project procurement management generally will focus on acquiring goods and service from outside of the organization. According to the PMBOK, the procurement management usually contain the following features (p224-236):

a. Make-or buy decisions: it usually compares the internal cost of making a good or providing services with the cost of acquiring goods or service from the third party.

b. Procurement management plan: it indicates how the procurement processes will be executing till the contract closure.

c. Requests for proposal/quote: a document records how the supplier will meet the buyer’s requirements, or a document states prices of items based on the agreement of both parties.

d. Contract statement of work: it defines the specific goods or services to be

The event organizer Lu Chung-chi was under arrested and under investigated. Since he was the event owner, Lu probably faced a minimum sentence of 5 years in prison.

3. The person who was in charge of lighting and hardware of this event was arrested and under investigation. If I am the event organizer, I would have done two things differently:

1. Make sure the warning of using the product had been addressed and written at the procurement management plan as we purchased it from the third party. The contract statement of work under the procurement plan should have described all the specification of the color powder to be purchased, included the warning.

2. Implement the risk management plan after initiating phase and make sure the warning of the product be addressed and written at the procurement management plan as we purchased it from the third party. I believe that having a better understanding of project risks is essential for the project manager to successfully complete the event. There are following steps for implementing a risk manage plan:

a. Identify risks: Schedule a brainstorming session with all key stakeholders, which included the person who was responsible for all lighting and hardware for this