glossary
Responsibility
Respect
Fairness
Honesty
100
These include, but are not limited to, participation on a PMI Member Advisory Group, PMI standard development team, or another PMP working group or committee.
What is PMI-sponsored activities.
100
An example of this is where you discover the project is suffering because you have not created a project management plan, and you feel that if you tell management about the problem, you will look bad or lose your job?
What is Make decisions based on the best interests of the company, rather than your own best interest.
100
A project manager has an ethical responsibility to provide resource managers with advance notice of what resources the project needs and the impact to the project if the resources are not available.
What is Maintain an attitude of mutual cooperation.
100
In some cultures this practice can be the norm, but in project management we need to follow this under the code of ethics.
What is do not discriminate against others.
100
Accurately understanding a situation and getting correct information from reliable sources means you are doing this.
What is try to understand the truth.
200
A person's responsibility, legal or moral, to promote the best interest of an organization.
What is Duty of Loyalty
200
This what to do if someone in your company told you that he or she does not follow a certain company procedure.
What is Report unethical behavior and violations.
200
This topic is discussed in the Human Resources chapter, but is also part of professional and social responsibility.
What is Be direct in dealing with conflict.
200
It is a violation of professional and social responsibility to use your position for this.
What is do not use your position for personal or business gain.
200
Telling the truth and being an example to your workers means that you are following this code of conduct.
What is Be truthful in all communications, and create an environment where others tell the truth.
300
Conduct that results in physical harm or creates intense feelings of fear, humiliation, manipulation, or exploitation in another person.
What is abusive manner.
300
A project manager needs to make sure copies of documents that have copyrights are not made.
What is protect proprietary information
300
Differences in language, nonverbal actions, and practices are all part of this area.
What is respect cultural differences.
300
This ethic means you should continuously look for these and __________ them?
What is look for conflicts of interest and disclose them.
300
You are finalizing the monthly project status report due now to your manager when you discover that several project team members are not reporting actual hours spent on project activities. This results in inaccurate project statisitics. This means you should:
What is Povide accurate and truthful representations in all project reports.
400
A situation that arises when a practitioner of project management is faced with making a decision or doing some act that will benefit the practitioner or another person to which the practitioner owes a duty of loyalty and at the same time will harm another person to which the practitioner owes a similar duty of loyalty.
What is Conflict of Interest.
400
Make sure you can handle the job before it is assigned to you
What is only accept assignments you are qualified to complete.
400
Even before signing a contract, you need to ensure you are honest and intend to follow through.
What is engage in good faith negotiations.
400
Part of being fair means to do this even though it may be acceptable in some countries.
What is Act impartially without bribery.
500
A person who participates in PMI-sponsored activities - could be a member of the PMI but not necessarily.
What is PMI volunteer.
500
If you know someone has been retaliated against because he or she reported PMI's code of Ethics, you should do this.
What is pursue disciplinary action.
500
When you respect cultural differences, part of this means you prevent the disorientation that occurs when you find yourself working with other cultures in a different environment.
What is culture shock
500
The right to food, a fair trial, non discriminating treatment, minimal education, physical safety, and freedom of speech are know as this term.
What is Fundamental rights.
500
You have just discovered an error in the implementation plan that will prevent you from meeting a milestone date. You should:
What is develop options to meet the milestone date.