Drawing the Line—An Extreme Project Management Responsibility

In the situations previously described, the behavior could be seen as simply the behavior of individuals who lack guidelines on ethics. However, in all cases, the behavior was either directly or indirectly condoned by the project managers of those individuals.

Just as it is expected that management must prescribe and support standards for best practice, it has always been expected that managers and project managers also prescribe and support ethical standards. As discussed by Berenbeim (1992), corporate ethics are one of the concerns of CEOs and they see the question of ethics as being integral to (a) the corporate mission, (b) constituency (client, employees, suppliers, etc.) relations, ...

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