Project Management Foundations: Ethics

1h 5mBeginner2023-09-22

Authors

Bob McGannon

PMP and PRINCE2 Certified Consultant, Author, and Speaker

Course details

Your overall success as a project manager depends on your ability to identify and manage ethical issues. Ethical behavior is also a requirement for good standing with the Project Management Institute (PMI). You need to learn how to conduct your project in an ethical way and solve any complications that may arise due to conflicts of interest, business pressure, or even fear of failure. Join PMP and a PRINCE2 certified consultant, coach, author, and keynote speaker Bob McGannon as he examines the core values of ethical projects and the different ethical standards that can be applied to project management. After reviewing the everyday processes of ethics, Bob guides you through aspiring to higher ethics and making ethical decisions in today’s world. He goes over artificial intelligence (AI), data and analytics, social media, and organizational behavior, then gives you a series of challenges to help you work through the most ethical solutions.

Skills covered

Ethics and LawProject Management SkillsProject ManagementFoundationsBusiness Analysis and Strategy

Concepts

0. Introduction

01 - Project ethics - Your foundation

1. Ethics - An Everyday Process

02 - Ethics and the project manager job
03 - Applying the responsibility value
04 - Assessing the respect value
05 - Reviewing fairness
06 - Evaluating honesty

2. Aspiring to Higher Ethics

07 - Examining PMI's aspirational standards
08 - Demonstrating aspirational responsibility
09 - Showing aspirational respect
10 - Behaving with aspirational fairness
11 - Presenting aspirational honesty

3. Ethical Decision-Making in Today's World

12 - An ethical decision-making framework
13 - Real-world ethics - Artificial intelligence
14 - Real-world ethics - Data and analytics
15 - Real-world ethics - Social media
16 - Real-world ethics - Organizational behavior

4. Managing Ethical Challenges

17 - Challenge - Available data
18 - Solution - Available data
19 - Challenge - Using AI text tools (ChatGPT)
20 - Solution - Using AI text tools (ChatGPT)
21 - Challenge - Ensuring fairness
22 - Solution - Ensuring fairness

Conclusion

23 - Managing your projects successfully and ethically