Leading and Managing Projects

This document discusses the importance of ethical behavior and professionalism in project management. It explores the role of the Chartered Project Management Professional (CPP) and the code of conduct set by the Association of Project Management (APM). It also examines the ethical decision-making process and its impact on project success.

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Table of Contents
Answer to Question 1......................................................................................................................2
Answer to Question 2......................................................................................................................3
Answer to question 3.......................................................................................................................4
References........................................................................................................................................5

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Answer to Question 1
Chartered Project Management Professional has become open to everyone. The overall
chances will ultimately effect individuals that work in and around the project management
disciplines. Chattered Project Professionalism (CPP) is known to be a standard benchmark which
helps in attainment of given level of technical knowledge (Hodgson and Paton 2016). This
particular aspect helps in gaining the overall status of chattered project. It is merely inclusive of
registration of Project Professionals. A list of person is available for project manager, project
office that provides support to function like risk analysts and risk estimator. Association of
Project Management (APM) requires to have high ethical standard that requires individual to
have much high professional standard. Both ethics and ethical behaviour tend to have serious
impact on professionalism and is considered to be an important aspect (Paton and Hodgson
2016). The reputation is completely based not completely on organization for delivering its
products and services. It is all about delivering required product and services. The mere focus is
all about understanding the values concerning relationship with respect to its stakeholders. Very
few will have an understanding concerning trusting relationship with client, employees, suppliers
and overall community. Client mainly requires to have project managers who are professional
and ethical.
Code is completely approved by the board and is completely developed in consultation
with people that are within the profession (Reed 2018). The professional code of committee can
align with the breach in the given code of lines that come up with procedural rules. This
particular aspect will help the organization in building proper trust and reassurance for
profession in project management.

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Answer to Question 2
Chattered Project Management is a well-known standard in professional benchmark that
helps in attaining much definite level of knowledge. Various bodies like APM tend to have code
of conduct which is needed for guiding and raising the overall level of trust and communication
in public professionalism (Turner 2016). APM aims to have high ethical standard that requires to
have professionalism. Ethical behaviour is known to be part of professionalism which is known
to be standard of APM journey. High standard of ethical behaviour can easily bring huge number
of benefits to everyone more specifically profession is completely improved (McCann and
Kulatunga 2015). The overall quality of delivery and quality of products is completely raised and
benefits in achieved in the society. It is mainly done, so that project manager needs to complete
the given work to a given high standard.
Institute of Ethics mainly define the business ethics which is due to application of values
that is openness and integrity for the behaviour of business. Ethics is business is mainly applied
to various aspect of the conduct of business that is needed for forming boardroom of strategies,
sales techniques and relation with the stakeholders (Bonnin and Ruggunan 2016). Also, it merely
tends to highlight the various kind of issues concerning responsibility of product. Ethics in
business can have discretionary decision which is needed by organization. In this, the individual
tends to day-to-day situation which is encountered.
It is known to be an important aspect that is completely based on delivering the
organization for its required product and services. It will ultimately help in valuing relationship
with some of its key stakeholders (Hodgson and Paton 2016). Only few people will deny the
overall importance of trust good relationship with some of the clients. In general, clients are

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mainly attracted by various project managers who tend to offer in both professional and ethical
way.
Answer to question 3
Ethical Decision making can be considered to be dilemma that is major reason success of
the project. By making use of this framework, the given decision can be considered to be
important for leadership competence. Project manager is considered to be one of the vital aspects
that need to be taken into consideration (Paton and Hodgson 2016). A range of people that is
stakeholders, co-workers are completely depended on the overall success of the given project.
Organization around the globe mainly focus on ethical expectation of itself and its members. If
the given leaders speak of model for ethics, then the given model will be shared with this. If the
given leaders speak with ethics code and then proper expectation of model can be achieved. The
five steps of ethical decision making are ethical behaviour, building trust, ethical leadership and
overall success of the project (Reed 2018). Ethical challenges can come into picture that cannot
be addressed by the help of ethical and quick interpretation of the ethical codes. Both time-
consuming, complex dilemma is considered to be very frequent which is needed for taking time
and proper effort.
EDMF mainly comprises of five steps and facts that is needed for collecting dilemma
before the use (Turner 2016). By making use of this particular framework, proper access can be
gained concerning dilemma, understanding the alternatives, proper decision by making use of
ethical decision.

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References
Bonnin, D. and Ruggunan, S., 2016. Professions and professionalism in emerging
economies. The Routledge companion to the professions and professionalism, pp.251-264.
Hodgson, D.E. and Paton, S., 2016. Understanding the professional project manager:
Cosmopolitans, locals and identity work. International Journal of Project Management, 34(2),
pp.352-364.
McCann, A. and Kulatunga, U., 2015. The extent that chartered project management surveying
practices and clients avail themselves of professional project management practice standards.
Paton, S. and Hodgson, D., 2016. Project managers on the edge: liminality and identity in the
management of technical work. New Technology, Work and Employment, 31(1), pp.26-40.
Reed, C., 2018. Professionalizing corporate professions: Professionalization as identity
project. Management Learning, 49(2), pp.222-238.
Turner, R., 2016. Gower handbook of project management. Routledge.