Network Project Management - Assignment

Running head: NETWORK PROJECT MANAGEMENT
Network Project Management
Name of the Student
Name of the University
Author Note

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Table of Contents
1. PM Leadership.................................................................................................................2
1.1. Project Management Leadership by Bob..................................................................2
1.2. Project Management Leadership by Jim...................................................................2
2. PM Execution..................................................................................................................2
3. PM Risk Analysis............................................................................................................3
4. Ethics Assessment...........................................................................................................3
5. Ethics Alternatives...........................................................................................................4
6. Ethics Analysis................................................................................................................4
7. Ethics Application...........................................................................................................5
8. Ethics Action...................................................................................................................5
References............................................................................................................................7

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1. PM Leadership
The entire situation is needed to be analysed from the perspective of both Jim and Bob.
The leadership styles portrayed by Jim and Bob in discussed below [7].
1.1. Project Management Leadership by Bob
Bob has been working in the firm for 25 years and therefore is quite experienced about
the working needs of the firm. The owner and the workers of the firm have complete trust in Bob
because of his effective decision making power and the ability to organize a project work
efficiently. To keep the carpenters engaged with the project and to motivate them, Bob decided
to send the carpenter to his home for doing some work there. It is a form of transformational
leadership that aims at keeping the workers, and the team members motivated [6]. However, the
decision of paying those carpenters from the construction cost may not be ethical.
1.2. Project Management Leadership by Jim
Jim is new to the firm and therefore does not have much knowledge about the working
process and procedure of the firm. Jim found the whole situation wrong and yet didn’t take any
serious action. This is because he was new to the firm and the workers of the firm were quite
confident about the organizing ability of Bob. Therefore, Jim had shown situational leadership in
this case [8].
2. PM Execution
After proper analysis of the situation, it is found out that the project execution was not
smooth mainly because the project plan did not consider the possibility of the winter rain. Since
this is not new to rain in spring and winter, it was necessary to plan the project accordingly.

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However, as an alternative Bob could have negotiated with the carpenters to take a leave
during the rainy days or the carpenters could have been paid at a subsidized rate during the rainy
days. These two situations could have been better alternative options for workers’ retention
instead of sending the carpenters for personal work.
3. PM Risk Analysis
The project plan should have identified the possible risk of a hamper in the project work
due to rains [3]. The project scheduling in a proper way could have however reduced this risk.
The rains not only hampered the project work, but it also made the carpenters engaged with the
project jobless. This is another major risk that the project plan could have addressed [2]. As a
risk mitigation approach, the risk could have transferred to a contractor who would have been
hired for providing all the furnishing works. Furthermore, the carpenters could have been
negotiated about payment in instalments according to the work progress and not on a daily basis.
This could have saved the project manager in paying the carpenters for absolutely doing nothing
in the rainy days.
4. Ethics Assessment
The main ethical implication or dilemma associated with this situation is to analyse
whether it is right for Bob to engage the carpenters for his personal work and paying them from
the funds of the firm.
 This is certainly not ethically correct or legally correct since the carpenters are
paid from the funds which are saved as the cost of construction. This means that
carpenters are actually paid from the project fund without doing the works of the
project.

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 The code of ethics and the professional conduct states that a project member
needs to be fair, responsible and honest in their action. Therefore, it can certainly
be said that the current situation does not follow the PMI code of ethics as it is
completely unethical to make use of the company’s resources for personal works.
Therefore the current situation does not align with the code of ethics [5].
5. Ethics Alternatives
The possible choice that Jim had was to take charge of the situation and negotiate with
the carpenters about their payment in the non-working days. Furthermore, Jim could have
brought into the notice of the higher officials about the current situation and that Bob is making
use of the company’s resources for his work, whatever might be the reason behind it.
The main advantage of both the alternatives is that the company’s resources could have
been saved. However, the disadvantage is that it can result in the loss of carpenters or
dissatisfaction of team members.
The possible choice that Bob had was to pay the carpenters who are working for his
personal work from his salary or negotiate with the carpenters for a subsidised rate of payment.
The advantage is that the unethical situation of using company’s resources for personal
work could have been avoided and it could have contributed to carpenters’ retention as well.
However, the disadvantage is that Bob would have been paying the carpenters a huge amount for
doing small works in his house.
6. Ethics Analysis

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The candidate decision could have been engaging the carpenters for doing some internal
works of the firm during rains and continuing with the project work during sunny days. This
decision is valid according to the factors suggested by PMI decision making framework that is
concerned with the greatest good of all parties [4]. The PMI ethical decision making framework
guides an individual in the project management profession when confronted with an ethical
dilemma. The PMI decision making framework analyses the situation on basis of assessment,
alternatives, analysis, application and the action. The candidate decision is chosen on basis of the
situation, assessment and alternatives to deal with the ethical problem. The action is to be taken
by Jim and he is appointed as the assistant project manager of the firm.
7. Ethics Application
The candidate decision is the use of carpenters for internal works of the firm [1]. The
ethical principles of the candidate decision are mainly evaluated on basis of certain questions.
These questions evaluate whether the decision would result in the greatest good and whether the
decision will be beneficial to the others. The choice of engaging the carpenters is, therefore a
valid decision.
This choice would be of greatest good since Bob is not making unethical use of the
resources and neither has he to pay the carpenters from his salary.
The choice would be fair and beneficial to all concerned parties since the carpenters are
not losing their jobs neither the firm’s money is used for some unethical purpose.
8. Ethics Action

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The decision is to engage the carpenters for some internal work of the firm as it will
benefit all the concerned parties. This will prevent any possible clash between Jim and Bob as
well. By engaging the carpenters for some internal work, no one can question decision of Bob as
it is the best way for retention of the carpenters.
The ethics action is mainly evaluated on basis of certain considerations, which include
whether the decision maker in willing to accept the responsibility of the decision made, is t
possible to make a particular decision public and whether the decision maker is ready to act on
the decision taken. Jim and Bob therefore have to take the responsibility of their decisions as an
important need of ethics action. It is expected that Jim will suggest this candidate decision to his
team members and therefore he will have to take the responsibility of the decision.

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References
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