Project Handling Report: Interstate Hotels Ethical Standards Project

This report, focused on project handling within Interstate Hotels & Resorts, investigates the ethical aspects that bind employees to the organization. The project analyzes employee policies, organizational climate, and culture to determine the ethical standards essential for a long-standing and effective relationship. The report details the required information, including employee policies, organizational culture, and ethical factors. The methodology includes interviewing key organizational figures and gathering secondary data from company websites, industry literature, and HRM resources. The project timeline is divided into eight weeks, allocating time for planning, data collection (primary and secondary), analysis, and presentation. The project also addresses risk management and the use of project management tools to ensure data accuracy and effective project execution. The conclusion emphasizes the importance of ethical behavior in organizations and the commitment employees have towards their workplace.

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Introduction
This is a primary report on the much larger project that is to be undertaken towards
finding the ethical aspects that bind employees with their organization. The organization in focus
is the Interstate Hotels and Resorts, a multinational hotel enterprise. The ethical standards the
employees of the organization should maintain in order to secure their long standing effective
relationship with the organization would be the subject of the analysis in the project. The role of
organizational climate and culture would also be discussed.
Required Information
The information required would be the about the employee policies that are implemented
by the Interstate hotels. The interstate hotel having multinational operations. Have a large
number of people that work under them (Interstate Hotels & Resorts, 2019). The organization
also focuses much on diversity of its workforce as an essential part of the organizational culture.
The organizational culture, employee motivation and ethical standards of the hotel are essential
aspects that need to be found. Additionally, the ethical factors that are normally emphasized
across the organizational environments are significantly important to be found as per the given
criteria for the project. Hence, information collected for the project should be focused on some
significant aspects. Primarily, it is important to consider the information related to the ethical
factors that are idealized in the organization. This is to be validated through the information of
the practices. The existing literatures on the topic would need to be found and analyzed in
accordance with its comparative significance with the topic.

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Information collection
Information collection would be an important factor that can govern the effectiveness of
the research process. The organizational climate, culture and ethics need to be understood in a
profound manner hence an important aspect of the information collection method would be
actually collect information from the people related to the organization (Huhtala et al., 2015).
Interview of the higher figures of the organization are required in order to understand the ethical
values that are considered intrinsic to the Interstate Hotels and resorts. However, secondary data
is also important in this case and can be divided into some parts. The information about the
organizational factors need to be gained from the company website and other similar sources.
The information about the industry standards need to be gained from the literary sources. Book,
journals, articles, websites, brochures and HRM related data would need to be gathered. For this
the researches would have to go to libraries and other important data collection centers long with
the organization.
Allocation of Appropriate time for the steps
The time needs to be divided in such ways that help in the systematic analysis of the
organizational factors. The first week needs to be dedicated for planning. The second and third
weeks would need to be dedicated towards gathering the primary data through interviewing the
various people related to the organization. The fourth and fifth weeks would be dedicated
towards gathering the qualitative data in regards to the organization. The sixth and seventh
weeks would be required for essential analysis of the subject matter. The eighth week would be
set aside for the presentation of the collected data. The time will be sufficient in gaining,
analyzing and presentation of data.

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Other factors of project management
Gathering people to undertake the tasks would be an important factor. The people would
be selected on the basis of their understanding of the subject matter. It is also important that the
right communication tools are used. Hence, laptops, tablets, personal computers and if required
smartphones would be utilized to gather data related to the project. It is important that the project
management tools are utilized and implemented successfully for gathering essential data for the
study. The smart sheets would be utilized to effectively manage the project (Fleming &
Koppelman, 2016, December). Risk management would be necessary as there are risks of
gathering wrong or misleading information in this work. The project would be made only with
the most authentically available information.
Conclusion
The project would help to know the most important aspects that are related to the subject
matter. The project becomes more important in view of the fact that many organizations and their
employees suffer due to the unethical behaviors of some in these places. It is important to
understand that the employees have an important commitment towards their organization that
they need to respect and honor.

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References
Fleming, Q. W., & Koppelman, J. M. (2016, December). Earned value project management.
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Huhtala, M., Tolvanen, A., Mauno, S., & Feldt, T. (2015). The associations between ethical
organizational culture, burnout, and engagement: A multilevel study. Journal of Business
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Jurkiewicz, C. L., & Giacalone, R. A. (2016). Organizational determinants of ethical
dysfunctionality. Journal of Business Ethics, 136(1), 1-12.
The Leading Independent Hotel Operator - Interstate Hotels & Resorts. (2019). Retrieved from
https://www.interstatehotels.com/