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Leaders Choice - Five Steps to Ethical Decision Making

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Reviewed:: Jul 30, 2024 by Business

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Overview:

Making ethical decisions when confronted with a dilemma is a key to success along the project leadership journey. Using a framework to guide those decisions can be crucial to advancing project leadership competence. This paper describes the strong connection between ethical decision making and project leadership success. It depicts the role that an ethical decision-making model can play and presents the new five-step PMI Ethical Decision-Making Framework (EDMF) created by the Ethics Member Advisory Group (Ethics MAG) and released PMI-wide. It explores a realistic ethical dilemma is using the EDMF. A summary is included about the benchmarking of other organizations indicating that PMI is at the front of the ethical decision-making trend. This paper is authored by the four members of the PMI Ethics MAG and the ethics expert who developed the EDMF.

Type of Material:

Reference Material

Recommended Uses:

This can be used in lectures, in-class discussions, for homework and individuals or team assignments. This is especially appropriate in ethics courses, leadership and project management curricula.

Technical Requirements:

Firefox 32.0.0.330, Chrome
Java 8 Update 241
Adobe Reader Plugin for Firefox

Identify Major Learning Goals:

Understand the new five-step PMI ethical decision-making framework (EDMF) by providing a realistic ethical dilemma and applying the EDMF.
This research paper's summary includes the benchmarking of other organizations indicating that PMI is at the front of the ethical decision-making trend.

Target Student Population:

Upper-level management students
Graduate business students

Prerequisite Knowledge or Skills:

None

Content Quality

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Thorough and concise.
Validity and reliability.
Classical research that could be used in current research.
Background and introductory information are provided at the beginning of the paper (website), providing the perspective and the background for this information.
The hypothetical case is included on the website.
Supporting research is listed.

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None.

Potential Effectiveness as a Teaching Tool

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All PMI documents used to support the research are live links
Rationale and models are provided to illustrate the concepts
Links are provided to organizations outside of PMI who provided materials for this paper.

Concerns:

None.

Ease of Use for Both Students and Faculty

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The paper is easy to read, easy to follow and easy to understand.
The models of the explanations provide clarity and simple explanations and support the linkage of concepts that support the need for ethical leadership.
Good visuals

Concerns:

None.

Other Issues and Comments:

Because PMI offers certification, users need to keep in mind that further training is available at a price with PMI. This document is only a small part of the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK).

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