ethics and legality in the practice of project management
fosco frongiaSenior project manager| ENTE PATRIMONIALE CHIESA GESU' CRISTO SUGFino Mornasco, Como, Italy
I was recently involved in a study on ethical behavior and legality in the practice of project management.
Personally I think that the lack of ethic (and the illegal behavior) is connected, in the most part of the cases, with a lack of consideration around the consequences of our action and a lack of long therm perspective.
Have you already addressed the issue and what are your opinion on the theme?.
They are welcome guidance on the literature and any studies already conducted.
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Sergio Luis ConteHelping to create solutions for everyone| Worldwide based OrganizationsBuenos Aires, Argentina
Ethical is not the same than legality, as you know. About ethic is an ancient discussion and it is a matter of phylosophy where you have to take into account variables like context and environment. And that is because, in the case of a multinational, multicountries organization a code of ethic is created and people who works inside the organization must adhere to it and, what is more important, is trained to understand it. There is a lot of literature and thanks God, in my case, I have the opportunity to have professors like Mario Bunge or Gegorio Klimovsky between others.
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1 reply by fosco frongia
Dec 18, 2015 4:53 AM
fosco frongia
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Hi Sergio,
correctly ethical is not legality because the first one is more focused in the behavior and the second one in respecting laws etc. (theoretically if a laws is not ethical - e.g. racial laws - respecting it we are into legality area but we are broken our ethical code). I agree with you in your second point. the ethic code is influenced by different variables like environment and, I add, culture. Multinational organization adopt a code that, in different cultures, may have some points which sound "strange".For this reason it is needed not only request that people adhere but, more important, people understand it and the reason for adopting the same code
I would agree with you, Fosco. I think the instant vs. delayed gratification is at play.
In project management terms, you could say bad ethics is insufficient risk management.
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1 reply by fosco frongia
Dec 18, 2015 4:36 AM
fosco frongia
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Hi Stephane,
many thanks for your comment. To link bad ethics with poor risk management is very interesting and I'd like to analyze it thoroughly. do you think the only cause for fad ethic or, in your opinion, there may be other reasons?
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MAEN QADDOURAHProject Director| AJ SAUDIJeddah, Saudi Arabia
ETHICS MAY NOT LEAD TO ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR.THIS DEPENDS ON THE MENTALITY OF CERTAIN PERSON.
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1 reply by fosco frongia
Dec 18, 2015 5:10 AM
fosco frongia
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Hi Maen,
thanks for sending me your opinion, please correct me if I have misunderstood it (I'm sorry, but English is not my maternal tongue): I understand you consider that if anybody respect ethical code cannot be affected by illegal behavior. is it correct my interpretation?
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@MAEN:
No offense, but using upper-case letters only in boards or comments are mostly interpreted as "shouting out loud". ... ;) Saving Changes...
fosco frongiaSenior project manager| ENTE PATRIMONIALE CHIESA GESU' CRISTO SUGFino Mornasco, Como, Italy
I would agree with you, Fosco. I think the instant vs. delayed gratification is at play.
In project management terms, you could say bad ethics is insufficient risk management.
Hi Stephane,
many thanks for your comment. To link bad ethics with poor risk management is very interesting and I'd like to analyze it thoroughly. do you think the only cause for fad ethic or, in your opinion, there may be other reasons? Saving Changes...
fosco frongiaSenior project manager| ENTE PATRIMONIALE CHIESA GESU' CRISTO SUGFino Mornasco, Como, Italy
Dec 17, 2015 7:41 AM
Replying to Sergio Luis Conte
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Ethical is not the same than legality, as you know. About ethic is an ancient discussion and it is a matter of phylosophy where you have to take into account variables like context and environment. And that is because, in the case of a multinational, multicountries organization a code of ethic is created and people who works inside the organization must adhere to it and, what is more important, is trained to understand it. There is a lot of literature and thanks God, in my case, I have the opportunity to have professors like Mario Bunge or Gegorio Klimovsky between others.
Hi Sergio,
correctly ethical is not legality because the first one is more focused in the behavior and the second one in respecting laws etc. (theoretically if a laws is not ethical - e.g. racial laws - respecting it we are into legality area but we are broken our ethical code). I agree with you in your second point. the ethic code is influenced by different variables like environment and, I add, culture. Multinational organization adopt a code that, in different cultures, may have some points which sound "strange".For this reason it is needed not only request that people adhere but, more important, people understand it and the reason for adopting the same code Saving Changes...
fosco frongiaSenior project manager| ENTE PATRIMONIALE CHIESA GESU' CRISTO SUGFino Mornasco, Como, Italy
hi Sandilyan,
I cannot read you comment. may you edit it other time?
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fosco frongiaSenior project manager| ENTE PATRIMONIALE CHIESA GESU' CRISTO SUGFino Mornasco, Como, Italy
Dec 17, 2015 10:42 PM
Replying to MAEN QADDOURAH
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ETHICS MAY NOT LEAD TO ILLEGAL BEHAVIOR.THIS DEPENDS ON THE MENTALITY OF CERTAIN PERSON.
Hi Maen,
thanks for sending me your opinion, please correct me if I have misunderstood it (I'm sorry, but English is not my maternal tongue): I understand you consider that if anybody respect ethical code cannot be affected by illegal behavior. is it correct my interpretation? Saving Changes...
fosco frongiaSenior project manager| ENTE PATRIMONIALE CHIESA GESU' CRISTO SUGFino Mornasco, Como, Italy
many thanks for your comments.
reading them, I was raised two new questions:
1 - in my first comment i affirmed "lack of ethic... with a lack of consideration around the consequences of our action and a lack of long therm perspective". this affirmation is based on the consideration that people normally don't choose between a bad or good action but between "right and correct" action and "easy to implement" one (brief therms vision) . Stephane affirmed other very interesting point of view: "bad ethics is insufficient risk management", focusing the matter not in decision process but in a analysis one. what do you think about it?
2 - Sergio affirmed, and i agree with, that ethic is influenced by context and environment ( i add culture). this is the reason because multinational organization need to "create" a ethical code applied and understood by people (please note the affirmation "trained to understood). do you think that this code should be based on the culture, behavior etc. characteristic of the zone where the organization born or it should be based on common ethical rules (common in all countries? Saving Changes...
