2015 was plagued by many scandals, most of them related to corruption and ethics: FIFA: last December, 16 FIFA officials were charged with involvement in bribery and corruption.Its President and Union of European Football Associations President were both suspended for eight years from any soccer activity. Volkswagen: last September, the EPA found (and the car company confirmed) they were cheating about their diesel emissions test.
How do you think we can avoid these behaviors to affect our projects? Do you have any plan to track and measure ethics? Saving Changes...
Hi I am reading this board and need advice. My company has a metric for on time delivery and this achievement has been low. I was recently asked to obtain a change order from my customer requesting a new date that matches the new manufacturing date. This would increase our on time delivery. Is this ethical? Saving Changes...
Paul RadulescuBusiness Technology Mgmt| DeHavilland Aircraft of CanadaToronto, Ontario, Canada
It looks like you have an estimation issue. If the deliveries are constantly low you might work on that.
During a project, you can rebaseline any time you can or want, to adapt to changing environment. It's more work for you, but if the client agrees with the new deadlines, there are no issues.
It would be unethical in the case the client does not know and/or agree they have the deadlines changed. Saving Changes...
Anonymous
Thanks you Paul - that is a clear cut answer. Saving Changes...
AKSHAY JAINPlanning Group Leader| YOKOGAWA, BahrainGwalior, Mp, India
Unless roles are well defined up to level of Office boy to President of America and lower level people will be allowed to take actions on higher ups based on accountability, corruption cant be eliminated. Unless people bow down before power and allow certain people above you corruption will always be there. Saving Changes...
Anonymous
I believe these problems occurred during operations, not the project management stage; however, I think we can build in some checks and balances into the processes before going operational. We have to identify which functions or processes may have the highest risk for corruption first. Is it monetary, pay for play? Some accountability must be built in. Perhaps a committee should be required to approve certain transactions above a set amount...or establish specific requirements that are codified and can be easily checked by inspectors. Require paper trails, etc. etc.
Of course in the end no matter how much you try to prevent corruption, people will find a way to break the rules. So you need to hire people who are trustworthy first. Saving Changes...
Anonymous
Thank you for the responses. We certainly do not have clear responsibility and roles defined, so can't get to any accountability. I like the idea of a committee. Thanks again. Saving Changes...
