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Project managers uphold the Project Management Institute’s Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct as well as our employing company’s own code of conduct or values statement. It gets more interesting: consulting environments and international project management may pile additional codes and credos that we ought to fully understand. Given the current business climate, in which competition is fierce, regulations are strict, and customer loyalty is at stake, however, more companies are utilizing projects as the vehicle of choice to keep their edge and project management as the chosen methodology to wisely execute on strategic imperatives. This is all good news for the project management community.

The downside is that companies are also using project management to leverage their aggressive deployment schedules, unintentionally creating ideal breeding grounds for unethical behavior.

It is argued that the sole reason for the existence of a management is to make profits. Managers that do not create value not only will fired but should fired. In fact, “businessmen who talk this way [about corporate social responsibility] are unwitting puppets of the intellectual forces that have been undermining the basis of a free society these past decades.

An ethical Project Manager is a successful Project Manager. The PMI has established a Professional Code of Ethics that all Project Management Professionals (PMP) must adhere to. These ethics are meant to ensure that all PMPs abide by a set of values, and they live up to those values in pursuit of their careers.

Project Ethics won't ensure you are a successful project manager, however not behaving ethically will almost always ensure your project will fail. As stated in the PMI Code of conduct, which in my opinion is the most important ethical behavior, a project manager must accept responsibility for his or her actions. This means admitting to all your stakeholders when you are wrong, learning from your mistakes, and putting...