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Vol. XI Issue III - March 2009
Project Management eJournal
Exploring the Role of Professional Codes of Ethics as Applied to Project Management in Helping to Fix the Global Financial Crisis
By Paul D. Giammalvo, PhD
In a recent article published on the PM Hub Forum, http://pmhub.net/, Cornelius Fichtner wrote an infomercial using PMI and the PMI Code of Ethics to tout his latest podcast. In it, Cornelius summed up the PMI Code of Ethics as saying “Don’t steal, cheat and don’t lie”. Now, my question to you, as professional practitioners, is this enough? Is simply not stealing, cheating or lying sufficient to differentiate the true professional from everyone else in the crowd?
Let’s explore the PMI Code of Ethics by comparing it against other professional Codes of Ethics. The first benchmark is the grandfather of all codes of ethics, Hippocrates’s and his “Hippocratic Oath” taken by all doctors. http://www.nlm.nih.gov/hmd/greek/greek_oath.html This Code of Ethics exemplifies something that PMI (and at least some other professional organizations) seems to have missed, and that is, “do no harm”. PMI advocates that we do what is “right and honorable” but is that the same as doing no harm?
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About the Author
Dr. Paul D. Giammalvo, CDT, CCE, MScPM, is Senior Technical Advisor to PT Mitratata Citragraha www.getpmcertified.com , Adjunct Professor of Project/Program Management, Lille Graduate School of Management, Paris, FRANCE. www.esc-lille.com, and is a curriculum development specialist in Asset and Project Management for the University of Western Australia, www.blendedlearning.ecm.uwa.edu.au . For over 14 years, he has been providing Project Management training and consulting throughout SE Asia, Middle East and Europe. He is active in the Association for the Advancement of Cost Engineering International, (AACE), www.aacei.org and the Construction Management Association of America, (CMAA), www.cmaanet.org. More recently, he has been elected to the Board of Directors, Global Alliance for Project Performance Standards, (GAPPS) www.global-mstandards.org. Paul is based in Jakarta, Indonesia and can be reached at pauldg@indo.net.id.
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