Professional Responsibilities for Project Managers: A Quick Review #PMP – Project Management

Professional Responsibilities for Project Managers
Simply: Handle any issue directly, ethically, and legally. Be open and upfront. Solve issues quickly, openly,fairly.Be direct to solve an issue rather than ignoring it.

Professional Responsibility deals with:
1. Responsibilities to the profession
2. Responsibilities to the customers and the public

Responsibilities to the profession:
1. Compliance with all organizational rules
2. Advancement of the profession

Responsibilities to the customers and the public:
1. Responsibility to provide accurate and truthful information/representation to the public
2. Maintain and satisfy the responsibilities of professional services
3. Maintain and respect the confidentiality and sensitivity of information
4. Conflict of interest should not affect customers badly
5. Do not take bribes

Professional Responsibility can be categorized in five areas such as:
Integrity and professionalism
Contribute to knowledgebase
Improve individual competence
Balance stakeholders interest
Interact with Team and stakeholders

Integrity and professionalism
shortly:Always do the right thing.
Laws:Comply with all rules. Comply with the rules of the city/state/country where the project is taking place. If the project deals with any other country – it may be needed to comply with the rules of that country[before that knowing the legal rules of the other country is important].
Policies:Comply with organizational policies
Integrity:Stick with high moral principles
Professionalism:
–Processes: Maintain and execute the processes required for the project. PMI suggests 44 processes. Following these processes reduces risk and improves time, cost,efficiency. Carry out the processes required accordingly even the customers want a shortcut way.
–Respect:
show respect to othersPMI strongly advocates multiculturalism and encourages to be respectful to other culturesMaintaining confidentiality of client information is also important.

Contribute to knowledgebase
–Share the experince with PMI and with other professionals in the field
–PMI encourages to teach, publish, write, disseminate the PMI aspect of Project Management

Improve individual competence
–PMI encourages all professionals(PMPs) in this field to improve them and to gain more knowledge continuously.
–Know your professional weaknesses and try to improve them

Balance Stakeholder Interests
Interests of stakeholders may collide.
Be fair, open, direct, ethical in solving the conflicts
-Resolve the conflict in favor of the customer interest[benefit]

Interact with Team and stakeholders
–Communication should be open
–Cultural differences should be respected
–Laziness and negligence should not be tolerated

Social-Economic-Environmental-Sustainability
-If a project makes the society suffer, creates an environmental problem, the project manager should disclose theinformation and should try to avoid such situations. If needed the project manager should resign the project.

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