amirkabir wrote:
Hi
I would like to hear from you if the topic I consider to wirte about is suitable for an ethical dilemma / maintain integrity question.
On one of my current projects as a project manager, I managed 5 client team members. One day the client senior manager asked me about an honest opinion about one of the members I supervised. The dilemma was that the guy was underperforming and actually I faced the situation to tell the truth and let guy get a warning sign or just wipe it off and deal with it and try to successfully finish the project. I decided for the latter and actually this was against my integrity, because I appreciate honesty and will be treated with honesty. But my decision was actually good, because we successfully finished the project and several month later the senior manager told me that they self have take note that this guy is a underperformer and he was removed from the team.
Hope someone can shed some light in this
BEst
Amir
In the story as you retell it here, it seems as if you lied (by saying that the guy is doing fine), which would be a red flag. An ethical dilemma is a situation in which you have to choose between two options and neither is really fully "correct." Your challenge in this situation wasn't an ethical dilemma really because you could have just said to the guy that you and the team member in question were working out differences in styles still and you couldn't make a full assessment or some other hedge (not lie).
The key element of the ethical dilemma is to demonstrate that you can think and navigate challenging situations in which it is not clearcut what you should be doing.
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15 Dec 2011, 15:05
