The study is based on description of ethical issues that employees of Occupational Engineering are suffered due to bidding to get Operation Safe Skies Project. The project is based on facilitating air traffic control into US. The study discusses the ethical challenges that both project manager as well as testing engineer faces due to issues into Occidental. Due to identified issues, they are concerned with development of the software which would track the air traffic system. In this report, the ethical issues are identified; potential consequences are identified to the stakeholders, potential breaches of the PMI with the ethical standards. The identified ethical dilemma is resolved and recommendations are suggested to the organization.
Identification of ethical issues in Occidental Engineering case study
Following are the ethical issues which are identified into the case study of Occidental Engineering:
Identification of potential consequences to stakeholders accept the bids and risks
In case if the software engineer, Wayne Davidson missed the deadline to fix the issues, the government should take possible steps against it. It is caused due to some unavoidable circumstances. If the deadline is missed, then the client faces various issues such as it will firstly affect the client’s reputation. The existing issues into the air traffic control system harms integrity of the client towards the current stakeholders (Braswell, McCarthy & McCarthy, 2017). As there is no raise of project fund, therefore it affects the efficiency of the proposed system. It is stated that it was bad decision to accept lower bid to get the air traffic control system. It is due to the reason that the organization does not consist of financial resources to support the proposed project. Due to accepting of aggressive bid, it affects the organizational culture. It affects the view of workers towards the organization.
Identification of potential breaches of PMI ethical standards by project team
There are two types of breaches into PMI ethical standards such as confidentiality as well as conflict of interest. Confidentiality breaches are occurred when the professional leaks the information about the project related information, design and business deal (Reamer, 2015). On other hand, conflict of interest is occurred when there are some misunderstanding and communication gap among the test engineer and project manager.
Examination of PMI code and identification of requirements in the case study
Following are the PMI code which added value to the ethical conduct for the profession of project management.
Honesty: Wayne Davidson is working properly with their co-workers to meet the project deadline (Pollock, 2014). The issues are being identified regarding realistic agreement of the project.
Responsibility: It is the responsibility of project manager to deliver final software on deadline into the contract. It is also responsibility of test engineer to test the software products and analyze the testing results (Reamer, 2014).
Respect: Wayne Davidson as well as other workers have right to treat each other with respect. Wayne has taken a knowledgeable and informed stance into the organization. Each of the workers is responsible to take stance against one who will not follow the PMI codes (Leicester, 2016).
Fairness: It is the issues regarding meeting the deadline, but the workers are trying hard to complete it on time with delivering of proper software (Warren & Burmeister, 2017).
Recommendations to resolve of ethical dilemma
Following are the recommendations for Occidental Engineering to resolve their ethical dilemmas:
Follow ACS code of professional conduct: The organization should follow this particular code to resolve the ethical issues. The first code is to provide first priority to public interest than business interest. The second code is that the employees should work for 8-9 hours in a day into the organization. The third code is that the workers should be honest and fourth is to maintain a better working environment with stakeholders. The fifth is that the occidental engineering should develop company along with the staffs and sixth is stakeholder’s satisfaction associated with project development.
Management support: The employees of Occidental Engineering should discuss their problems and ethical issues with various administrators and management level on top level so that they can take it at highest priority to solve it on time.
Conclusion
It is concluded that both test engineer as well as project manager are concerned with development of software used to track the air traffic control system. The test engineer identified that there are some issues into the system due to presence of huge number of aircrafts. The project has consisted of limited resources as well as time to complete it on scheduled time. The report discussed the ethical issues along with consequences of the issues on the stakeholders. The result of bidding is also discussed with lower cost which affects the reputation of the company. It is recommended that the organization should follow of ACS code of professional conduct to resolve the ethical dilemmas. The ACS code of ethics should help the Occidental Engineering to follow the code so that the organization should success into maintaining a reputation.
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Braswell, M. C., McCarthy, B. R., & McCarthy, B. J. (2017). Justice, crime, and ethics. Taylor & Francis.
Drumwright, M. E., & Murphy, P. E. (2014). Ethical Issues of Social Marketing and Persuasion. The Handbook of Persuasion and Social Marketing [3 volumes], 175.
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