Ethics in Project Management
Project Management is driven by decisions impacting people, resources, and the environment. Project Professionals need to know how to balance these sometimes conflicting factors.
Ethics is the discipline of “how to do it best,” guiding teams through difficult dilemmas and tough decisions.
Ethics in Action
When ethical concerns arise, take action through our ethics inquiry and review process.
Explore ethics guidelines
From the PMI Code of Ethics and Professional Conduct to an ethical decision-making framework, access tools to help project leaders make ethical choices that diminish risk, advance positive results, increase trust, determine long-term success, and maintain reputations.
Raise an ethics concern
You can address unethical behavior informally, at the chapter level, and formally through the PMI ethics complaint process.
See how we respond
All ethical cases are taken seriously and investigated by the Ethics Review Committee. Its authorized to resolve ethics cases and order remediation.
Have an ethics concern?
Contact the PMI Ethics Insight Team with questions, concerns, or useful ideas. Email [email protected].
Impact of ethical decisions
Being ethical may not increase the net worth of a project practitioner, yet acting unethically will tarnish the core value of one. Acting in an ethical way in everything one does is neither refutable nor negotiable.
Being ethical may not increase the net worth of a project practitioner, yet acting unethically will tarnish the core value of one. Acting in an ethical way in everything one does is neither refutable nor negotiable.