1. Project manager - Professional
Responsibility

2. Supplement – Professional Responsibility
• Objectives in this process area
– Insuring Integrity and professionalism
– Contributing to the project management knowledge base
– Enhancing individual competence
– Balancing Stakeholders’ interests
– Interacting with team and stakeholders in a professional and cooperative
manner
• Understand Project Management Professional Code of Conduct
– Ethics
– Legal Issues
– Cultural Sensitivity
– Managing conflicts of interest

3. Supplement – Professional Responsibility
• Integrity and Professionalism
– Understand the legal requirements surrounding the
practice of projects
– Know ethical standards that should govern the behavior of
project managers
– Comprehend the values of the community and the various
project stakeholders
– Practice proper judgment in the pursuit of successful
project work
– Compliance with all organizational rules and policies
• Upon a reasonable and clear factual basis report violations
• Responsibility to disclose circumstances that could be construed
as a conflict of interest or appearance of impropriety

4. Supplement – Professional Responsibility
• Integrity and Professionalism
– Provide accurate and truthful representation to the public
– Maintain and satisfy the scope and objectives of
professional services
– Maintain the confidentiality of sensitive information
– Ensure a conflict of interest does not compromise
legitimate interests of client/customer or interfere with
professional judgment
– Refrain from accepting gifts, inappropriate payments,
compensation for personal gain unless in conformity with
applicable laws or customs

5. Supplement – Professional Responsibility
• Contribute to advancing the project management
profession
– Overall understanding of project management principles
– Understand the community and media surrounding
projects
– Knowledge of research strategies available and proper
communication techniques
– Learn to communicate and transfer knowledge effectively
as a coach and mentor and to use available research
strategies
– Respect and recognize intellectual property

6. Supplement – Professional Responsibility
• Enhance Individual Competence
– Understand the project manager’s strengths and
weaknesses and learning style – become aware of
instructional processes and tools
– Know the useful competencies for project managers and
possible training
– Be able to perform self-assessment and competencies
development plan
– Ability to apply lessons learned

7. Supplement – Professional Responsibility
• Balance Stakeholder’s Objectives
– Understand the various competing stakeholders’
interests and needs
– Comprehend the conflict resolution techniques
useful in handling differing objectives
– Be able to resolve conflicts in a fair manner
– Exercise negotiation skills based on proper
information

8. Supplement – Professional Responsibility
• Interact with team and stakeholders in a
professional and cooperative manner
– Understand cultural diversity, norms and
stakeholders’ communication styles
– Show flexibility towards diversity, tolerance and
self control
– Becoming empathetic to differences