Project proposal:

An Investigation of impact of ethical behaviour (Honesty) of Project manager's towards perspective project team.

Problem Statement

Organisation creates the code of ethics and the project manager is works as a conductor to serve that value throughout the organisation as shown in fig.1. (Cassell, 1997)

Carson etc. (1982) defines the major difference between misleading and lying behaviour of managers. According to Carson misleading is mean to force person to believe in the fact that is actually not true whereas lying means always mislead the team by verbal way as and it is not necessary that every misleading is lying. In this study observe project manager's ethical behaviour characteristics and its influence on project team (Finegan, 1994). Ferrel, Fraedrich and Ferrel, (2015) stated the characteristics of ethical project managers:

1) Strong individual characteristics

2) Passion to do right

3) Proactive

4) Consider all stakeholders' interests

5) Ethical managers are role model for organisation values

6) Transparent and decision maker

7) Consider the holistic view of firm's ethical value

In organisation main component of manager in ethical behaviour is honesty towards organisation (Grover, 1993). He/She is the intermediate person link the higher management with team members. If at the star level of process PM guide on untrusted path, it is clear that organisation going to lose its value and believes from market.

4. Research Question

The focus of study is on ethical behaviour of project manager/leaders. Considering that there are number of ethical behaviour are there but main of this study is considering the honesty of project manager.
RQ 1: What are the characteristics of honest project manager towards to organisation?
The answer of the above question provides the solution and reason behind the lying of project manager.

5. Aim and Objectives

5.1 Aim
The main reason behind this case study is to examine the honesty of project manager towards organisation. Project manager should make interest to stakeholders and team members to continuous focus and direct in the path of goal. (Shouche, 2008)

5.2 Objectives

These are the following objectives of case study:

a) Identify the ideal honest project managers characteristics

b) Identify the responsible characteristics of PM towards his project team

c) Explore the ethical leader's loyalty with team with perspective to responsibility.

Attachment:- Project proposal.rar