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the leadership experience

Questions and Answers of The Leadership Experience

Did the organization get what they bought? Is the invoice consistent with the purchase order or contract that authorized the purchase?
Do the ordered products or services match those received by the organization?
8. Treat all persons fairly (ASCE 2018)
7. Continue their professional development
6. Uphold the honor, integrity, and dignity of the profession
5. Build their professional reputation on the merit of their service
4. Act as faithful agents or trustees
3. Issue public statements only in an objective and truthful manner Professional Ethics 135
2. Perform services only in areas of competence
1. Hold paramount the safety, health, and welfare of the public and comply with the principles of sustainable development
8. Read the following situations A, B, and C and then write a brief paragraph for each situation, which answers the following questions:a. Was the initial intent of the person ethical?b. Was the
7. Now consider the situation in which the “elderly woman who sold the ring”is a disagreeable person who is nasty to everyone who steps onto on her property. She is mean to little children and
6. Reread the situation about the “elderly woman and the ring.” Which of the three personal challenges came into play in the decision you chose? Explain how they affected your decision on what to
5. Reread the situation about the “elderly woman and the ring.” Which of the four moral obligations apply to this situation? Explain.
4. Reread the situation about the “elderly woman and the ring.” Explain what you would do and why.
3. Select one of the sources of ethics and values (family, heart, religion, other influences, organizations and clubs, rules, etc.) and describe how it has influenced your values for the “good.”
2. Reread the situation about the young engineer and his expense report for conference fees. What would you do and why?
1. Journal 7: What have you learned in reading this chapter that has changed(for the better) the way you think about ethics?
How they communicate
How they recruit, select, and promote their followers
How they allocate rewards and status
How they react to incidents and crises
What they pay attention to
3. How has becoming aware of these six propositions (see Exercise 2) changed your understanding of managing a project? Did it surprise you that Ethics heads the list? Explain why or why not.
2. The alignment propositions that form the basis for the people-oriented management functions are as follows:Proposition No. 1: Ethical behavior, transparency, and trust Proposition No. 2: Clearly
1. Journal 5: By referring to Figure 5.3—Project Leadership Functions(Duties)—select the six most important leadership functions (in your opinion)that a moral and effective leader must perform.
8. Review Table 4.1 What message did you take away from the discussion on the difference between what supervisors and workers perceived as the workers’motivational factors.
7. Write a paragraph on why leadership training for construction forepersons and superintendents is important to productivity.
Why is it important to you?
What does it mean?
6. Select one of the general leadership techniques from Section 4.2. Explain in your own words:
5. What are the three top characteristics from Tiffany’s story that you will incorporate into your leadership style? Explain briefly why each of the characteristics you selected resonated with you.
What are your options?
What do you think his objectives are?
What are your leadership objectives?
4. You are assigned as an assistant superintendent on a fairly large building construction project. The superintendent has been working for 30 years. He has an eighth-grade education. He considers
What are your options?
What do you think her objectives are?
What are your leadership objectives?
3. You are a project manager on the construction of a guideway for a Maglev vehicle (a train that is lifted and propelled by magnetic force). You have been out of school for six years. It is your
What are your options?
What do you think his objectives are?
What are your leadership objectives?
2. You are a project manager on the construction of a guideway for a Maglev vehicle (a train that is lifted and propelled by magnetic force). You have been out of school for six years. It is your
1. Journal 4: Describe the issues related to leadership in the engineering and construction industry.
5. Allocating rewards based on meeting the objectives (Badger 2018)
4. Providing performance feedback for the group and the individual
3. Clarifying the criteria for effective performance
2. Explaining how to get there
1. Clarifying the expectations and objectives
f. If a third-party representative conducted itself unlawfully, should DII be responsible? Should the CEO or its division managers care?
e. Does a technological breakthrough such as the structural engineering solution for the modular housing units play into the go-no go decision-making?
d. What type of impact does the CEO’s decision have on his division managers’future behavior?
c. Can safeguards be put into place that would allow for an “above board”project approval process?
b. Because business in the three countries has always been conducted this way with the use of a “third party” representatives, does it make it right?
a. Given the circumstances, what decision should the CEO make? Why?
When and how do we assess risk?
How should we think about risk management?
Why is risk management important?
How should we define risk?
4. What do you think the most important constructor productivity factors are(from the list in Table 14.1)? Explain why.
3. What do you think the most important designer productivity factors are(from the list in Table 14.1)? Explain why.
2. What do you think the most important owner productivity factors are (from the list in Table 14.1)? Explain why.
1. Journal 14: Drawing from the factors affecting productivity in Table 14.1, write a one-page journal article on how you, as a newly assigned project engineer, can improve productivity.
e. How should management react to the information?
d. Are there risks in performing too many metrics?
c. What metrics should we select to monitor the effectiveness of the project delivery team?
b. Which metrics should we be the most concerned about?
a. What are the data results indicating with respect to performance outcomes?
7. What is working well? What is not working well (and why)?
6. Does each stakeholder understand team member interests and expectations to facilitate an alignment of interests with the project interests?
. Are the stakeholders aligned with the desired vision for team culture?
4. Is there a shared vision for project success and achievability?
3. Are all critical project delivery elements in place to make this project a success?
2. Does the team understand the basic constructs of an optimal set of project delivery conditions?
1. As a leader, does my team know something I don’t know?
11. Write a sentence or two describing what each of Gostick’s and Telford’s ten characteristics of integrity means to you.
10. Choose one of Gostick’s and Telford’s ten characteristics of integrity and write a one-paragraph summary of what it means to you.
9. Explain how unethical behavior between project stakeholders (project owner, design consultants and constructor, primary trade contractors, and vendors)can adversely affect collaboration and
8. Explain how ethical behavior and leadership mutually reinforce each other.
7. How are ethical behavior and trust related? Explain.Leadership and Ethics 199
6. Ralph, in his capacity as Director of Business Development for his firm, is trying to get on the bid list for the construction of a large office building project for the U.S. Government. Ralph
5. Ralph is the Director of Business Development for a large construction firm.He is trying to get on the bid list for the construction of a large upscale highrise condo project, which is to be built
Explain whether the overpriced change order is in the best interest of the general contractor. What could the general contractor have done to make the change order fairer for the client? Does the
4. Reread the change-order scenario in Section 11.2.2.
Resign.Will one of these options resolve John’s concern for the good of the project(explain)?Will one of these options expose any ethical issues with Bill’s behavior(explain)?Will one of these
Raise the conflict to John’s manager for a decision and recommend that they discuss the alternative proposal with Bill’s management (John will accept the solution that Garrison’s management
Go back to Bill again with a specific, priced, alternative electrical proposal and send a copy of it to John’s manager.
Go along with Bill’s demands.
3. Reread the second example in Section 11.2.3, concerning Garrison Construction Management. John, the leader of Garrison’s field operations, suspects 198 Ethics that Bill’s insistence on using a
2. A client is building an industrial waterfront facility, which requires driving piles in the water. It is to be built in the northeastern United States starting in early January and finishing in
1. Journal 11: Write a journal article on the aspect of leadership and ethics in this chapter that (a) had the most impact on you, and (b) how you plan to implement it in your career-practice of
6. You are the construction manager on a bid preparation team. The day before the bid is due, the planner brings in the integrated schedule for all the major activities. It is 23 months, but the
5. As part of a bid proposal team, you are an engineer developing a fabrication sequence for 11 prefabricated process modules. Part of the sequence requires a heavy lift device. You investigate
Other options?What are the problems with each option? If the owner thinks you kept the cognac, will he expect a favor in return? Are there any good options?
Drink it.
Send or take it back to the owner of the contracting firm who gave it to you, and explain that you can’t accept this generous gift.
Take it to the company compliance officer and discuss what to do about it.
Take the gift to your boss, the CEO of your company, and discuss what to do about it.
4. You are a newly assigned project manager in a Southeast Asian country.Within days of your arrival, you receive a gift of Louis XIII 100-year-old cognac. It is personally delivered by the owner of

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