From the course: Project Management Foundations: Ethics

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Solution: Ensuring fairness

Solution: Ensuring fairness

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Solution: Ensuring fairness

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- In the last video, we explored the situation with Francine and CB Solutions who are working on a project to implement robotics on their newest manufacturing line. Francine and her project team are starting their project by distributing a request for proposal or RFP to four reputable robotics companies including a company they have frequently worked with in the past called Robo Now. At the conclusion of our discussion, I asked Francine what she should watch for to be certain the RFP evaluation process was executed ethically. Given my experience there were two concerns with Francine's situation. The first is that she and her team won't actually get the opportunity to apply the scoring model objectively. Management intervention or pressure to sway the outcome would create an ethical fairness issue. This could result in conscious or unconscious bias. This decision might also hurt the company. As it's possible, the best robotic…

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