A vendor offers a project manager a personal gift in exchange for preferential approval of change orders on a municipal road project. What is the ethical response?
Select an answer to reveal the explanation.
Short Explanation
Personal gifts for preferential change orders are a hard no—fairness and honesty take the wheel. Refuse the gift and run every change through the same documented process everyone else uses.
Full Explanation
The PMI Code of Ethics emphasizes fairness and honesty; accepting personal gifts for preferential treatment creates a conflict and undermines equitable process. The correct response is to refuse and apply the established change-control process. Quiet acceptance, technical rationalization, or undisclosed redirection still violates fairness and transparency.