Professional Practice and Ethics Flashcards

A CM suspects that a project inspector they hired is accepting gratuities from a contractor in exchange for passing non-conforming work. The CM should:

Answer: Immediately remove the inspector, investigate, notify the owner, and correct any passed deficient work

Inspector corruption requires immediate removal, formal investigation, owner notification, and remediation of any deficient work that was improperly passed.

Which CMAA ethical tenet requires a CM to advance the profession through mentoring and knowledge sharing?

Answer: Professional Responsibility to the Profession

Professional Responsibility to the Profession encompasses advancing the field through education, mentoring, and sharing knowledge.

When a CM firm partners with another firm on a joint venture project, which ethical obligation applies specifically to the partnership arrangement?

Answer: Each partner firm must ensure the joint venture adheres to the same ethical standards they would apply independently

All firms in a joint venture are collectively responsible for maintaining professional ethical standards throughout the engagement.

A CM is preparing a project completion report and is tempted to omit mention of two significant cost overruns caused by CM errors. Ethically, the CM should:

Answer: Include the overruns with an honest explanation of their causes and the corrective actions taken

Honest reporting requires transparent disclosure of cost overruns and their root causes to support owner decision-making and lessons-learned.

Under professional ethics principles, a CM who is also a licensed contractor in the same state as their CM project should:

Answer: Recuse from the contractor role or disclose the dual capacity and obtain owner consent before any bidding activity

A CM bidding as a contractor on their own managed project is a clear conflict of interest requiring full disclosure and owner consent or abstention.

Which of the following situations requires a CM to make a mandatory report to a licensing board or regulatory authority regardless of client wishes?

Answer: A CM employee witnesses deliberate falsification of structural test records

Deliberate falsification of structural safety records is a public safety matter that overrides client confidentiality and mandates regulatory reporting.

A CM discovers that a project change creates an opportunity for the CM firm to earn a significantly higher fee due to ambiguous contract language. The ethical approach is to:

Answer: Interpret the contract in a manner consistent with its evident intent and disclose the ambiguity to the owner

Exploiting contract ambiguity for personal gain conflicts with the duty of loyalty and honest dealing owed to the client.