Professional Standards & Ethics Flashcards
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A lean practitioner certifies a supplier's process as capable after reviewing outdated data to meet a project deadline. This violates which professional standard?
Answer: Due diligence and data integrity standards
Certifying a process based on outdated data compromises quality assurance and violates the professional duty to verify current, accurate information before making official assessments.
When a lean improvement creates an unsafe ergonomic condition that passes existing safety checks, the practitioner's ethical obligation is to:
Answer: Proactively flag the ergonomic risk and initiate a corrective action
Professional ethics in lean require practitioners to act on identified safety risks even when regulatory minimums are technically satisfied.
Which behavior violates the lean principle of 'long-term thinking' from an ethical standpoint?
Answer: Cutting employee training budgets to hit a short-term cost reduction target
Sacrificing capability-building investments for short-term financial metrics is ethically inconsistent with lean's foundational commitment to sustainable, people-centered improvement.
A lean practitioner is asked to sign off on a value stream map she did not personally verify. The most ethical response is:
Answer: Refuse to sign until she has personally verified the data
Professional sign-off implies personal verification; signing unverified work misrepresents the practitioner's due diligence and can mislead downstream decisions.
In a lean transformation, which action would constitute an ethical breach of confidentiality?
Answer: Sharing a client's proprietary process maps with a competing client
Sharing a client's proprietary operational data with competitors violates confidentiality obligations and professional ethics regardless of the intent.
A lean manager notices that standardized work instructions create a productivity bottleneck but keeps them unchanged because changing them requires approval. This behavior reflects:
Answer: Passive acceptance of waste that violates the kaizen spirit
While respecting change control, lean professionals have a professional obligation to actively pursue legitimate channels for removing identified waste rather than passively accepting it.
Which situation best illustrates 'ethical drift' in a lean program?
Answer: Incrementally lowering data accuracy standards because prior deviations went unchallenged
Ethical drift occurs when small, unchallenged deviations from standards accumulate into significant breaches — in this case, normalized inaccurate reporting.