Ethics and morality are concerned with “good” and “wrong” behavior. Despite the fact that they are sometimes used interchangeably, they are distinct: Ethics refers to regulations established by a third party, such as workplace codes of conduct or religious values. Morals are a person’s personal beliefs about what is right and wrong. External standards set by institutions, communities, or cultures to which an individual belongs are referred to as ethics. Lawyers, police officers, and doctors, for example, must all adhere to an ethical code established by their profession, regardless of their own feelings or preferences. Ethics can also be thought of as a social system or a set of guidelines for acceptable conduct.
niversal and comprehensive definition (Reiss, 2007). Gardiner (2005) defines a project as a transitory and exceptional activity that utilise scarce resources to generate benefits for stakeholders amid uncertainty and complexity. A project is a temporal alliance that deals with distributing capitals to prospects that are capable of creating a positive change (Turner, 2014) Similarly, a project is a short time venture embarked on to attain a valuable outcome, product or services (Project Management Institute 2008) (Association of Project Managers 2012).
2.2 Project Management.
Project Management has no universally accepted definition and it is a relatively new genre of study (Pellegrinelli, 2011). According to Kerzner (2013), project management is the actualisation of a business’s objective and goals through planning, directing. Organizing and adequate management of accessible resources. The Association of Project Management (2012) states that project management is the use of processes, systems, information, skills and experience for the accomplishment of project goals.
2.3 Project Success
Project success is a concept in project management that is hard to define due to the uncertainty of the factors that necessitates project success (Papke-Sheilds, Beise and Quan, 2010). Apparently, the conventional yardstick of project success based on the Iron triangle’s criteria of cost, time and quality; which appears unreasonable and rigid is of a lesser priority and a more realistic modern approach of measuring success; which entails the ability of a project to create value and stakeholders’ satisfaction; is now the criteria for measurement of project success. (Muller and Jugdev, 2012). According to Stingl and Geraldi (2017), one of the essential element for project success in the management of project is decision making, which considers the most appropriate strategies for the pre- conception to post- completion phases of the project.
2.4 Decision Making
Decision-making is the powerhouse of every project; decisions made at pre-conception, in-project and post -project stages of the project, defines the ultimate success of the project (Stingl and Geraldi 2017). The Business Dictionary (2018) defines decision-making as the logical selection of the most appropriate option from available alternatives. Similarly, Merriam Webster Dictionary (2018) states that decision-making is the act of making decision particularly with a group of individuals. Tiwary (2013) describes
