Successful team leaders must equip their organizations with the strategies, structures, and personnel to compete in a constantly changing environment. There can be a number of ethical dilemmas arising during the course of work. Let us discuss my role as a team leader and what problems I faced and how I encountered the problems and made decisions. .
Just got promoted, as a team leader working with entirely new team members and handling altogether a new project was a challenge. The project was to build up an application on the server for a computer hardware company for recording all daily sales and purchase transactions and also record distributors information in the database. Before the start of the project , I arranged for the teams to gather several times so we could become acquainted with each other and understand each member's area of expertise. After investigating all of the members" skills, I created teams from small groups of volunteers, carefully distributing teammates so that their skills were equally divided among groups. .
After a close study of the project, I found that one of my member in quality assurance department is presenting false test reports that everything is being tested in order to look better in the eyes of his superiors. Now this was a serious issue as I was responsible for the project done precisely and on time. I could not overlook my team member's behavior, but was it right for me to report his actions to the director? False reports could cause serious issues and complications in the project. The project was going to be active in two week's time frame and the testing was not yet done, and if there were any mistakes it would cost a high amount to the company and would also affect is reputation.