ICRMP UK
Our Ethics
The code will apply to all members of ICRMP, irrespective of their grade, the professional role they fulfill, and the countries in which they practice. Being a member of the ICRMP is a badge of probity and good faith, and members should do nothing that in any way could diminish the high standing of the profession. This includes any aspect of a member’s personal conduct which could have a negative impact upon the profession.
Rules of professional conduct
Members shall discharge their professional duties with integrity. This rule includes the requirements to:
- Be truthful and honest in dealings with clients, colleagues, other professionals, and anyone else they come into contact with in the course of their duties.
- Carry out their professional duties with complete objectivity and impartiality.
- Have due regard to their duty of care to clients, colleagues, the ICRMP and its members.
- Declare conflicts of interest.
- Avoid unacceptable self-interest which is defined as where a member is acting (or permits or encourages the presumption that s/he is acting) on behalf on the ICRMP and uses his or her position to promote his or her interests to the detriment of the interests of ICRMP or its members.
- Have due regard to their duty of confidence in relation to all parties with whom they have dealings as part of their professional duties.
Those carrying out the business of ICRMP shall have an absolute duty to maintain the confidentiality of all information acquired in the
course of their duties which is, or could reasonably be supposed to 10 be, confidential, except in so far as it is necessary to discharge those
duties. - Show due consideration for other colleagues and for other persons with whom they have dealings in the course of their professional duties. Members must treat all persons without bias and with respect.
- Members must not, directly or indirectly, improperly attempt to supplant another person, and should take all reasonable steps to establish that any previous engagement in relation to the project they are to enter into has been terminated.
- When commenting on another person’s work, members must advise that person of their involvement, except for routine or statutory checks or where the member’s client or employer requires confidentiality.
- When competing with other professionals, and when taking actions likely to adversely affect the professional or business interests of another person, members must not act maliciously or recklessly.