Dr. Wael Albawwab
I am an Assistant Professor in Civil Engineering / Geotechnical Earthquake Engineering. I am mainly professional in teaching many courses from 2nd Year Undergraduate Level up to Master's Degree Level.
Location Sultanate of Oman
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Many thanks for all contributors.
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Very informative and helpful. Thanks a lot for your time and effort.
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Thank you very much indeed.
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Strategy in project management and planning starts with mutual cooperation, valid resources, flexible management, and dynamic decision making, along with the availability of: alternative options, adequate skills and tools, and clear responsibilities.
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Evaluate your current situation and identify your future needs. Understand the others' objectives and requirements. Study the related regulations and prevailing conditions. Go for compromise deals with mutual achievable goals.
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In practice, projects' needs are with no doubt to be fulfilled by the management teams. Successful management should achieve this with an acceptable level of satisfaction for personal needs. I believe that the preferred situation for this relationship lies within the straight line starting from "Compromise" till it reaches "Collaborate" in the figure.
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By experience, project managers must be able to anticipate any conflict possibilities within their teams, and once it emerges, without hesitation they have to identify and analyze the conflict from all aspects and impose proper metigating steps to resolve the problem entirely, i.e. the causing sources and the resulting effects.
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Functional and senior management is a critical responsibility to handle since you have to respond, interact, make decisions, study and analyze feedbacks and other reports, motivate, manipulate, and be successfully available to fulfill all the requirements any time and everywhere within your limits of responsibility.
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I do not prefer to be involved in a multiproject situation unless these projects are somehow homogeneous or highly interrelated.
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I am not quite sure about this approach of reducing and buffering by 50%. On what basis, and how could be justifiable with respect to the preliminary study plans of the project...
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I think that this approach of critical chain is applicable for complicated plans of larger scale projects and not for normal ones.
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Recall my comment regarding dynamic project management where you can stretch or shorten task duration, also you may bring earlier or push onwards a task start point or end point. Of course you have to be careful about the project critical tasks and critical progress path.
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I believe that projects with complex plans are somehow critical missions since the successful and proper progress from start to end depends on all the project members and not only the leading team.
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Project managers must always: be aware of all the ongoing progress with respect to plan, potential negative impacts, keep a suitable margin of safety against defective events, try to keep ahead of the assigned project plan, and extract actual guidelines from the project feedback reports.
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Successful motivation for upgrading productivity rate will lead to either a new end date other than the planned one, or a peaceful end with overcoming sudden conditions of project.
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In summary it is very useful if project management team can increase the productivity rate by more resources and/or more working hours. One very helpful way to achieve this is to apply proper motivating ideas.
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As I mentioned earlier, well experienced project managers has to apply successfull and dynamic resource management with respect to project requirements and prevailing conditions.
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Well experienced project managers are capable of optimizing the interrelations among the project cost, time, and quality.
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Over a certain period of time, top management team has to have a very clear vision of the available resources, tools, fund, and staff. Then accordingly they have to select a proper number of projects that can be completed successfully with considering a suitable margin of safety against potential risks and negative effects so not to experience any case of...
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Quality assurance could be done by assuring the client's quality information for accuracy and validity. Quality control could be done by testing the water for contamination level and required specifications. Quality auditing could be done by inspecting the source of water contamination and apply adequate metigating steps.
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Quality assurance, quality control, and quality audit, can be properly applied when you have enough and well experienced team members with adequate tools and active communications.
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Project related information :
Higher level of uncertainties throughout the project plan means higher costs to achieve the required quality of work.
Project team:
Lower level of experience and productivity means higher costs due to extra time and effort.
Project conditions:
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Please be aware that the optimal point is depending on the maximum value of the defect rate and the maximum value of the total failure costs.
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Quality is the level of an ongoing process or an output result when compared to its assigned technical description. Quality is relevant to the project requirements and conditions.
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In fact you can not go out of the borders of the Iron Triangle, but it is a matter of balancing the three axes within the assigned limits to optimize the progress according to the prevailing project conditions till you reach the successful end.
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So far so good. Looking forward more benefits this week.
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To all respectful contributors, it is my great pleasure to express my gratitude for your valuable time and constructive effort. Thank you very much and best regards.
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All your comments are highly appreciated since they provide me support and guidance. Thank you very much.
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Online Education imposes extensive responsibilities on all parties in particular the teacher who is leading the process from start to end. You have to be patient and flexible with full adherence for the course prepared plan and targeted outcomes.
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Thank you all for the great efforts.
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In fact I am applying any new idea from this course directly to my ongoing experience with online education. Also I have been downloading and saving all resource materials and tools for future developments. Thanks again for all your support.
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This week was very supportive and informative. Thanks.
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Very supportive information from different approaches and experiences. Many thanks.
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Very useful and informative week. Many thanks.
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To adhere the project plan and fulfill all the requirements properly, as a project manager I need a team with adequate number and related experiences, enough resources and information, valid communication channels, applicable alternative plans, and suitable prevailing conditions.
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As a project manager and in such critical situations, every team member must clearly understand that we are all in one boat sharing the responsibility towards the same target, and every team member must fulfill the assigned tasks properly according to the applied rules and regulations and with accordance to the prevailing conditions.
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Project managers must have enough experience to know when to use simple humanitarian interrelations for successful leadership and also when to firmly activate the assigned rules and regulations.
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Feedback reports must clearly explain the actual progress against the requirements especially in cases of defective performance. It must focus on the negative points with the corresponding standards and recommended meting methods.
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Motivation is a tool that project management teams may apply to achieve better performance on the project's time and/or budget scale. Motivation is an optional process that can be applied with securing all the project's condition according to the proper requirements to get extra benefits above the project plan. Assigning less experienced members of the project...
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As a project manager, among my team members I have to fairly provide opportunities of: interactive communications, support and development, sharing ideas and resources, and motivation.
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Project managers at all levels must practically prove to their team members that they are leading the team on the right track while providing adequate support for their needs of development and confidence.
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Diversity in project teams is essential due to the different needs to fulfill the different tasks. But it has to be done in a fair manner according to the assigned roles and responsibilities among the project team members.
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Very interesting points. Actually in any project the harmony and homogeneity among project team members would create a positive work environment and hence better performance and smoother progress.
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Very useful video and many thanks to Steve. All roles and duties are to be assigned precisely and concisely with accordance to the project time plan, with providing flexible and dynamic communication channels among related team members.
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In all stages of the project from start to end, each project member must be aware of his current progress situation, his current role and duties, his time plan to adhere, and his direct reference leader.
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In fact successful project management can be nothing else but this model when fulfilling each stage adequately and properly. Project management teams and performance may be affected by the projects' scale and prevailing conditions, but they all have to go through forming, storming, norming, performing and adjourning.
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Thanks for your valuable comments.
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Without the adequate team and tools to fulfill the needs of a well planned project, I truly believe that it is not wise or even honest to take such a risk that most likely it will lead to disappointing losses of time, effort, money, and credibility.
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Each member of the project team must be always aware of the challenges from start to end, and hence each member must have the tadequate skills and experience to adhere and fulfill his role, with full commitment, coordination, and cooperation with the related team members.
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Project team is a group of people who are implementing the project plan from start to end according to the demands of all project stakeholders within the applied rules and conditions.
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Thanks a lot and looking forward more useful information.
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When your students feel and trust that you are their sponsor and guide to successful future then they will be your friends not only students and you can share with them some personal issues and social interactions within the limits of mutual respect and appreciation.
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For teaching in Engineering fields, task based assessment and feedback analysis is the most applicable with high benefiting levels.
The main teacher's mission is to exercise his students how to understand and apply the conceptual knowledge instead of memorizing, then keep supporting them on their ascending track.
The teacher must always utilize the simplest... -
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I usually use:
Many short open source tests,
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I believe in providing a supportive feedback to all my students, with further discussions and explanations for weak points and common advices and applicable recommendations for better understanding and performance. For some special cases I usually go for more support in private without mentioning names so that all students can benefit from the feedback.
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I believe in continuous assessment by short open source tests and with practical reports and open seminars rather than classic major exams. The main idea is to achieve the course outcomes with really laid down concepts and techniques.
I also believe in applying variable levels of assessment tasks from basic knowledge to challenging ideas, with careful... -
Assessments are made meaningful and constructive by taking into consideration the targeted outcomes and applying assessment methods which are compatible with the general perfonce level of the students with updated information and techniques. Feedbacks are made meaningful and constructive by applying real analysis and providing suitable mitigations for the...
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As an online learning student I would select "distractions and competing priorities" since we are not experiencing a pure Teaching/Learning environment and hence so many other issues are intervening in such a negative way that affects my interaction and performance levels as a student.
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I am intending to keep on the same teaching policy, with the flexibility to adopt and integrate any new ideas that would enhance the ongoing process in any valuable aspect or would improve the learning outcomes for the students.
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Thanks for the introductory article (video) and looking forward more useful information in week 3, and wishing the best of luck for all participants.
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More confidence, higher spirits, wider perspectives, and with real motivation. Thank you for your time and effort.
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Linear approach is best applicable for simple and short-term projects or project phases. Iterative approach is to be applied for large scale projects which are usually long term projects with high requirements and interrelated phases.
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In the project planning phase, the details of cost estimates for any project must include a reasonable margin of risks that at least can cover all types of uncertainties throughout the project's life. For abnormal and volatile conditions, if things goes beyond the predefined negative predictions, the project management team has to activate "Plan B" or, if not...
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Yes as I mentioned in my previous post, the project management team must have a flexible performance skills and dynamic planning experience in order to be able to overcome all the challenges and uncertainties.
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I have emphasized such a concept before, where the project management team has to be pragmatic enough throughoyt their project steps from star to end to activate proper tools and techniques from multiple approaches in order to meet the expected and unexpected challenges via different scenarios .
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Related experience, required qualifications, and prevailing conditions are the main factors that affect the project management team's selected approach and expected performance.
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More confidence, higher spirits, wider perspectives, and with real motivation.
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For my region today is the weekend. I have noticed that grades for online teaching is a bit higher for the same group of students than their usual grades in traditional face to face education. Is this a negative sign? and what is the best way to get more realistic assessment results? Thank you for your time and effort.
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Everything went fine and we managed to adhere the time plan with mutual satisfaction and not overstressing any of the participants. Feedbacks reflected a positive general image with high spirits among students.
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I will keep on delivering online education with more confidence and higher spirits, and I will contact your kind team in case of abnormal or unpredictable issues.
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Evaluation and assessment of the level of understanding and thinking skills of students is worked out by group and individual messaging, short tests, open discussions, bonus tasks and presentations, and personal support whenever needed.
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Creative approach is the most useful for teaching Civil Engineering by assigning selected challenging problems and also by advanced reading assignments with briefing reports to help exploring real life problems. This is applied after fulfilling all the requirements of delivering adequate knowledge and understanding different types of examples and solving many...
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In iterative approach it is more applicable to make changes and rescheduling of current phase progress plan in order to confront the volatility and uncertainty within that phase.
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Iterative projects in fact requires much more talented and active project managing leadership to be aware all the time for negative changes and to be supervising and supporting the team throughout the project plan.
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In real engineering practice volatile and/or uncertain conditions are among the most unbearable reasons for project progress deficiencies.
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This approach is best applicable to simple projects or to single phase within an extended project with simultaneous auxiliary plans for other phases for the same project.
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Linear approach is best applied for classical projects with very well defined steps and adequate team and requirements. Iterative approach is applies for complicated phases or extraordinary project implementation plan with complicated requirements and skillful team.
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Project management team is to analyze all feedback reports to predict any possible problems or complications or within the project progress plan so to keep the conflict in its lowest level and hence to be resolved in the simplest and quickest possible way.
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Project managers can lead the process from planning phase with its related studies till the final phase of the project. They need active and professional team, adequate funding resources and plan, positive work environment, clear standards and objectives, availability of successful tools and techniques, and cooperative project stakeholders.
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To avoid potential complexity in any project, the project management team must conduct reliable and detailed studies for all the project's aspects and phases. They have to be sure that their team and partners are qulaified enough to handle all the project tasks in all phases from start to end. This also includes overviewing similar case studies and historical...
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Cost estimates for any project must include a reasonable margin of risks at least to cover potential uncertainties throughout the project. For abnormal volatile conditions, if things goes beyond your negative predictions, the project management team has to activate "Plan B" or if not applicable coordinate with the project stakeholders to either hault the...
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Support by delivering precise and concise knowledge with providing adequate resources and references. Challenge by assessing their skills and give feedback with a clear pathway for improvment to higher levels, and Choice by providing variety of Teaching/Learning methods such as "open discussions" and "open book exams" and "seminars and presentations" and...
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Well prepared practice for developing new skills, Open discussions for enhancing their new knowledge, and Acquisition for improving their self learning experience widening their perspectives.
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I always encourage all my students to do their best, and to contact me in private for any obstacles they might face whether personal or technical, and whether sudden or frequent, and we work together in a very smooth and friendly way to keep them on track with full confidence and satisfaction.
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Declare a clear and applicable course plan. Each lecture is a series of short voice chats with explanatory media files with solved examples in details. At the end of each week students are to complete an assigned task and the due date is fair enough for all of them. Then each assignment is discussed step by step to clarify difficulties. Reading assignments and...
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I apply interactive online learning for exercise and discussion sessions to maximize delivery of knowledge. Offline learning is applied through reading assignments and brief reporting tasks to activate self learning abilities.
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In my environment the PPPs approach is the most applicable, according to my previous practices, since it can achieve the highest level of mutual interaction and overall satisfaction. Feedbacks showed high compatibility between this approach and our learners' performance and skills.
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As a professional academic faculty I believe in updating the education tools and resources employing new technology in mutual communications and engage learners by variety of applications and different approaches with a standby plan for abnormal conditions. This way enables the Teaching/Learning process to proceed and overcome sudden challenges and enriches...
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I have been a professional instructor since 1999 for Civil Engineering Program courses ranging from 2nd Year Undergraduate Level upto Master's Degree Level. Since March 15, I have been using WhatsApp Groups for Online Teaching/Learning tasks. Series of short voice chats with corresponding graphs and schematic diagrams and step by step model solutions are...
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I believe that "Teacher and student interaction" and "Students’ own learning environment" are strongly interrelated due to missing the "Face to Face" positive role within the Teaching/Learning environment.
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We have to be wise and pragmatic enough to keep progressing with all of our life's issues and confronting the new conditions due to the pendemic status by following the related rules and precautions. Take care and keep safe.
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Starting week 2 with high spirits and best wishes for all participants.
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First week has been a marvelous launch with its rich contents and training aspects.
Looking forward the next step.
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The best work environment is valid when the performance of project team members reflects the highest sincerity in their job by providing them confidence, satisfaction, ambition, motivation, and social happiness.
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Project managers should not count on the ethical standards without appkying a very well prepared system of contentious communication with all project team members and all the engaged stakeholders along with periodic progress monitoring and feedback analysis to adhere the right track towards the targeted project goals.
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Advantages:
Helpful, accessible, and flexible.
Disadvantages:
Depends mainly on:
available technologies,
learners' interest and interaction,
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Partners showed high level of honesty and mutual respect and cooperation.
John showed positive altitude by accepting the key idea of Karen to get the best result.
William was conducting a kind of local charity event as part of the project activities. -
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Any decision is directely affected by the decision makers' intentions and experiences, and extremely influenced by the prevailing conditions, and also by the possible alternatives and available tradeoffs.
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Before few decades, Online Education was considered to be somehow of a lower quality and as a second level degree of qualified specialists and workforces. But with time, the huge developments in communication technologies and the new trends of life styles and needs imposed the suitability and compatibility of Online Education Programs and Outcomes with modern...
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Ethics are the boundary conditions for achieving a positive and constructive work environment. In academic work places, the most essential ethical values such as honesty, mutual respect, religious norms, healthcaring principles are to be active all the time at all levels.
