You are a project manager of Software Product Company. After hired a person you got to know ISEB ISEB-PM1 Exam that many of this person's ideas were developed by the competing company. Are you going…

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Options

• AAccept the new ideas.
• BAsk to sign NDA.
• CIgnore the ideas because it may be violation of code of conduct.
• DTell the person that he should not mention that the ideas came from another company.

• A
  73% (11)
• B
  7% (1)
• C
  13% (2)
• D
  7% (1)

Explanation

Option A is correct because general ideas and professional knowledge are not inherently proprietary - when a professional moves between companies, they carry their experience, methodologies, and conceptual thinking with them, which is normal and legal. As a project manager, you should evaluate ideas on their merit; simply knowing an idea originated at a competitor does not make implementing it a legal or ethical violation, since ideas alone are rarely protected IP.

• Option B is wrong because an NDA (Non-Disclosure Agreement) protects your company's secrets from going out, not from stopping an employee from applying knowledge they already possess - it addresses the wrong problem.
• Option C is wrong because ignoring valuable ideas out of misplaced caution is counterproductive; a code of conduct violation requires actual misappropriation of protected assets (trade secrets, proprietary code, documents), not the use of general concepts.
• Option D is wrong because instructing someone to hide the origin of their ideas is itself unethical and could expose you and the company to greater liability than simply using the ideas openly.

Memory tip: Distinguish "ideas" from "assets" - employees can legally bring knowledge and concepts to a new job, but not documents, code, or trade secrets. If the question involves papers, source code, or confidential data, the answer changes; for abstract ideas, accept them.

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