My boss wants me to do his project for his Blue Belt course. For those unfamiliar, Blue Belt is part of Lean 6 Sigma. I am familiar with it, but I don’t even have a yellow certification. My direct manager assigned me to do a project revolving around high scrap, and it turns out the scrap was coming from crew members just straight up not doing their work. There’s 6+ months worth of video footage of them destroying product, parts of the machine, or just in the parking lot slacking off. Whatever, doesn’t matter. Today he pulled me aside and gave me a notebook and a Blue Belt workbook. He instructed me to write it as him (putting his name on the project) and to not tell anyone what I was doing, including the plant director.
I have a gut feeling that I shouldn’t be doing this project, especially since he specified who to not tell. But I’m not sure where to go from here. I’m not qualified, or certified, to be doing this project. And I’m not even sure it should be a project. The issue was identified and the crew members were given an unpaid, permanent vacation from this company. Should I talk to HR? Or just do it and not say anything?