Ethics in HRM

External Regulations:

Minimum wage

Overtime compensation

Discrimination

Health and Safety

Privacy

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Internal Regulations:

Explicit standards of rules to be followed

Acceptable and unacceptable conducts

Accepting gifts

Corporate value statements

How employees have to treat one another

How employees have treat customer and
other stakeholders

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Effective value statements:

Must come from top with CEO involved in

its development

Top management must actively

disseminate and practise them

HR to take steps to discourage misbehavior

and encourage to behave ethically

HR to implement and maintain compliance to

create ethical business environment

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Unethical Business Environments can:

Demotivate individuals

Make good employess leave the company

Attract unethical employees

Lack of trust by employees of the company

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Job discrimination

Race; Gender; Responsibilities; Income

Recruitment, promotion and discharge

Sexual harassment

Affirmative action to remove the imbalance

and achieve social goals

Managing diversity

Comparable pay for jobs of comparable worth

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Unions and right to organize

The ethics of political tactics

The caring organization

Employee's family life interface

Couples in the same department

Dual careers

Dislocation/relocation

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Individuals in the organization:

Loyalty and Integrity

Family life interface

Insider trading

Thefts

Reverse diversity

Freedom of conscience: Whistle blowing

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Whistle blowing

Tells on an employer who is breaking the

law to an outsider Government or law
enforcement agency

Whistle blowers are protected by law; he

can not be mis-treated by his employer

Complaining to seniors or others inside is

not whistle blowing