HRM ETHICS ASSIGNMENT

Submitted by Abhinandan Choudhury Hanish Dhume Nishita Tibrewal Prathmesh Joshi Rajat Varshney

Background
In the past there is no such situation in which the company has to face any legal obligation against its safety systems and procedures. We are consistently meeting all the regulatory requirements need to be followed by an insecticides manufacture company. Now we need to take an action that reflects companys responsibility and through which companys image can be maintained. Before taking action on any ethical issues, we need to understand the basic dimensions involving conflicts among different responsibilities that come under human beings, territory etc. The company leaders responsibilities can be divided into four spheres: Personal ethical values, responsibilities as economic agents, responsibilities as organization leaders and responsibilities in cooperative capitalism. Together, these four spheres provide a map of the moral territory of business management. As leaders of the organization, we are responsible and accountable of every output regarding the company. So first of all we need to be ethically sound in our personal actions. It makes our employees feel that the organization is ethical. Personal ethical values consist of the duties, commitments and ideals that shape and guide individuals lives. In many respects, the sphere of private ethics seems to be primary, to represent morality in its trust and most profound sense. This is the first and foremost condition for a company to be ethical in the long term. The ties between the owner of a company and the managers who act as their agents are inescapably moral. Managers as economic agents have an ethical responsibility to use the resources of the company in a way that the owner of the company wants them to be used. It is just like another relationship which carries strong moral weight. It is natural that a situation arises where there is a dilemma between personal ethical values and these economic duties. But a good manager is that who know how to handle these kinds of situations. As organization leaders, business managers exercise enormous power. This power comes with responsibility. This enormous power leads to a strong moral claim that is the obligation not to abuse this power. We are responsible for creating an ethical environment in the company. A companys ethical climate can encourage employees to speak honestly, to treat
each other with respect, to obey both the letter and the spirit of the law and to be responsible citizens of the communities in which the company operates.

Limits of executives responsibilities dont end here; it goes beyond the boundaries of the firm. Extensive cooperative relationships among companies and other organizations create a
new set of responsibilities for business managers.

There are outside groups such as

customers, suppliers, local communities, government agencies and other stakeholders with whom an executive has to maintain relationships. Profitability should not be only criteria to judge the success of an organization; we should also consider cultural values like truth, courage, action and caring.

Outstanding managers are those who are able to devise and execute their plan of actions at the time where these spheres collide with each other.

Personal Ethical Values

- Respect for an individual's life by providing financial and emotional assistance - Keep promise for safety to individual - Drawing a honest picture by telling the truth - Obey laws and allign character and virtue with the values of the company.

Responsibilities as Economic Agents

- Take into account the occupational and safety

hazards - Ensure compliance of regulatory requirements

4 Sphere Framework
Responsibilities as Organizational Leaders
- Decision is going to set the values of the organization

Responsibilities in Cooperative Capitalism

- Assure other factory workers about their safety - Co-ordinate with the trade unions of each plant and arrange training for workers. - Ensure security to investors and shareholders.

- Play a supportive role towards the injured employee and his family by being more employee centric.

Future Course of Action The most important and urgent action which company need to take is in the regard of its employee who is fighting for his life in the hospital. Company is accountable if anything happens to its any employee in the company premises, so it needs to take care of each and every thing required for his treatment. Company should take the pain of making the best care available to him. This action will also help in maintaining the good image of the company. Second thing which company need to do is face the media and take responsibility of whatever happened in the company. It should also give assurance to its stakeholders that it is looking into the matter and come up with the answer as soon as possible. It will take strict actions against the individual/group that is responsible for this output. This will pacify the anger of the employees against the companys policies.

The ethical issue of management is different from other conventional management issues. Just analyzing the situation is not enough for these types of situations. In these situations managers also need to think form ethical and emotional point of views. Company need to take some actions so that it does not have to face similar situation. In summary following are the actions required to be taken by the company: It should spread awareness of the ethical standards to be followed in the company from top to bottom. Employees should be properly rewarded recognizing and properly evaluating not
only their attention to ethics, but also measuring their performance and behaviour otherwise they may decide that ethical behaviour is not worth the effort, because they focus on short-term, quantifiable results.

It should impart proper knowledge and training about the usage of critical instruments. This can also be done by organizing competitions among the employees. Employee who has the maximum knowledge should get rewarded. Regular checks should be performed to verify that each process is following the specified standards. There should be open environment and manager skip level policy. So that an employee can discuss any ethical issue with its super manager if that is in contradiction with the direct manager.