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Ethics in HRM: External Regulations

The document discusses ethics in human resource management. It outlines both external regulations like minimum wage, overtime compensation, and discrimination laws as well as internal regulations such as value statements and codes of conduct. Effective value statements must be developed with CEO involvement and actively communicated and practiced by top management. The human resources department is responsible for implementing compliance and maintaining an ethical business environment to avoid issues like demotivated employees and attracting unethical workers. Unethical practices can include discrimination, sexual harassment, lack of diversity, and improper treatment of whistleblowers.

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Ethics in HRM: External Regulations

The document discusses ethics in human resource management. It outlines both external regulations like minimum wage, overtime compensation, and discrimination laws as well as internal regulations such as value statements and codes of conduct. Effective value statements must be developed with CEO involvement and actively communicated and practiced by top management. The human resources department is responsible for implementing compliance and maintaining an ethical business environment to avoid issues like demotivated employees and attracting unethical workers. Unethical practices can include discrimination, sexual harassment, lack of diversity, and improper treatment of whistleblowers.

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Ethics in HRM

External Regulations:

Minimum wage

Overtime compensation

Discrimination

Health and Safety

Privacy

Ethics in HRM

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

Ethics in HRM

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

Ethics in HRM

Unethical Business Environments can:

Demotivate individuals

Make good employess leave the company

Attract unethical employees

Lack of trust by employees of the company

Ethics in HRM

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

Ethics in HRM

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

Ethics in HRM

Individuals in the organization:

Loyalty and Integrity

Family life interface

Insider trading

Thefts

Reverse diversity

Freedom of conscience: Whistle blowing

Ethics in HRM

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

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