This document discusses ethics in human resource management. It covers external regulations like minimum wage, overtime compensation, and discrimination laws. Internally, companies should have codes of conduct and value statements addressing acceptable behavior. Top management must actively promote ethical values. HR ensures compliance with ethics and discourages unethical behavior. Unethical environments can demotivate employees and attract the wrong people. The document also discusses issues like job discrimination, unions, diversity, conflicts of interest, and whistleblowing protections.

1. Ethics in HRM
 External Regulations:
 Minimum wage
 Overtime compensation
 Discrimination
 Health and Safety
 Privacy

2. 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

3. 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

4. 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

5. 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

6. 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

7. Ethics in HRM
 Individuals in the organization:
 Loyalty and Integrity
 Family life interface
 Insider trading
 Thefts
 Reverse diversity
 Freedom of conscience: Whistle blowing

8. 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

9. Ethics in HRM
 Whistle blowers:
 Satyendra Dubey – Indian National Highways
Authority
 Manjunath – IOC
 Cynthia Cooper – Worldcom
 Sherron Watkins – Enron
 Vijay Bahadur Singh – Ministry of Finance

10. Ethics in HRM
 Whistle blowers:
 Satyendra Dubey – Indian National Highways
Authority
 Manjunath – IOC
 Cynthia Cooper – Worldcom
 Sherron Watkins – Enron
 Vijay Bahadur Singh – Ministry of Finance