3. Human resource management (HRM) is the
practice of recruiting, hiring, deploying and
managing an organization's employees. HRM is
often referred to simply as human resources . A
company or organization's HR department is
usually responsible for creating, putting into effect
and overseeing policies governing workers and the
relationship of the organization with its employees.
4. • Ethics in HR is responsible
for channelizing the
human resources of an
organization via a code of
ethical and professional
standards to get
immaculate solutions to
all ethical issues and
ensure the ethical success
of the organization.
5. Ethics in recruitment
• False advertisements
• Unethical employee referral
practices.
• Hiding the actual work condition
from new employees
7. ETHICS IN TRAINING AND DEVELOPMENT
• Stand For Something
• Identify The Different Types Of Ethical
Training You Can Include
• Get Your Leadership Involved
8. ETHICS IN PERFORMANCE ASSESSMENT
• Favouritism and organisational politics
• Rating errors
• Unethical managerial practices
• Passing the buck
• Internal conflict
9. Cash and incentive plans
• Base salaries
• Annual incentive plan
• Long term incentive plan
• Executive perquisites
10. Example
Your senior officer highly recommend for a person during selection
process, but that person unfit for that job, what you will do? Will you
select that person directly for happiness of your senior? OR Put that
person in recruitment process with others?
• If the candidate does not meet the minimum criteria for selection
go back to your senior, provide evidence of the selection scores
and feedback, state the reasons why the candidate cannot be
recruited and ask him/her to propose an alternative candidate
11. THE RETRENCHMENT DRAMA, JET AIRWAYS (INDIA)
Airways case is about the retrenchment drama that unfolded in one of
India's leading aviation companies, Jet Airways (India) Limited in Oct
2008
• More than Thousand employees were laid off.
• It was a part of major Cost- cutting exercise to tackle Global
slowdown and price hike of Aviation fuel.
12. • Employees were FIRED with no PRIOR NOTICE.
• The entire force of unconfirmed staff was being laid off on a 30-day
compensation package
• Company took action only against lower staffs.
13. WHY IT WAS WRONG
• The very existence of any company is because of its
employees.
• Company keeps on focusing on customer satisfaction
when its own people are so highly dissatisfied.
• Employees are more than just-a-resource.
14. HOW HRM PROMOTES HR ETHICS
• Improving recruitment and
selection tests
• Channelizing ethics training
• Incorporating rewards,
disciplinary, fair, and transparent
system
15. How to Implement Ethics in Human Resources
Stay informant of
the laws
Give professional
development a
priority
Be an ethical
leader in the
organization
Understand the
various conflict of
interest that arise
Implementation of
inclusion and
diversity principles
16. CONCLUSION
Ethical issues are burning issues in the field of human resource
management. Ethical issues may arise in every organization such as
employment issues, safety issues, performance appraisal, equal
treatment and opportunity and many more. Such issues lead to the
situation of conflict in the workplace so for the maintenance of
conflict ethical practice must be conducted in the organization. An
ethical behavior of managers helps to determine what is right and
what is wrong. Ethical practice and codes of conduct help to punish
the guilty and appreciate the right one. Without the implementation
of ethics for the management of human resources in the
organization then stated success cannot be achieved. Business ethics
must be implemented and maintained by the organization for better
performance and for providing justices.
