Ethics and Human Resource Management

1. Ethics and Human Resource Management Chapter 18

2. Objectives • After reading this chapter you should know: • The significance of ethics at work • The concept of ethics and its interpretation • The reasons for unethical behaviour • The place of ethics in HRM • How to manage ethics and agencies that help enforce them

3. Why Ethics • Responsibility towards clients • Responsibilities towards the profession • Responsibility towards society

4. Ethics- Conceptual Framework • Ethics is important for the overall health of an organization. • Ethics is a set of principles prescribing a behavioural code that explains what is good and bad and right and wrong

5. Some Approaches to Ethics • Legality and Ethics • Cognitivism Vs. Non-Cognitivism • Religious Morality • Means Vs. Ends • Relativism Vs. Absolution

6. Reasons for Unethical Behaviour • Individual Driven • Lying • Greed • Bribery • Embezzlement • Systems Driven

7. Ethics and HRM • Recruitment and Selection • Training • Performance Appraisal • Reward System • Sexual Harrassment

8. Managing Ethics • Kenneth Johnson suggest The EPIC Approach • E- empathy • P- patience • I- Integrity • C- courage

9. Managing Ethics cont.. • Dean suggests the 7 criteria approach to managing ethics • Clarity • Information • Rationality • Equity • Universatality • Impartiality • Integrity

10. Agencies ensuring ethical practices • Professional Associations • Public Interest litigation (PIL) • Public Grievance system