Ethics in HRA
- 1. It’s all about Moral Principles……. ETHICS IN HRMSubmitted To: Mrs. Deepshikha Sharma Assistant Professor Submitted By: Dheeraj Rawal (30615210002) Riya Tyagi (30615210009) Garima Jain(30615210013) Yogesh Seth(32215210012) Int. MBA/BBA (IIIrd Year)
- 2. OVERVIEW • INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS • INTRODUCTION TO ETHICS IN HRM • INTERNAL AND EXTERNAL REGULATIONS • EXPLIOTATION OF EMPLOYEE • DECISION MAKING IN HRM
- 3. ETHICS The branch of knowledge that deals with moral principles. Differentiates between Right & Wrong, Good or Bad. (Moral Principles that govern a person’s behavior or the conducting of an activity.)
- 4. ETHICS IN HRM Ethics in HRM indicates the treatment of employees with ordinary attention and distributive justice. The ethical business contributes to business goals as the employee will feel motivated and they will work with efficiency & effectiveness. It deals with the moral obligations of the employer towards employee to maintain equality and equity(fair) justice.
- 5. Ethics in HRM Internal Regulations External Regulations Recruitment and Selection Promotion Job Discrimination Sexual Harassment Consumers Fair Prices False Claims Health and Safety Privacy
- 6. RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION Ethics play very important role during the recruiting process. Some of the common ethical issues are: Not reviewing candidates on the basis of merit. Placing misleading advertisement for jobs. Misrepresenting the requirement of current position. Presenting a expiring offer to a candidate. Faking a relationship with employee. Selecting more than required number of people.
- 7. RECRUITMENT AND SELECTION : CASE STUDY X is graduated with a degree in financial management. X is quite good, although the grades did not reflect this. X not found a job for about a year. Father of X who was a principal in private college is really upset about this and discussed it with owner of a furniture company who supplies materials for college. The furniture owner hires X without going through screening and interview and pay higher wages as compare to other worker. The other employee in the department discovered the reason behind this and X also knows that later on X developed a habit of coming late, giving hard tasks to others, taking long lunch breaks and leaving early. This type of practices demotives the other employees working in the organization as well as impacts the target and goals of the organization. Also it may close relationship with the associate
- 8. PROMOTION The common promotional practices of ethical consideration include: Promotion by choice not by skills. Promotion by person not by performance. Promotion by favour not by merit. Promotion by discrimination not by qualification. Case Study: Hopkins working as a senior manager, having best performance among all her competitors was denied promotion because of partnership status. Her denial of partnership was described as “Walk more femalely, dress more femalely, wear make up, and wear jewellary”Ann Hopkins filed a sex discrimination suit in federal court. In 1990, Hopkins was awarded her partnership and $3,50,000 in damages.
- 9. Job Discrimination Job discrimination is when business decisions, policies or procedures are least partially based on illegal form of discrimination or harm for a certain group of people. • Case Study: Wal-Mart was charged with discrimination against its female employees in compensation, promotions and job assignments in violation of the Civil Rights Act of 1964. Refusing to hire black people, paying women less than men for comparable work, and refusing to give homosexuals promotions are all egregious forms of job discrimination. The plaintiffs alleged that Wal-Mart mistreated women in various ways: • They earn much less than their male counterparts even when they had more experience than men or performed better than them. • The case also alleged that Wal-Mart prevented women employees from advancing by Prohibiting them from working in departments that were traditionally assigned to men (and often paid less).
- 10. Sexual Harassment It implies misconduct or unwelcome behavior towards person at work causing them humiliation and insulted. It can be verbal, non-verbal or physical. • Case Study: Phaneesh Murthy, a top level executive and a director on the company board, was accused of sexually harassing and unlawfully firing his subordinate, Reka Maximovitch. One of India’s best known software executives and a rising star at the time, Phaneesh Murthy had to resign from Infosys in 2002 after his secretary Reka Maximovitch accused him of sexual harassment.
- 11. It is the act of treating one’s workers unfairly for own’s benefit. It is a social relationship based on a fundamental asymmetry in a power relationship between workers and their employers. Making workers overtime without paying them extra wages.
- 12. It is the act of treating one’s workers unfairly for own’s benefit. It can be defined as the process of evaluating decision, either pre or post, with respect to the moral standards of a society’s culture. An ethical decision is one which upholds the most important values of the greatest extent possible is one which uploads the most important values to the greatest extent possible whilst violating the least number possible. The thought process of selecting a logical choice from the available options.
- 13. ETHICAL DECISION MAKING PROCESS Implementation of Action Recommendation of the best solution among the various alternatives. Evaluation of the alternative in terms of SWOT analysis. Development of alternative solution to the problem. Identification of the problem
- 14. LIMITATIONS IN MAKING ETHICAL DECISION Conflicting Moral Standards. Absence of ethical cultural in the organization. Focuses on the profit maximization of business. Lack of ethical leadership in the organizations. Lack of suitable opportunity to practice the ethics. Conflict b/w individual values & organizational goals. Decision making without proper & adequate ethical dimesions.
- 15. Thank you…… Submitted By: Dheeraj Rawal (30615210002) Riya Tyagi (30615210009) Garima Jain(30615210013) Yogesh Seth(32215210012) Int. MBA/BBA (IIIrd Year)