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