Ethics in human resource m

anagement

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• HRM involves recruiting , hiring, deploying and rewarding
the employees within an organisation

• It is an internal process of an organisation

• Every organisation run on certain HR policies and practices

• It is a staff function

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 Ethics in hrm

• Ethics in HRM should take care of the following :

1. Discrimination against sex, race, religion etc..

2. Compensation

3. Union and labor laws

4. Health and safety of employees

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 Types of unethical practices in HRM

• Recruitment and selection

• Job promotion

• Job discrimination

• Employee privacy

• Sexual harassment
 Recruitment and selection

• This involves unjust selection procedure. Eg: selecting

employees who lack job specifications

• Inappropriate selection panel who are not well qualified to

judge candidates

• Biased panel who select candidates that are known or

favourable to them

• Asking humiliating questions in the interview

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 Job promotion

• Promoting employees of their own choice and not by

competence

• Employee promotion without taking consideration of their

performance

• Promotion by discrimination and not by qualification

• It also involoves promotion of employees by favor without

considering the merit
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 Job discrimination

• It is an act in which employers deprive employees of some

benefits and opportunities. They are based on

1. Gender
2. Age
3. Race
4. Religion

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 Employee privacy

• Physical privacy: privacy with respect to physical activities

that are culturally important

• Social privacy : privacy with respect to the employee's

freedom to interact socially

• Psychological privacy : privacy with respect to employee's

internal values, choices and beliefs

• Informational privacy : privacy with respect to private

information of employee

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 Sexual harassment

• Teasing and exploiting the employee because of the gender

they belong to

• This especially involves sexual exploitation of women by ill

and unjust treatment

• This is mostly seen In organisations where there is less

empowerment of women

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 Case of sexual harassment at work
place

• Harvey Weinstein sexual scandal

• Accused of rape, sexual assault and sexual abuse

• More than 90 women from film industry came out accusing

him for his acts over a period of 30 years

• Lead to the #me too movement which gained attention of the

whole world

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 Case of unethical recruitment process

• Case of skip the dishes , a food delivery service in canada

• Taylor Byrnes tweeted about her experience applying for a

job ,where an innocuous question about salary led to the
interview process being cancelled altogether.

• She had successfully completed a telephone interview and

was rejected for sending an email asking about
compensation.

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 Case of employee privacy

• Case of kmart corporation distribution Center in Illinois

• The employees filed lawsuit against the company accusing

them of hiring a private agency to gather personal
information of it's employees.
• 43 Employees started agitation by saying "they were spying
on me"
• This eventually lead to shut down of the branch in Illinois

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 Laws against unethical practice im hrm

• Workmen compensation act, 1923

• Sexual harassment of women at work place act, 2013

• Employee privacy act, 1974 ( US Law)

• Labour relations act

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 THANK YOU

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