business ethics mod 2
Business Ethics (BUS 560) Module 2
Check Your Understanding:
1. Consider the functional departments reviewed in chapter 3. Which department do you think faces the greatest number of ethical challenges? Why?
I think human resource department faces the maximum number of ethical challenges.
The human resources function within an organization should ideally be directly involved in the relationship between the company and the employee throughout that employee’s contract with the company. Each of these activities demands transparency and very challenging from an ethical perspective.
The creation of the job description for the position.
The recruitment and selection of the right candidate for the position.
The orientation of the newly hired employee.
The efficient management of payroll and benefits for the (hopefully) happy and Productive employee.
The documentation of periodic performance reviews.
The documentation of disciplinary behavior and remedial training, if needed.
The creation of a career development program for the employee.
HR department should coordinate final paperwork and should host an exit interview to ensure that anything the organization can learn from the departure is fed back into the company’s strategic plan.
If the right people are hired in the first place, it is believed, many other problems are avoided down the road.
Many advocates of ethical business conduct argue that HR should be at the center of any corporate code of ethics – not as the sole creator of the code, since it is a document that should represent the entire organization
HR professionals must help ensure that ethics is a top organizational priority.
HR must ensure that the leadership selection and development processes include an ethics component.
HR is responsible for ensuring that the right programs and policies are in place.
HR must stay abreast of ethics issues
The finance function of an organization can be divided into
Check Your Understanding:
1. Consider the functional departments reviewed in chapter 3. Which department do you think faces the greatest number of ethical challenges? Why?
I think human resource department faces the maximum number of ethical challenges.
The human resources function within an organization should ideally be directly involved in the relationship between the company and the employee throughout that employee’s contract with the company. Each of these activities demands transparency and very challenging from an ethical perspective.
The creation of the job description for the position.
The recruitment and selection of the right candidate for the position.
The orientation of the newly hired employee.
The efficient management of payroll and benefits for the (hopefully) happy and Productive employee.
The documentation of periodic performance reviews.
The documentation of disciplinary behavior and remedial training, if needed.
The creation of a career development program for the employee.
HR department should coordinate final paperwork and should host an exit interview to ensure that anything the organization can learn from the departure is fed back into the company’s strategic plan.
If the right people are hired in the first place, it is believed, many other problems are avoided down the road.
Many advocates of ethical business conduct argue that HR should be at the center of any corporate code of ethics – not as the sole creator of the code, since it is a document that should represent the entire organization
HR professionals must help ensure that ethics is a top organizational priority.
HR must ensure that the leadership selection and development processes include an ethics component.
HR is responsible for ensuring that the right programs and policies are in place.
HR must stay abreast of ethics issues
The finance function of an organization can be divided into
References: Andrew Ghillyer (2011). Business Ethics Now. McGraw-Hill/Irwin, 3 edition Lisa Newton, Elaine Englehardt, Michael Pritchard (2011). Taking Sides: Clashing Views in Business Ethics and Society. McGraw-Hill/Dushkin,12 edition. M. R. Vickers (2005), “Business Ethics and the HR Role: Past, Present, and Future,” Human Resource Planning ERC, “Creating a Workable Company Code of Ethics,” www.ethics.org, 2003.