Unethical Recruitment
Unethical Recruitment
Wal-Mart vs. Target
Ethics is a very crucial part in businesses especially when it comes to the Human Resource department to recruit ethically. Ethics seeks to address questions about morality, different concepts of what is good and bad, right and wrong, justice, and virtue. (Hirsch, 2010, p.33) Many people associate ethics with their feelings, religion, laws and cultural society but on the contrary ethics is not a matter of one’s feelings nor is it based on religion or society but ethics is a set of standards of right and wrong that ‘prescribe’ what humans ought to do in reference to society, fairness and other specific virtues. It emphasizes the reasonable obligations of refraining from certain actions such as rape, theft, murder, fraud etc. Ethical standards include compassion, honesty, and decency, rights to privacy, freedom and life. (meyer, 2010, p.2). These ethical standards are adequate and acknowledged by the majority of people since they are supported by well founded reasons. Ethics must be enforced into a company so it can function in harmony and as a whole. Many a times organizational ethics is not practiced in the workplace as we find employers abusing their power over their employees. Human resource ethical issues are a major concern to society as no one would want to work for a company that does not recruit ethically. There are a set of ethical standards that an employer must follow while recruiting. We have focused on a few. First and foremost fairness in recruiting can not only benefit the employee but also the company. One must recruit fairly making sure that no one is adversely impacted by the company’s actions. Recruiters must evaluate applicants based on their expertise and knowledge, skills, educational level and work history for the evaluation to be completely fair. For instance recruiting an applicant that is your relative but with no high educational level over an MBA graduate is one of the
Wal-Mart vs. Target
Ethics is a very crucial part in businesses especially when it comes to the Human Resource department to recruit ethically. Ethics seeks to address questions about morality, different concepts of what is good and bad, right and wrong, justice, and virtue. (Hirsch, 2010, p.33) Many people associate ethics with their feelings, religion, laws and cultural society but on the contrary ethics is not a matter of one’s feelings nor is it based on religion or society but ethics is a set of standards of right and wrong that ‘prescribe’ what humans ought to do in reference to society, fairness and other specific virtues. It emphasizes the reasonable obligations of refraining from certain actions such as rape, theft, murder, fraud etc. Ethical standards include compassion, honesty, and decency, rights to privacy, freedom and life. (meyer, 2010, p.2). These ethical standards are adequate and acknowledged by the majority of people since they are supported by well founded reasons. Ethics must be enforced into a company so it can function in harmony and as a whole. Many a times organizational ethics is not practiced in the workplace as we find employers abusing their power over their employees. Human resource ethical issues are a major concern to society as no one would want to work for a company that does not recruit ethically. There are a set of ethical standards that an employer must follow while recruiting. We have focused on a few. First and foremost fairness in recruiting can not only benefit the employee but also the company. One must recruit fairly making sure that no one is adversely impacted by the company’s actions. Recruiters must evaluate applicants based on their expertise and knowledge, skills, educational level and work history for the evaluation to be completely fair. For instance recruiting an applicant that is your relative but with no high educational level over an MBA graduate is one of the