Ethics in Human Resources Management

Human resource management deals with manpower planning and development related activities in an organization.It concerns human issues specially those of comensation, development, industrial relations and health and safety issues.

MEANING OF HRM

HRM can be understood in simple terms as employing people , developing their resources , utilizing ,  maintaining and compensating their services in tune with the job and organizational requirements with the view to contribute to the goal of the organization , individual and the society.

MEANING OF ETHICS 

Ethics are those values, which has been imbibed within an individual on reinforced externally that help him to distinguish between right and wrong and to act accordingly .

Ethical issues

• Employment Issues: HR professionals are likely to face maximum ethical dilemmas in the area of hiring of employees.
• Employees Discrimination: A framework of laws and regulation has been evolved to avoid the practices of treatment of employees on the basis of their caste, sex, religion, disability, age etc .
• Performance Appraisal : Ethics should be the basis of performance evaluation. highly ethical performance appraisal demands that there should be an honest assessment demands that there should be an honest assessment of the performance and step should be taken to improve the effectiveness of employees. however , HR managers, sometimes, face the dilemma of assigning higher rates to employees who are not deserving them ; based on some unrelated factors .
• Privacy: The private life of an employee which is not affecting his professional life should be free from intrusive and unwarranted actions.
• Safety and health : Industrial work is often hazardous to the safety and health of the employees. legislations have been created making it mandatory on the organization and managers to compensate the victims of occupational hazards .                                           

Unethical issues

• Employers: (i) Creating split in union leader by inducing regionalism , casteism or ego problems.(ii) not caring for just demands of the trade union and not behaving respectfully with union leaders.
• Employees: (i) False claim of age , qualification and experience . some even forge marks cards to claim certain qualifications.(ii) Taking decision very slow or very fast to suit conveniences of own kith and kin.
• Government Agencies : Functioning of government employment offices is not transparent , not reliable and in fact its purpose is not well served .
• Manpower Consultants: By and large manpower consultants do a good job as mostly they are hired by the private organizations. moreover their services are mostly for official posts and there is no statute to follow rules of reservations.
• Discrimination: Discrimination is one of the oldest unfair practices going on all over the world in both formal and informal way of working. it is practices in organisations covers unequal treatment between individuals and groups and men and women .