Imagine going to work as a Human Resource Manager, and then later find out that you are doing something wrong on how you hire people. In fact, you later find out that you are breaking the law through discriminating others as well as getting reprimanded from your CEO. These are some of the areas that are worth paying attention too, especially when it comes to ethics.
Here are some suggestions on knowing whether or not you are hiring people ethically within your organization. First, policy and procedure allow you to act unethically. For example, you see that in the employee handbook that when people are hired or terminated within their position that the company does not take responsibility. This may mean that they actually play favorites, and treat those who work for them as numbers and not as individuals. Second, one will notice that they have a lot of flexibility on how they choose to hire others. An individual is then able to make sure that they do everything possible to make it difficult on the employee to get hired, so they do it based off looks. When this occurs, he or she needs to re-evaluate themselves, and decide if what they are doing is right or not. Third, the HR Manager breaks federal and state laws by discriminating against others. This is done through their age, education and experience. Eventually, the employees will catch on to the practices of management, and the turnover rate will increase, which means a loss of revenue for the firm. All of these are signs that something is going terribly wrong, and that management is acting unethically, especially the HR Manager.
A variety of suggestions are needed to make sure that you are hiring people ethically. You may need to attend ethics classes at a local community college. Another suggestion is to actually change policy and procedure within the organization in which you work at on a regular basis. The last area is to ensure that you are obeying federal and state laws. When all of these are used effectively, then people are getting treated equally. In the end, the business will prosper by gaining more profit, and there is a less of a chance that they are going to lose customers in the process, which makes these changes all the more important.
Elizabeth Mattke is currently working on her DBA through Columbia Southern University, and has obtained her Master of Liberal Studies through Fort Hays State University. She is happily married, and has her own Scentsy business. Her passion is in teaching and writing, and has published three articles in 2010 through Franklin Publishing Company.
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