Ethical Issues in Employee Attrition PDF
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1ETHICAL ISSUES IN EMPLOYEE ATTRITIONTable of ContentsIntroduction......................................................................................................................................2Discussion........................................................................................................................................2Employee Attribution..................................................................................................................2Causes of Employee Attrition......................................................................................................4Ethical issues in human resources...............................................................................................5Ethical Values to be Maintained..................................................................................................6Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................7References........................................................................................................................................8Bibliography..................................................................................................................................11
2ETHICAL ISSUES IN EMPLOYEE ATTRITIONIntroduction Employee attrition can be defines as the means by which the employees of anorganization are reduced, the attrition is done through ways like, retirement and resignation. Thishelps the companies to reduce their labor costs. The company waits for the employees to live andfor a specific time it freezes its hiring. There are more severe methods that are used by thecompanies for labor reduction, like mass lay-offs. For increasing the morale of the employees, itis always better to wait for the employees to leave. Another cause of employee attrition is thatsome of the employees are replaced for other better staffs or are transferred to some other higherposition without an increase in their pay. Employee attrition is also seen in situations when thereis limited promotion inside the companies due to fewer jobs, which further leads to attrition andturnover. Thus, the paper discusses about the situation of employee attrition in a workplace andits causes. Further, it analyses the impact of increasing employee attrition in the workplace usingvarious literature related to increasing employee turnovers.Discussion Employee Attribution According to Roberts & Analytics (2015), just like analyzing the potential customers ofthe company and their trends in the market, it is also necessary to analyze the trend and attitudesof the employees in the business environment. Moreover, it has also been stated that analyzingthe employees and the customers of the business is a two different thing. This is because thecompany hires employees and their attitude can be judged while hiring. Moreover, judging the
3ETHICAL ISSUES IN EMPLOYEE ATTRITIONemployee is more important as it impacts the various ethics of the business environment such asabsenteeism, employee turnover and others. Further, it has been also put forward by Vivek, S., & Satyanarayana Rao (2016)that employee attrition shows the inability of the company to retain its employees in theirbusiness environment. This is because the most crucial problem that a company faces is to satisfyits employees and this leads to high turnovers and job switching among the employees. Thisfurther creates ethical issues, as the employees tend to leave the job or move over to some othercompany for similar position without prior informing the employer of the present company.James, M. J., & Faisal, U. (2013) has also discussed that employee attrition is a rate that showsthe turnover of the employees in the company due to various unethical reasons or ethical reasonssuch as job satisfaction, growth limitation, retirement, illness, relocation and others. It is thegeneral flow of employees out of the organization from one company to the other or from onelocation to the other. It is considered as an issue of human resources management as well due tothe ethical problem they create in the organization such as poor work environment, strict policiesand others.The ethical orientation often influences employees’ attitude, has always been an issue ofargument. Moreover, the reason behind the success of any organizational culture is the choiceand implementation of an organizational profile. This can be identified by the core values of theorganization that gradually constitutes to be an important element of the mission of the business.According to the ethical dimension of corporate values, it can be said that corporate culture is anaggregation of ethical values of individual managers and the formal and informal ethical policiesof the organization. Tangthong, Trimetsoontorn & Rojniruntikul (2014) stated that the corporateethical values are not just the combination of all other values that are related to product and
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