Ethical Practices and Unethical Practices | Human Resource Management

RUNNING HEAD: HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
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Human Resource Management

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Executive Summary
The aim of this report is to discuss the ethical practices and unethical practices related to human
resources and briefly explain the link between human resource department and ethics.
Furthermore, few ways are identified that are used by HR managers in order to minimize
unethical behavior in the organization and to promote ethical practices. Few ways that are help
in to reduce unethical behavior are establishment of straightforward guidelines, promoting
knowledge in individuals through giving ethics training, and Implementing an efficient reporting
system. Moreover, ethical behavior can be promoted by formulation of programs, by using big
data and analytics tools, limiting behavior of employees, ethical culture and by developing
individual personalities in the organization. At last, recommendations are given that includes
should focus on recruiting ethical leader, ensures accountability by implementing strict policies,
and try to create an environment where people can speak, listened and respected for their actions.

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Table of Contents
Introduction......................................................................................................................................3
Ethical and Unethical practices.......................................................................................................3
Link between HRM and ethics........................................................................................................5
Recommendations............................................................................................................................7
Conclusion.......................................................................................................................................8
References........................................................................................................................................9

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Introduction
Human resource management deals with manpower planning and development related activities.
This is branch in any organization where ethics play an important role. As this department
concern human issues related to employee development, compensation, industrial relations and
safety and health issues (Greenwood, 2013). Business ethics are implemented in the human
resources department in order to ensure that ethical practices to be promoted in the organization.
Breach of ethics scenario is mainly seen in HR department some of issues are related to work
ethics, salaries and labor exploitation. This report aims to discuss the ethical practices and
unethical practices related to human resources and briefly explain the link between human
resource department and ethics. Furthermore, few ways are identified that are used by HR
managers in order to minimize unethical behavior in the organization and to promote ethical
practices. At last, recommendations are given for how HR managers can help organisations to
eliminate or minimize unethical behaviour, and strengthen strategies for the adoption of
responsible business practices.
Ethical and Unethical practices
According to Kramar, 2014, “ethics is a special branch of philosophy that focuses on the aspect
of morality and includes concept such as bad and good, wrong and right, righteousness and
fairness”. On the other side HRM is a branch in the management that deals with the variety of
ethical issues in the decision making. The decisions are considered as ethical when various
alternatives are evaluated and its effects on live of employees are considered and after that the
best alternative has been selected that leads to good of more number of people. In the current
business scenario, the ethical practices include employee’s consideration in decision making,