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Ethical Issues in Human Resource Management


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1 Associate Professor in MBA, Sankara College of Science and Commerce, Thudiyalur Road, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu - 641035, India
2 Research Scholar (FT), Dept of MBA, Sankara College of Science and Commerce, Thudiyalur Road, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore-641035, India
 

In today's business world, it is evident that the ethics and phenomena in the context of ethics are at the center of the strategic management plans of organizations. Nowadays, enterprises are the entities most intensively utilizing social resources. Such Social resources are the factors of production that is essential and scare in the production of goods and services.This paper aims to summarize the main aspects of ethical issues in human resource management. The noteworthy topics are: how people perceive fairness in organizations and which are those moral rights and obligations of employees which, although not stipulated in the work contract, have a great impact on ensuring an ethical management of human resources? This paper will refer to discrimination in the workplace, moral and sexual harassment and the legal framework governing equal treatment in labor relations. The paper ends with the proposal of an ethical model of human resources management which is inspired by the spirituality of an ancient religion, Zoroastrianism

Keywords

Management Ethics, Equity, Moral Rights, Moral Obligations, Discrimination, Moral Harassment, Equal Treatment, Zoroastrian Model of Ethical Management.
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Authors

S. Sundararajan
Associate Professor in MBA, Sankara College of Science and Commerce, Thudiyalur Road, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore, Tamilnadu - 641035, India
D. Nivetha
Research Scholar (FT), Dept of MBA, Sankara College of Science and Commerce, Thudiyalur Road, Saravanampatti, Coimbatore-641035, India

Abstract


In today's business world, it is evident that the ethics and phenomena in the context of ethics are at the center of the strategic management plans of organizations. Nowadays, enterprises are the entities most intensively utilizing social resources. Such Social resources are the factors of production that is essential and scare in the production of goods and services.This paper aims to summarize the main aspects of ethical issues in human resource management. The noteworthy topics are: how people perceive fairness in organizations and which are those moral rights and obligations of employees which, although not stipulated in the work contract, have a great impact on ensuring an ethical management of human resources? This paper will refer to discrimination in the workplace, moral and sexual harassment and the legal framework governing equal treatment in labor relations. The paper ends with the proposal of an ethical model of human resources management which is inspired by the spirituality of an ancient religion, Zoroastrianism

Keywords


Management Ethics, Equity, Moral Rights, Moral Obligations, Discrimination, Moral Harassment, Equal Treatment, Zoroastrian Model of Ethical Management.

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