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Thursday 4 April 2019

Ethical Issues Related to HRM

Ethical issues in an organization is common everywhere. People can be compared to a human hand where each finger is different from the other even-though they are from the same hand. Thus in an organization, every employee has different characteristics and behaviours. When these differences are not forborne by each other, there will be an issue between two people or groups. Not only within an organization, these ethical issues can arise between two parties who represent two different organizations such as between an employee and a customer. Somehow all these issues will be a headache to the Human Resource Department.

So let's see what are the main causes of ethical issues in an organization.
  • Personal Behaviour (Neupane, 2017) : because of some people's ill behaviour, another set of people can be emotionally affected, which will lead to a conflict situation.
  • Lack of Integrity: issues arise due to the lack of honesty and fairness in dealing with each other (Lambardo, n.d.), such as hatred, disrespectful conducts, etc
  • Organizational Relationship Problem (Lambardo, n.d.): each person has different levels of relationships with others, because of this, certain issues can arise such as partial decisions, secret gossips, acting for each other's benefit at organization's cost, etc
  • Conflict of Interest: this arise mainly in the environments where people from different countries with different interests work together in one place, issues will arise when the ethical requirements of the organization have less compliance with the interests of people. (Lambardo, n.d.)
Now let's see few ways to overcome these ethical issues
  • Ethical Codes of Conduct: organization can introduce a convenient guideline on how the employees should act at work. (Lambardo, n.d.)
  • Online Complaint Portal: this will enable the people to address their issues freely and secretly as anonymous, which will eventually help the HR Departments to understand and find solutions for the existing issues within their organizations.  
  • Counseling Seminars: this will educate the people about values and importance of ethics as well as will make them understand their faults.
  • Imposing Fines for Unethical Conducts: this is kind of second stage solution which would work for the people who are always with the fighting mentality. 


References

Lambardo, J., n.d. Why Ethical Problems Occur in Business. [Online]
Available at: https://study.com/academy/lesson/why-ethical-problems-occur-in-business.html
[Accessed 3 April 2019].


Neupane, R., 2017. Concept Of Human Resource Management. [Online]
Available at: https://www.slideshare.net/rupeshnyaupane/human-resource-management-74919083
[Accessed 4 April 2019].

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13 comments:

  1. Naz Journals 5 April 2019 at 18:28

    Maazeen, you have taken a topic which is very relevant in contemporary environment and have given some suggestions as a solution
    apart from your suggestion to over come such conflicts my opinion is to introduce team system where all kinds of individuals are included in a team.then organised outward bound training periodically. appraisal system for teams. organised trips and sports events may give more success what do you think?

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    1. Mazeen Mansoor5 April 2019 at 19:30

      Thank you and you have mentioned a valid point to ponder upon

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  2. Nimmitha Kumarasinghe5 April 2019 at 20:18

    Hi Mazeen,As you have expressed,the mindset of people is different from one person to another. The same reason will become the route cause for ethical problems in an organization which You have highlighted it very well,good job,

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  3. Ruwan6 April 2019 at 04:41

    Mazeen. You have explained simple but compulsory practical topic to the all organizations.All the conflicts will happen where there is no any solution. You have given solutions which can be practically applied for the organizations.

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  4. Niyomal6 April 2019 at 06:37

    Mazeen, This is one of the main problem for employee turnovers. HRM should be more careful when deal with these issues. In this article we can see what are the most common ethical issues we can see in an organization and the way how we can address those issues.

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    1. Mazeen Mansoor8 April 2019 at 06:04

      Thank you for the adding Niyomal, indeed this issue increases the employee turnover

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  5. Apsara Wickramarathne6 April 2019 at 13:52

    Concise and well written article where nicely discuss about ethical issues related to HRM and the points how to overcome. Good job Mazeen

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  6. Mazeen Mansoor6 April 2019 at 17:24

    Thank you Apsara for your valuable opinion

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  7. kanchana dissanayaka8 April 2019 at 03:41

    Well.Discuss about the relationship on organization ....

    Want to know more about hr policies to solve this issue please visit https://kanchana0730.blogspot.Com

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  8. Mazeen Mansoor8 April 2019 at 06:40

    Yes the policies you have mentioned in your post should be included in Ethical Codes of Conduct.

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  9. Sanjeewani Adikari8 June 2019 at 19:22

    Ethics are equally important for both employees and employers. Very well discussed about the topic

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