Question

Analyze one (1) human resource ethical issue that you believe is prominent in today’s organizations. Suggest two (2) approaches that organizations could take in order to resolve this issue. Provide a rationale for your response. Rank the major ethical issues and dilemmas in business in order of importance (one [1] being the most important). Provide a rationale for your response.

Answer 1

Solution:

Human resource is an integralpart of any organization because they directly manage the workforce of the business to ensure business flows smoothly. There are severalethical considerations as far as the job of a HR professional is concerend. These ethical issues deal with the general HR practices and how they are argued to be under ethical consideration. We consider one such ethical issue here.

The most common ethical issue that is observed in today's world as far as HR profession is conerned is the use of data by the HR professionals. The HR professionals have access to the personal, medical data of all the employees and this data can be of imense importance to many other organizations. Hence, the protection of this data from being stolen is a concern for any HR professional. Hence, the ethical issues rise when HR professionals trade such data to other organizations for monetary benefits and hence is a big ethical issue.

To avoid such ethical issues the organization can have a secured software architecture that will keep the data of the employees secured and notify agaisnt the theft of data. There are many security tools that help the organization to curb the lickage of data from the organization. Another way could be to have only a select few employees with access to such data and thus it becomes easy to monitor the data when only a few people have access to it. Hence, these are two common considerations that are followed widely across organizations with crucial data.

The top five major ethical dilemmas in business are as follows,

• Using unethical practices to boost the bottom line of the company.
• Scamming with fake company documents
• Economic scams
• Principal Agent issues
• Not having enough focus on CSR
• Paying low to employees than what they are capable of earning.

Hence, these are some of the major ethical considerations. However, there cannot be an exhaustive list ofethical issues and it is difficult to rank the ethical issues because they may have different impact on different organizations in different solutions. Hence, every ethical issue is important to be tackled.