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HUMAN RESOURCES: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESS ETHICS

HUMAN RESOURCES: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESS ETHICS. Changing Attitudes Toward Social Responsibility and Business Ethics. To meet society’s expectations, managers will need to be more socially responsible. Most of 500 largest U.S. corporations now have a code of ethics.

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HUMAN RESOURCES: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESS ETHICS

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  1. HUMAN RESOURCES:SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESS ETHICS

  2. Changing Attitudes Toward Social Responsibility and Business Ethics • To meet society’s expectations, managers will need to be more socially responsible. • Most of 500 largest U.S. corporations now have a code of ethics.

  3. Corporate Social Responsibility • The implied, enforced, or felt obligation of managers, acting in their official capacity, to serve or protect the interests of groups other than themselves.

  4. Legislating Ethics and Social Responsibility • Procurement Integrity Act of 1988 – passed after reports of military contracts for $500 toilet seats • Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (FSGO)– outlined an effective ethics program

  5. Legislating Ethics and Social Responsibility (Continued) • Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility and Transparency Act– known as Sarbanes Oxley Act, primary focus is to redress accounting and financial reporting abuses in light of recent corporate scandals

  6. Stakeholder Analysis and the Social Contract Organizational stakeholder Social contract Obligations to individuals Obligations to other organizations Obligations to government Obligations to society in general

  7. Social Audit Systematic assessment of a company’s activities in terms of its social impact

  8. Ethics • Discipline of dealing with what is good and bad, or right and wrong, or with moral duty and obligation • Sources of Ethical Guidance – a number of sources to determine what is right or wrong, good or bad, moral or immoral

  9. A MODEL OF ETHICS Sources of ethical guidance Our beliefs about what is right or wrong Lead to Determine Our actions Type I Ethics Type II Ethics

  10. Human Resource Ethics • The application of ethical principles to human resource relationships and activities • A Code of Ethics– many companies have a code of ethics

  11. Professionalization Of Human Resource Management

  12. The Nature of a Profession A vocation characterized by the existence of: • A common body of knowledge • A procedure for certifying members of a profession

  13. HR Professional Groups • Society for Human Resource Management – largest national professional organization for human resource management individuals • American Society for Training and Development–largest specialized professional organizational in human resources

  14. HR Professional Groups (Continued) • WorldatWork– consists of managerial and human resources professionals responsible for establishment, execution, administration or application of compensation practices and policies • Human Resource Certification Institute – goal is to recognize human resource professionals through a certification program

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