Human Resources Role In Ethics Term Paper

¶ … Ethics in the Workplace: The Role of HR Management In the first article "What role should HR play in corporate ethics" the authors establish that HR is vital toward maintaining and building corporate ethics programs. In particular the researchers suggest that HR professionals can create programs that help facilitate open communication and enhance ethics by helping employees and management officials understand the effects non-ethical behavior may have on customers, shareholders and organizational productivity. The authors also suggest that ethics programs should be linked to all business units including finance, security and any legal organization components.

An ethics program according to this author must cover multiple areas including risk assessment, organizational standards, communication, reporting and organizational assessment. I support the author's views in this article. Ethics starts by opening the lines of communication within an organization....

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HR plays a key role in ethics development in an organization because HR professionals come to intimately understand the needs, wants and problems employees may have with ethical subjects.
In the second article, "How HR can facilitate ethics" the authors suggest again that HR professionals must play an important role in developing, maintaining and updating ethics programs. This article like the previous article supports adopting ethical systems within the organization. A key element of ethics programs defined by the authors is also communications. The authors suggest that HR plays three critical roles with respect to ethics including determining employee's loyalty, providing consistent information and assessing perceptions about ethical behaviors in an organization. Again the authors here make a valid point.

HR is critical as the previous article mentions to the success of an organizational ethical program. I also believe that a solid…

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"How HR can facilitate ethics." (2005 -- Apr). HR Focus, 82(4): 1

"What role should HR play in corporate ethics" (2004-Jan). Institute of Management and Administration. HR Focus, 81(1): 3.


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