This is because it encourages equal opportunities of all employees working for an organization. Potential employees to be hired feels comfortable applying for a job in such an organization because promotion is based on an individual qualification and not creed, race and gender.
A small business diversity initiative supports non-discrimination standards hence enforces penalties for individuals who do not comply with the regulations (Webley 2010). Beyond the legal compliance challenges stated the in workplace, diversity companies can gain from encouraging tolerance but and embracing differences in all employees. This can result in new horizons that lead to new customer demographics, business partners as well as internal performance techniques. Even a small business is often exposed to various different cultures, education levels and demographics. This can enhance future business prospects by taking into consideration diversity in the workplace.
Training structures exist for this subject and there is need for the administration to…...
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Webley, L. (September 06, 2010). Diversity in the Legal Profession: A Business or an Ethical
Rationale?: 'Correspondent's Report From' the United Kingdom. Legal Ethics, 13, 2, 223-
Garavan, T., & McGuire, D. (January 01, 2010). Human Resource Development and Society:
Human Resource Development's Role in Embedding Corporate Social Responsibility,
Ethics and Diversity Proposal
Twenty-first century institutions face pressures of globalization, often requiring them to adapt to new paradigms so as to "harness all opportunities to cultivate sustainable means for development and human existence" (Darroux, 2013, p. 4). Social networking and workplace diversity are two of the most significant effects of globalization. To be successful in the highly competitive 21st century marketplace, human resource personnel have to appreciate the power of the aforementioned resources and integrate the same into their strategic plans to generate innovation and cohesiveness (Darroux, 2013).
Ethical Consideration
Organizational policy currently bars employees from using social networking sites in the workplace on grounds that quality time would be wasted if such authority was granted. This, in my view, poses both an ethical and social concern. I do not think it is fine to maintain guidelines focusing on controlling employees' social networking behavior when we have the capability to channel…...
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Darroux, C. (2013). Human Resource Management in Modern Enterprise in the Advent of Social Networking. Journal of Innovation and Sustainability, 4(2), 3-14.
Dreher, G.F. & Dougherty, T.W. (2001). Human Resource Strategy: A Behavioral Perspective for the General Manager. Boston: McGraw Hill.
Kreitz, P.A. (2007). Best Practices for Managing Organizational Diversity. Stanford University. Retrieved 9 August 2014 from http://www.slac.stanford.edu/cgi-wrap/getdoc/slac-pub-12499.pdf
Ethics
Police Ethics
Police Department Ethics
Ethics are a sticky situation that most people, no matter what their occupation, have to deal with. When it comes to a job like that of a police officer, it is an even more important consideration. Police have the power and backing to take life away from the individuals they pursue. Officers daily make decisions that can seriously affect their lives and those of the public. Thus it is important to understand the overall ethics of the force.
In general, police are as ethical as anyone else. They have the same concerns and needs as any citizen, but their job entitles them to more power than the average person. If an officer does not have a secure moral compass, they can easily make decisions that will endanger the public. Case in point is Officer Matt Paul. His actions were many times seen as overly aggressive, and this was…...
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Byron, L. (2011). Concerns about deputy's use of force raised years ago. King 5 News. Retrieved from 122598629.htmlhttp://www.king5.com/home/use-of-force-academy -
Kamb, L. (2006, May 11). Conduct unbecoming: Taxpayers foot the bill for keeping bad cops on the job. Seattle Post Intelligencer. Retrieved from http://o.seattlepi.com/local/269669_pension11.asp
Pitt, B., Grey, B., & King, G. (Producers), & Scorsese, M. (Director). (2006). The Departed. United States: Warner Bros.
Founded the first of April in 1976 and headquartered in Cupertino, California, Apple Inc. is one of the most recognized American transnational technology company. The firm is well-known for its designs and has developed and sold computer software, consumer electronics, and online services for decades. Initially beginning with the Mac personal computer, it has branches out to include various product lines including the internationally recognized iPhone smartphone and iPad tablet computer (O'Grady, 2009). With a 2015 worldwide annual revenue over $233 billion, the firm enjoys a high level of recognition as well as brand loyalty (Wahlen, 2016). Most of this has to do with the company's consistent innovation, marketing, and organizational culture.
Apple Inc. is a well-known company that has risen in the last few decades as being one of the top firms in the world. Its organizational culture remains the key factor to its success. By implementing new strategies and…...
mlaReferences
Ardichvili, A., Mitchell, J., & Jondle, D. (2008). Characteristics of Ethical Business Cultures. J Bus Ethics, 85(4), 445-451. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/s10551-008-9782-4
Kidder, R. (2009). How good people make tough choices. Pymble, NSW: HarperCollins e-books.
Klein, P. (2011). Where Is Apple's Social Purpose?. Forbes.com. Retrieved 18 June 2016, from http://www.forbes.com/sites/csr/2011/08/12/where-is-apples-social-purpose/#6c21e7f84a77
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Diversity Proposal
Consideration Ethics Diversity Proposal Choose ethical considerations diversity considerations affecting division. Write a proposal HR director. Provide details considerations. Justify important strategic HRM planning process.
Two ethics proposals: Diversity consideration
This organization is an EEOC-compliant employer and strives to incorporate diversity into its hiring practices and general worldview. Diversity is an important, stated goal for the organization and is a factor that is taken under consideration when making hiring decisions. The organization takes an active role in recruiting from colleges with substantial minority populations and its promotional literature paints an inclusive portrait of the organization, visually and verbally.
However, one problem with our organization is that while it has a strong record in recruiting minority candidates, it is lacking in terms of its capacity to retain them. This means at the upper levels of management, minority candidates are not represented in the corporate hierarchy. This creates, to some degree, a self-fulfilling prophesy.…...
Ethics Awareness Inventory
According to the Ethics Inventory, I fell into two categories: those who are obligation-oriented, and those who are results-oriented. In some ways, the ethical beliefs of these two categories are in conflict; for instance, usually people who base ethical decisions on obligation or duty are not as concerned with results as with principles. However, I scored high in the results-oriented category as well. I believe that my ability to span both categories of ethical decision making have proved beneficial for me in the past and will continue to in the future. For example, the ethics awareness inventory analysis indicated that I do not operate in terms of absolutes; I do not feel that there can be any absolute standards of right and wrong because the world is too complex. Therefore, I am more prone to being open-minded and flexible than people who do feel that there should be…...
Ethics and the Internet
As the computer has evolved in the modern world, so the potential for communication has also increased. The computer, and the development of the Internet, has meant that human society has become more connected than ever before and the barriers between nations and people around the globe have been broken down. While this is a positive development in many ways, the growth of the Internet has also meant that there has been an increase in a wide range of new problems. One of these is the issue of ethics. "Just as ethics evolve as human societies grow and change, so similar ethical questions are raised during the evolution of this global electronic community." (Ethics on the Web)
The more that technology for communication and open publication of information advances, the more questions are raised about issues relating to moral codes of behavior and problems about what is right…...
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Ethics
According to the dictionary definition, ethics refer to the "set of principles of right conduct, or more specifically, "the rules or standards governing the conduct of a person or the members of a profession." Ethics and morals are closely related, but ethics is the term more commonly used in the professional realm, whereas morals generally refer to guidelines for personal behavior. Both ethics and morals are reflections of beliefs and values, which are held by individuals and collectively, by whole societies. The development of ethics therefore stems from social and cultural factors as well as from personal ones. However, a few ethical codes are nearly universal. Ethics are complex; in the business realm they may vary widely from sector to sector. No organization is completely immune to ethics, even if the organization has no formal ethical code. Professional decisions are made with regard to personal ethics or to the formal…...
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Ethics Awareness Inventory (EAI) is a way of measuring different people's ethical approaches. It measures ethics in four different dimensions: character, obligation, results, and equity. The combined score for character was 8, the combined score for obligation was 4, the combined score for results was -4, and the combined score for equity was -8. My ethical profile was most closely aligned with character, and least closely aligned with equity. My obligation and results scores were opposites, which was interesting because those two traits are thought be diametrically opposed.
The character perspective is aligned with virtue theory, and looks at what is good to be, rather than what is good to do. In other words, actions are not as critical as character. This means that the character perspective is not overly focused on actions. In fact, character looks more broadly at ethics than a simple determination of right and wrong and involves…...
Ethics Awareness
Ethics are at the core of human behavior and decision-making. This paper evaluates the results of the Ethics Awareness Inventory, a proprietary software designed to measure a person's ethical stance. The results of the Ethics Awareness Inventory can be applied to that person's psychology, and can help supervisors make human resources decisions related to the individual. Moreover, organizational psychologists especially benefit from ethical inventories. It is important to apply ethical awareness and psychological principles to personal, social, and organizational issues.
The Ethics Awareness Inventory is proprietary software designed to profit off of the need to evaluate and analyze every single human decision. Available for a select group of people, the Ethics Awareness Inventory "is a program that can evaluate one's ethical style," in the same way a quiz can evaluate what food, country, or sexual position is most appropriate (Collack, 2007). As with most quizzes, the Ethics Awareness Inventory has…...
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.." And "The probability that my peers would undertake the same action is...." It is the difference in the responses given to these two questions, as captured on a seven point Likert scale, that is the measure of the social desirability response bias. (Tyson: 1992; Cohen et al.: 1995, 1996, 2001).
Many studies have been done on the role and correlation between moral development and ethical decision making as it applies to various professionals. A majority of these research studies have found that such things as gender, education, age and taking ethics courses in school have some affect on one's moral reasoning developments (Armstrong: 1993; Elm, Kennedy & Lawton: 2001; Jones & Hiltebeitel: 1995; Ponemon & Glazer: 1990; Shaub: 1994). However, many studies have also found exactly the opposite, in that no significant relationship exists. (Ma & Chan: 1987; Rogers & Smith: 2001; Thorne, Massey & Magnan: 2003).
Studies have also been…...
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107) could also apply here. The confidentiality clause in such a case then only applies insofar as it is estimated that there is no need to disclose confidential information to others. In the case of Mrs. Z, her family deserves to know about her situation, because it affects their lives pertinently.
Because of the increasing cultural diversity throughout the world, cultural values also play an important part in making ethical decisions in the nursing profession. In the case of Mrs. Z, for example, she appears to have no powers of decision making either in her home or in society in general. Inside the home, her mother-in-law runs the household, while her husband is in charge of important decisions. This could have a significant influence upon her decision not to disclose her condition to her family.
According to Karahanne, Evaristo and Srite (2006, p. 34), for example, also note that cultures seldom…...
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Karahanna, E., Evaristo, J.R., and Srite, M. (2006). Levels of Culture and Individual Behavior: An Integtrative Perspective. Advanced Topics in Global Information Management, Vol. 5. Idea Group, Inc.
Consequence-based ethics
c. I believe people should be able to eat sand because it is the right thing to do. Duty-based ethics
d. I believe people should be able to eat sand because it is good for one's health. Virtue ethics
e. I believe people should be able to eat sand if they decide they want to, regardless of whether it is someone else's sand. Entitlement-based ethics
f. I believe people should be able to eat sand if they want to because they are free to make the decision themselves. ights-based ethics
g. I believe I will eat sand because it is the standard meal for my community. elativistic ethics
Q4. Duty-based ethics: It is my duty to follow through with instructions my boss gives me, even if I do not agree with the concept. It is my moral obligation to respect authority figures.
Consequence-based ethics: Even though some employees use the Internet responsibly, the majority…...
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Trevino, L.K., & Nelson, K.A. (2007). Managing business ethics: Straight talk about how to do it right (4th Ed.). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley.
If the right employee is chosen then the knowledge that they gain while abroad can be a valuable asset when they return home. They develop an intimate relationship with a different market than the parent company. This knowledge can help the parent company expand to meet the needs of a more diverse group of clients. There have not been many studies in this area at all. This study has a strong theoretical background based on a synthesis of existing knowledge in the field. It focuses on recent peer reviewed articles as the basis for its constructs. The study found that in order for repatriate knowledge to be useful, the company had to first have a sound knowledge management system in place. In addition, it had to have a strong multicultural knowledge management. This study used a study group of 16 expatriate employees to draw its conclusions.
The study focused on…...
mlaSelden, S. (2005). Human Resource Management in American Counties, 2002. Public Personnel Management.34 (1), 59-90.
Many studies in human resource management have focused on the federal and state level. This study was unique in that it focused on the county level. It focused on county government issues rather than those dealing with the private sector. The study focused on structural and political changes. The purposes of the study were to provide data that could be extrapolated to the general population in America. However, it focused on Los Angeles and surrounding counties. This area has a unique political, social and economic landscape. However, the uniqueness of this area was not addressed by the study. This data is only applicable to areas that are identical, or substantially similar to the counties in the study. It does examine some of the topics and concerns that could effect county governments in the rest of the country, but further examination of these areas would have to be conducted to determine their similarities and differences to the counties examined in this study. It is useful to this research because it does bring to light several issues that might be of concern in other areas of the country as well. However, extrapolating the data from this study alone would lead to skewed conclusions about the other county.
This study found that there are several barriers to county governments that place a damper on their ability to function as efficiently as possible. One of the key constraints is a tight labor market. Other factors that effect the ability to operate effectively are uncompetitive county salaries, budget constraints, procedural constraints, residency requirements, slow hiring processes, background checks and collective bargaining agreements. Many of these factors would apply to any county government and would result in similar difficulties. However, the key complaint about this study is that it failed to recognize differences in counties. For instance, Los Angeles County has a high population center. This type of county could not be compared to a rural county with a significantly lower population and different industry profile. This was an excellent study on counties in Southern California counties, but is cannot be applied to all counties in America, as the title implies. Diversity in County government was higher than in other counties around the country. This was another factor that cannot be extrapolated to other parts of the country.
Ethics of Accommodating Religion
As the diversity within businesses increases at an alarming pace with the entire world transforming into a global village, employers, employees and legislators are all concerned about accommodating religious beliefs and observances. ith the signing of Title VII that permits employees to observe the tenets of their religion at workplace, employers are planning how to obey the laws and utilize the religious accommodation as a growing strength for their profitable businesses. This research paper addresses the most debatable issue of accommodating religious beliefs in commercial, professional and industrial dealings. Furthermore, the paper will outline the ways in which religious accommodation can be made possible and positive for both employees and the employers. The paper will also highlight the implication of religious accommodation in the workplace and will present the future direction.
Ethics of accommodating religion
The reason for being at work is to perform a job. However, with religious…...
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