Bussiness Ethics, and how business ethics applies to Human Resource decision making

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Business ethics and human resource decision making

Business ethics refers to forms of control measures applied to examine and address moral and ethical problems that come up with time in a working environment . The demand for ethical decision making in human resource development and management is increasing because of the conscience focused market places . Ethics of human resource management or decision making are the standards that tackle issues to do with employer employee relationship , such as an outline

of duties and rights owed between employee and employer . Since employers and employees are the key drivers of the business , it then seems that if any of the partners collapse , the whole venture should get crippled . To avoid unnecessary and unanticipated skirmishes , the relationship between the two should be preserved with the highly affordable ethical consideration measures (Sims , 2002 ,

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The decision making process in the human resource section should handle issues to do with discrimination in the place of work or its environs . The discrimination may be in terms of attractiveness , weight disabilities , religion , race , gender or age . During the same process it is necessary to give a view to issues democratization of work through strike breaking or union busting and representation of employees in the decision making process . The privacy of employees should be well covered through drug testing and workplace surveillance . The focus should not only cover the employee , but the privacy of the employer should also be conserved...