Ethics in Functional Areas

HRM

HRM - Recruitment• Recruitment of kith and kin without assessing their abilities• Recruitment based on financial favours• Recruitment of relatives of other employees• Recruitment of under-qualified persons• Recruitment of over-qualified persons• Gender based recruitments• Employing child behavior• Giving less than minimum wages as fixed by

government.

Training• Arranging training for only pet employees• Getting outsiders to train at high costs when insiders are

available• Planning training programmes without assessing their real need• Organizing training programmes during peak seasons, upsetting

the business rhythm.• Getting high profile trainers with expectations of a reciprocal

favour.• Training programmes without proper preparation just to show

achievements in the annual report.• Extending the duration of training programmes • Supplying outmoded training materials• Getting useless trainers as an obligation

Administration• Tampering with leave records of employees• Playing with employee records – adverse remarks in a

few cases• Allow selective absenteeism on personal considerations• Giving promotion letters to favourites earlier than

others (making him more senior)• Favourite supplier for office purchases• Favourite security agency• Favourite uniform suppliers• Unclean premises.

IR• IR Managers not averse to siding wherever there were monetary

benefits.• Bargaining with the management till they want to be seen as true

in the eyes of workers• IR Managers felt they were a superior lot with great powers and

used this to recruit their known ones• Try to delay the solution as far as possible as their work depended

on IR disputes• Incite workers to go on strike.• Inducing Management/Workers to indulge in unhealthy practices. • Pressurise workers and state their genuine demands as not

genuine• Divide and Rule• Frame stringent and complicated rules to keep the conflicts going.

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