Instruction
Please answer and or discuss the following:
1. Discuss several areas in which HR can affect organizational culture positively or negatively.
2. Give some examples of ethical issues that you have experienced in jobs and explain how HR did or did not help resolve them.
3. Why is it important for HR management to transform from being primarily administrative and operational to a more strategic contributor?
4. Assume you are an HR Director with a staff of seven people. A departmental objective is for all staff members to become professionally certified within a year. Using the Internet resources of HR associations, such as www.shrm.org and www.WorldatWork.org, develop a table that identifies four to six certifications that could be obtained by your staff members and show the important details for each certification.
5. Your company, a growing firm in the financial services industry, is extremely sensitive to the issues surrounding business ethics.
The company wants to be proactive in developing a business ethics training program for all employees, both to ensure the company's reputation as an ethical organization in the community and to help maintain the industry's high standards. As the HR Director and someone who values the importance of having all employees trained in the area of business ethics, you are in charge of developing the ethics training program. It needs to be a basic program that can be presented to all employees in the company. Resources for business ethics information can be found at www.business-ethics.org/.
A. What legislative act prompted many U.S. companies to develop internal ethical policies and procedures?
B. What are key concepts related to business ethics that should be considered in the development of the ethics training program?
Book used: Mathis, R. L., Jackson, J. H., Valentine, S.R., & Meglich, P. (2016). Human Resource Management (15th ed.). Stamford, CT: Cengage Learning.
ISBN: 9781305500709