1. HUMAN RESOURCES: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESS ETHICS
CHAPTER 2:
HUMAN RESOURCES: SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESS ETHICS

2. Changing Attitudes Toward Social Responsibility and Business Ethics
To meet society’s expectations, managers will need to be more socially responsible.
Most of 500 largest U.S. corporations now have a code of ethics.

3. Corporate Social Responsibility
The implied, enforced, or felt obligation of managers, acting in their official capacity, to serve or protect the interests of groups other than themselves.

4. Legislating Ethics and Social Responsibility
Procurement Integrity Act of 1988 – passed after reports of military contracts for $500 toilet seats
Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (FSGO) – outlined an effective ethics program

5. Legislating Ethics and Social Responsibility (Continued)
Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility and Transparency Act – known as Sarbanes Oxley Act, primary focus is to redress accounting and financial reporting abuses in light of recent corporate scandals

6. Stakeholder Analysis and the Social Contract
Organizational stakeholder
Social contract
Obligations to individuals
Obligations to other organizations
Obligations to government
Obligations to society in general

7. Social Audit
Systematic assessment of a company’s activities in terms of its social impact

8. Ethics
Discipline of dealing with what is good and bad, or right and wrong, or with moral duty and obligation
Sources of Ethical Guidance – a number of sources to determine what is right or wrong, good or bad, moral or immoral

9. A MODEL OF ETHICS Sources of ethical guidance
Our beliefs about what is right or wrong
Lead to
Determine
Our actions
Type I Ethics
Type II Ethics

10. Human Resource Ethics
The application of ethical principles to human resource relationships and activities
A Code of Ethics – many companies have a code of ethics

11. Professionalization Of Human Resource Management

12. The Nature of a Profession
A vocation characterized by the existence of:
A common body of knowledge
A procedure for certifying members of a profession

13. HR Professional Groups
Society for Human Resource Management – largest national professional organization for human resource management individuals
American Society for Training and Development – largest specialized professional organizational in human resources

14. HR Professional Groups (Continued)
WorldatWork – consists of managerial and human resources professionals responsible for establishment, execution, administration or application of compensation practices and policies
Human Resource Certification Institute – goal is to recognize human resource professionals through a certification program