1. A Look at the Complexity of Human Resource Management
HR Today
A Look at the Complexity of Human Resource Management
A Worst-Case Scenario

2. CSR View: Dimensions of Diversity
“Protected Classes”
California HR seems especially intense…:-o
Yes, Your Rights In and Beyond Employment May Vary State to State, and Change with the Times!

3. How Do We Judge? Let Us Count the Ways What have you experienced – or witnessed – so far, personally or in the news? This reflection helps us understand what is at stake.

5. And yet, never forget, the fundamental area that HR guards is the
FIRM ITSELF
So…
Today’s Global Leaders Urge New Emphasis on the Human Resource Function, Returning it to the Business of Developing People

6. Today’s Conscious Companies Understand Firms Cannot Generally and With Consistency be Trusted to Ensure Ethical Behaviors on Their Own.
They Call for Responsible HR Departments, Proposing:
HR Professionals must help ensure that ethics is a top organizational priority
HR Professionals must ensure that the leadership selection and development processes include an ethics component
HR is responsible for ensuring that the right people and policies are in place.
HR must stay abreast of ethical issues (especially changing legislation and sentencing guidelines for unethical conduct).

7. Thought Experiment:
Your company has hired a new Regional VP. As the HR specialist for her region, you are asked to process her payroll and benefits paperwork.
Your boss instructs you to waive the standard one-year waiting period for benefits entitlement and enroll the new VP immediately into the retirement and employee bonus plan.
When you raise the concern that this action is illegal, your boss informs you that this new VP is a close friend of the company president and advises you that, in the interests of your personal job security, you should “Just do it and don’t ask questions.”

8. Consider this case.
How might an effective and ethical HR Department help? What would be HR’s limitations in this case?