MGT 3320 : MGT 3320 - Chapter 6 (got 96%)
Document Summary
Ethics and human resource management: ethics, are an individual"s beliefs about what is right and wrong, and good and bad, are formed by the societal context in which people and organizations function, examples: enron, world com, inclone, and tico international. Information accuracy was accurate and complete. flawed or inaccurate decisions. standards of ethics and morality. by the decision have been considered in the decision: possibility of correction, ethicality. If layoffs result in disparate impact for protected groups, legal actions can be problematic: there is a federal law requires 60 days notice when you lay off 50% or more people are going to be laid off, your best employees start looking for other jobs when they hear about a layoff, and the people who you want to layoff might consider themselves to be safe, decisions to layoff more senior employees can result in age discrimination suits, layoff decisions related to performance must be based on a defensible performance appraisal process.
