Professional Documents
Culture Documents
Unit-5
Overview
• The specific role of employees among the various stakeholder groups
• Core ethical topics of employees’ rights and duties
• Ethical issues and problems faced in business-employee relations
• The duties of employees and the company’s involvement in enabling
employees to live up to their duties
• The notion of corporate citizenship in relation to employees
• Basic issues and problems of managing employees in the context of
globalization
• Explore the notion of corporate citizenship in relation to employees
• The implication of sustainability for workplaces and for specific working
conditions
Ethical issues in the firm-employee
relation
Ethical issues in firm employee relation
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1. Ethical problem between rights and duties
2. Discrimination
3. Sexual and racial harassment
4. Equal opportunities and affirmative action
5. Reverse discrimination
6. Employee privacy
7. Health and drug testing
8. Electronic privacy and data protection
9. Due process and lay-offs
10.Employee participation and association
11.Working conditions -Excessive working hours and presenteeism -Flexible working
conditions
12.Fair wages
13.Freedom of conscience and freedom of speech in the workplace
14.Right to work
Management of human ‘resources’:
an ethical problem between rights and duties
Female 11 17 17
executive directors
Female 60 93 114
non-executive directors
‘Presenteeism’
• phenomenon of being at work when you should be at home
due to illness or even just for rest and recreation (Cooper 1996)
Flexible working patterns
• Another way of saying that management can do what it
wants? (Legge, 1998)
• ‘Non-standard’ work relationships
– Part-time work, temporary work, self-employment and teleworking
(Stanworth 2000)
– Less secure legal status for periphery workers
– Potential for:
• Poorer working conditions
• Increased insecurity
• Lower pay
• Exclusion from training and other employment
benefits
Fair wages
• The basis for determining fair wages is commonly the
expectations placed on the employee and their performance
towards goals
– Note discussion about excessive compensation for executives after the
stock market collapse of 2008
• Problems of performance-related pay (PRP)
– Risk
• salaries and benefits become less secure
– Representation
• individualized bargaining
Freedom of conscience and freedom of speech in the
workplace