ETHICAL ISSUES

1. Employment Issues:

HR professionals are likely to face maximum ethical dilemmas in the areas of hiring of employees.

a. Pressure to hire a friend or relative of a highly placed executive.

b. Faked credentials submitted by a job applicant.

2. Cash and Incentive Plans:

Cash and incentive plans include issues like basic salaries, annual increments or incentives, executive perquisites and long term incentive plans.

3. Employees Discrimination's:

A framework of laws and regulations has been evolved to avoid the practices of treatment of employees on the basis of their caste, sex, religion, disability, age etc. 

4. Performance Appraisal:

Ethics should be the basis of performance evaluation. Highly ethical performance appraisal demands that there should be an honest assessment of the performance and steps should be taken to improve the effectiveness of employees.

6. Safety and Health:

Industrial work is often hazardous to the safety and health of the employees. Legislation have been created making it mandatory on the organisations and managers to compensate the victims of occupational hazards.

                      UNETHICAL ISSUES

1. Abusive behavior

Too many workplaces are filled with managers and supervisors who use their position and power to mistreat or disrespect others. Unfortunately, unless the situation you're in involves race, gender or ethnic origin, there is often no legal protection against abusive behavior in the workplace.

2. Employee theft

One out of every 40 employees in 2012 was caught stealing from their employer. Even more startling is that these employees steal on average 5.5 times more than shoplifters ($715 vs $129). Employee fraud is also on the uptick, whether its check tampering, not recording sales in order to skim, or manipulating expense reimbursements. Ethical alert: The FBI recently reported that employee theft is the fasting growing crime in the U.S. today.

3. Misusing company time

Whether it is covering for someone who shows up late or altering a time sheet, misusing company time tops the list. This category includes knowing that one of your co-workers is conducting personal business on company time. By "personal business" the survey recognizes the difference between making cold calls to advance your freelance business and calling your spouse to find out how your sick child is doing.