HUMAN RESOURCE MGMT – Chapter 2
SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND BUSINESS ETHICS
Chapter Objectives
Describe changing attitudes toward social responsibility and business ethics.
Describe concept of corporate social responsibility.
Explain attempts at legislating social responsibility.
Explain what is meant by stakeholder analysis and the social contract.
Chapter Objectives (Continued)
Describe how a corporate social responsibility program is implemented.
Understand the model of ethics and describe human resource ethics.
Understand the importance of a code of ethics and describe ethics and the HR manager.
Describe the professionalization of human resource management.
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.
Legislating Ethics and Social Responsibility
Procurement Integrity Act of 1988
Federal Sentencing Guidelines for Organizations (FSGO) –
Corporate and Auditing Accountability, Responsibility and Transparency Act
STAKEHOLDERS OF CROWN METAL PRODUCTS
The Social Contract -- Social Audit
Systematic assessment of a company’s activities in terms of its social impact
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
A MODEL OF ETHICS
Ethical Dilemma
What would you do?
Ethics … cont’d
Human Resource Ethics
A Code of Ethics
Ethics and the HR Manager
HR Professional Groups
Society for Human Resource Management – SHRM
American Society for Training and Development – ASTD
World-at-Work
Human Resource Certification Institute – HRCI
Chapter Review
social responsibility and business ethics.
corporate social responsibility.
legislating social responsibility.
stakeholder analysis and the social contract.
the model of ethics and human resource ethics.
the importance of a code of ethics
professionalization of human resource management.
Minute Paper
Explain what is meant by stakeholder analysis and the social contact
STAKEHOLDERS OF CROWN METAL PRODUCTS.
The Social Contract