...Ethical and Legal Issues Merger of Company A & Company B Human Resources Management & Talent Development 07-04-13 Abstract In any merger, there are always legal and ethical issues involved. These issues have to be resolved in order to ensure a successful merger. It is the role of Human Resource personnel to ensure the code of ethics is used in legal and moral implications. The role of the Human resource manager is to create an ethical environment in which all employees are able to enjoy there inalienable rights. These rights will include the accessibility of information about the job, company, and there career and the right not to be coerced into situations. Maintaining these rights will help in reducing stress, establishing trust, increasing productivity and efficiency. This report will document the legal and ethical issues associated with a merger. It will also consist of a detailed implementation plan in resolving these potential ethical and legal issues. A plan for establishing an ethical work environment and resolving ethical and legal issues will be discussed as well. Identify Specific Legal and Ethical Issues involved in Mergers Recently the mergers and acquisitions of firms has become a major trend in business. In the process of mergers and acquisitions, the role of ethics and compliance has become a major step in ensuring success. A breakout session was held just recently on ethics and compliance in mergers and acquisitions. The panel, which featured...
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...Ethical Issues in Management Jaceson Bradford MGT 216 May 3, 2010 Bill Link Introduction In today’s workplace it is important to understand how making an accurate hiring decision can affect the organization. With jobs becoming increasingly difficult to arrive at because of the economy, applicants for employment are willing to misrepresent their credentials in the application process. Managers are faced with ethical and legal aspects of hiring along with social issues that make ethically responsible management practices increasingly important. This paper will provide information about ethical and legal aspects associated with hiring and provide moral and ethical issues faced by managers. This paper will also describe the relationship between social issues and ethically responsible practices that relate to hiring. Moral and Ethical Issues Many people don’t understand the cost related to making a poor hiring decision. From productivity, customer service, and liability prospective have been widely studied and has been estimated to be three times the annual salary of the individual involved (Calvasina, Calvasina, & Calvasina 2008). Therefore, it is important for managers to make their decisions of an applicant based on skills as well as moral and ethical values. It is very difficult at times for managers because their responsibilities include not only hiring, but also promotion, conduct of employees, and motivation. But it is even more important...
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...Ethical Issues in Management Whilst society is essentially based upon performance and profit, it is not unusual to find that ethical issues abound in the process of the performance review. Social, moral, and economic pressures can also influence the ethical issues which are bound up in the performance review. To further complicate matters, there are often legal aspects that have to be considered, along with the ethical issues, that are influenced by the social, moral, and economic pressures, that are all bound up in the process of the performance review. It is hardly surprising that most managers and supervisors dread this part of their job. The following will describe a workplace example of the performance review process, including two ethical issues faced by the managers, the social, moral, and economic pressures that could influence the ethical issues, and some legal aspects faced during this process. Performance Review Process The Company, a successful retail corporation, has a policy of annual reviews for in store hourly employees on their anniversary dates. The reviews are on preprinted forms with number scores ranging from 1-poor to 4-excellent in twenty-five different categories. Annual raises are based on performance and the Company does not have an annual cost of living raise. Most in store hourly employees, in position for more than four years, will reach a raise cap for the position and then only receive a $0.05 an hour raise unless they have an excellent score...
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...between legal and ethical issues, identify personal values and professional ethics, examine ethical theories and principles, and apply these to current practice examples. Nurses face an ever-growing complexity within their practice as professionals. Understanding the relationship between legal and ethical issues and how to apply that understanding to every day practice is paramount for today’s professional nurse. This paper will further explore these ethical theories and principles while discussing how personal values affect an individual’s nursing practice. The Relationship Between Legal and Ethical Issues Nurses, as with any job, face challenges in order to accomplish the tasks of their role. This is one of the reasons that it is important to have a description that serves as guidance as to how the role is to be accomplished. Without such guidelines, it is likely that there will be a breach of established rules along the way to performing duties and accomplishing the job duties. In situations where one person exercises authority over another, there are important guidelines that define relationship between the two parties. Legal and ethical principles define how a job is to be carried out and how individuals are to relate to one another. Legal and professional ethics define the liability of the person that is entrusted with accomplishing a certain task. They also define guidelines that one is likely to use when a dilemma arises while implementing a job duty that...
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...Ethical Issues in Management This paper analyzes the ethical and legal issues encountered by management in organizations daily. The relationship between social issues and the ethical requirements of management as it relates to family and personal issues is also discussed. Family and personal issues affect lives of working adults each day. Ethical dilemmas occur in the workplace when dealing with family and personal issues. One of these examples is discussed during the progression of this paper. Management faces legal aspects during the decision-making process of these dilemmas as to how they should be governed. Personal issues include personal time off work, employee illness, family illness, unexpected events, and childcare, just to name a few. A legal, fair, and ethical approach to these matters is how these issues are handled. If these matters are not handled with caution and within the legal limitations, law suits are filed and companies face serious legal challenges. The Equal Employment Opportunity Commission (EEOC) is the legal voice for those individuals whom believe they have been discriminated. Laws were designed to protect employees from discrimination and to protect the jobs of employees who need to take time off work to take care of ill family members. The Family Medical Leave Act (FMLA) is designed to grant eligible employees up to 12 weeks of time off work during any 12-month period. As with anything, there are individuals who try to take advantage...
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...Ethical and Legal Issues Concerning At-will Employment Jasmine Mills Park University Abstract As years pass by, every sphere of life is taking a new dimension; for instance, advancing technology. This has resulted in some ethical issues in workplaces such as cyberloafing, privacy, information technology usage, employee monitoring. Also, legal issues in workplaces such as lawsuits have emerged. Both employers and employees are worried about the ethical consequences resulting from the ethical issues While bosses use surveillance devices to keep track of their workers' activities and output, these workers feel that excessive monitoring is an attack on their confidentiality and privacy. The strategy of checking workers on a timely basis is contributed by the fact that bosses have rights over everything in the “at-will employment environment.” Additionally, this paper provides a proposal for reducing the ethical and legal issues. The paper also encourages organizations to generate and efficiently communicate ethical standards for workers in their companies. It also includes real examples of workers' perceptions as well as an emotional state from the surveys based on ethical and legal issues raised regarding the topic of study. Keywords: At-will employment, employee monitoring, Ethical and legal issues. Introduction At- will means employment can be terminated at any time, for any reason or no reason without facing legal action. Likewise, an employee can quit a job with or...
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...REFLECTION PAPER ON ETHICS OF NURSING Nurses are in the forefront when it comes to caring for patients, therefore during nursing school they must be warned about a lot of ethical and legal issues that will affect how the job is carried out. In today’s healthcare, there is an ethical gap between what is ethical and what is desirable for profit, and too often ethics is sacrificed for profit. Healthcare organization has become a big time business today and therefore has result in the restructuring of healthcare into a managed care. As a result of this above reason, an ethical gap is always encountered almost on daily basis. As shown in this case study, Mary and John, along with their daughter Martha, have demonstrated how religion, culture, legal, and ethical issues can easily be encountered in the healthcare arena. Honestly until now, I have never considered ethical issues to be of a grave concern in nursing practice; nor given any deep thought to ethical matters when dealing with patient with different background. Prior to now, most cases relating to patient’s background or ethical issues has been resolved easily. I think why these have been easily resolved is because patients are more accommodating and accepting. I think all human races have this general background of being accepting of their fellow human beings. However, some cultural groups are more accepting than others depending on their level of understanding and belief. I think that as from this...
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...Ethical and Legal Issues of a Merger Human Resource Management & Talent Development Ethical and Legal Issues Corporate mergers are pursued because there is a belief that if both independent companies are combined as one, the resulting company will grow more rapidly and will be stronger competitively. Management teams from both sides of these companies will no doubt encounter ethical and legal challenges prior to the merger, during the merger, and after the merger has been completed. HR acts as a moral compass for these companies, and issues that must be faced raise questions about fairness, equality, integrity, honesty, accountability, and consequences of behavior. As HR Director of the acquiring company, it is my responsibility to aid all employees in adhering to the code of ethics that has been implemented into our organizational mission statement. Furthermore, it is my job to create a safe and ethical environment in which every employee can enjoy his or her incontrovertible rights, which include the ability to access information about his or her job and the freedom to be able to do their job without any duress. HR can be a conflicting job for those of us in management, as we are called upon to walk a very narrow line between what is legally and morally best for the employee and financially advantageous to the company (Moore, 2014). However, the alternative of facing civil and criminal penalties that would incur due to law breaking, or even the implication of law...
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...International Legal and Ethical Issues In the “Addressing Legal and Ethical Issues Simulation” a number of issues were addressed. The most complex issues were surrounding the proposed jurisdictions of the courts where legal disputes would be argued. The central issues were the time and expense involved in the resolution of potential disputes. At issue were the distance (time and expense) of litigating in US courts versus the immediacy of litigating in the courts of Candore. The enforceability of any judgment was questionable. In the opinion of the Team, non-binding arbitration subject to international law could be the best solution for this question. The recent acceptance of Candore into the WTO should encourage compliance with decisions made in non-binding arbitration and would expedite resolution in a timely and less expensive to both parties and in the event of continued disagreement the parties would have recourse in international law. The alliance between CadMex Pharma and Gentura has been a successful one and both companies have cross-licensing agreements for several other drugs and techniques. CadMex and after 5 years of doing business with Gentura is now facing a dilemma due to the change in political system in Candore a new government is now in place also the country is in the midst of an viral epidemic affecting more than 1% of the population, ViroBlax is a drug CadMex licensed Gentura to market is one of the drugs used in the treatment should CadMex allow Gentura...
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...Organizational Issues ETH/316 June 10, 2013 Viewing the short film Lighthouse in “The Responsibility Project Website,” the organizational issues was exhibited. Ethical principles are something to be focused on by the organization’s issues. By watching this short film “Lighthouse” it was abundantly clear how important ethical principles are in any organization and how this can alter and influence them. “A grumpy lighthouse keeper tests and redefines his own limits of responsibility.” (June, 2008). The issues in the film are important in this case because it is clear how a normal shift things are not going right, and there would be nothing, which could make things go any worse. There are many times when an employee will rather stay in bed for the day. Incidents happen, and things are out of one’s control, the easy thing to do is throw in the towel; however this is not the thing to do. Mishaps occur, and when it does, one should assess what is occurring at work. In this situation the light can be fixed, and used the equipment utilized for this job. The lighthouse keeper looks as there was not a solution, and at the time he did not view what was available to fix this problem. In this case the best thing for the lighthouse keeper was not to panic. Darkness may appear in a job, but there is always options, in this case the light at the end of the tunnel. The film “Lighthouse” teaches when one thing fails, go at it another way, the people came together and helped the lighthouse...
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...Ethical and Legal Issues HR ethics are important to organizations as they can have legal and moral implications. In this assignment, you will develop a plan to resolve some of the ethical and legal issues involved in a merger. Use the Argosy University online library and textbooks to read about ethical and legal issues. Consider the following scenario: As part of the employment contracts, employees have certain rights. For example, employees have the right to not be coerced into situations against their will. They expect to be able to access the information, which affects their job, company, and career. Such work situations can increase stress, lower self-esteem and productivity, cause loss of trust, and decrease efficiency. Good employees who are looking for a more secure work environment may resign and take valuable tacit knowledge and talent with them. It is the responsibility of HR management to create an ethical work environment before, during, and after the merger. Instructions: As a strategic HR Director, you have been asked to identify ethical and legal issues involved in a merger and develop a plan to resolve these issues. Your plan should address the following: * Identify specific legal and ethical issues that should be considered before, during, and after the merger. * Develop an implementation plan for managing the potential legal and ethical concerns for the merger. * Explain how the proposed plan would help managers establish an ethical...
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...Identify the ethical and legal issues of which Albert needs to be aware- The first ethical issue would be Albert and Marry taking advantage of the players of large organizations by getting them drunk to get information out of them. The second ethical issue is that when Marry lost her job Albert lost a lot of money in high risk markets with his father’s friend’s portfolios. These men were old and that was most likely their retirement fund. Another HUGE ethical and I believe legal issue would be that Albert used his uncle to gain access to law offices and gather information of certain clients and businesses. Mary also used information from her father to help another company take over the one he worked for. Using this insider information is an issue. Legal issues that they face are the emails that marry forwarded with obscene messages and images that caused her to lose her job. As well as Al dealing with blackmail from Barry to give him the IPO information, or else he’ll report him for spinning. Discuss the advantages and disadvantages of each decision that albert could make or has made- Although Alberts and Mary’s use of insider trading made them a substantial amount of money and enhanced their portfolios; it was still illegal and they could both lose their jobs. The same goes for the use of his uncles keys to gain access to certain law offices. A disadvantage from marry forwarding emails would be that she lost her job. The disadvantage of Albert giving into Barry’s blackmail...
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...The industrial/organizational psychologist is looking for competent individuals who bring value to an organization. The method of selection is a meticulous progress of scrutiny that ranges from the military, to the medical field, into social services, and also the public school system. In this paper, social service work will be examined. Though selection is important, the steps of training employees are equally imperative. Altogether, this comes with concerns that could include legal and ethical obligations as organizations attempt to hire the right individual for the job. Industrial/Organizational Psychology to Select & Train Employees Some large corporate companies and government agencies, such as social services devote millions of dollars a year on employee selection. Psychological testing by employers is growing every year to gain dependable employees and revenue. It is important for employers to adequately assess a potential employee’s work ethic, mindset, and motivation, when applying for the job to avoid high rates of employee turnover. Individual...
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...will explain the ethical issues that managers must abide by when hiring new employees. There are many issues that must be reviewed before a final decision is made. Managers should not discriminate against race, religion, sex, disabilities, marital status, or sexual orientation. There have been several companies that have had legal trouble because of their hiring ethics. Ethical issues are important in the workforce. Managers should be trained in ethics so that any ethical issues that may arise during the hiring process can be stopped from escalating and becoming an issue later on. The article will go into detail on what to do and what not to do when hiring. Ethical Issues in Hiring The main characteristics of a profitable and long lasting company are ethics and social responsibility. There are many companies that have stood the task of time, all being built on a strong ethical background. There have also been some companies that have shown some less than outstanding ethics and social responsibility, examples include Enron, ImClone, and Wal-Mart. Unethical behavior can be found in all aspects of a business, which may include insider trading, employee relations and unethical accounting practices. One issue that is surrounded by ethics and morals is employee hiring. When a company acquires new employees they need to make sure that they are facilitating the ethical behavior which should...
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...In the business world, we must separate our own morals from legality ethics because whether we believe we are taking action to help save jobs or businesses, it is necessary to respect our business law of ethics. Ethics should be considered in every choice we make, especially those concerning business and legal decisions. Although, an action is technically considered a legal one, that doesn’t exactly mean that it is ethical. Also, the other way around, just because an action is illegal, is it morally or ethically right because it is helping those in need or because it seems acceptable in the world today. In 2012, a Chinese electronics manufacturing company, who is responsible for producing components and parts for Apple, was revealed to be employing underage workers after an internal audit was done against them. This act was in direct violation of child labor laws, but seemingly enough many U.S. companies continue to use products from Chinese companies that hire underage workers to produce their products. Even though it is against the law, many justify this action by believing it is ethical because it provides jobs to people in need and that the children want to work and are doing so to help their poor families in need. Also, this helps Apple because it provides them with very cheap labor, so it is a beneficial to not only the workers but the company itself. The media bashes these companies by putting them on the news and writing articles explaining the accidents and mistakes...
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