...Business Ethics Paper March 4th, 2012 Rasmussen College Business Ethics Professor De La Cruz Brian Meld Business Ethics Paper Imagine you are having a busy day in your office sitting in front of the computer. Data entry is your life; so exciting. All of a sudden, you get a personal email from a relative that says your cousin is on suicide watch at the hospital. This is very personal information and you would like to keep it to yourself. Later in the day, you are walking in the office and someone says “how is your cousin?” How did they know my cousin had something wrong? You have just been a victim of employee surveillance. As long as the software and video equipment has been around, employers have monitored their employees. Employee surveillance is not illegal, but there is a thin line between wrong and right that deserves more analysis: An analysis of employee surveillance in the workplace reveals an ethical issue of spying on employees or protecting employees and the company. When most people think of the word privacy, they are thinking about their personal space and having some time to themselves without someone or something looking in on them. A further definition is required. “A right to privacy can be understood as a right to maintain a certain level of control over the inner spheres of personal information and access to one’s body, capacities, and powers” (Moore, 2008, p.420). Privacy in the workplace might be a restroom break or even sitting alone in a...
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...New Employee Orientation “The new employee orientation process begins before the employee comes to work. Planning ahead for your new employee’s arrival will allow you to spend productive time on that first day (University of California, Berkeley, a). According to Berkeley, the following items are of importance: “make a copy of the job description and your department’s organization chart, make sure the employee’s work location is available, clean, and organized; make sure a copy of the appropriate personnel policy manual or contract is available for the employee, have a benefits information package available, put together a list of key people the employee should meet and interview to get a broader understand of their roles, and arrange for a building pass, parking pass, and IDs if necessary” (University of California, Berkeley, b). The first day on a new job incorporates excitement along with fear and stress. Therefore, it is important to make each new employee feel welcomed. The manager or supervisor should be the first to greet the new employee and offer a “warm welcome” to the company (University of California, Berkeley, b). If possible, a welcome sign should be placed at the entrance to the employee area so all staff at that location will know that a new person is starting and be able to welcome them warmly as well. Next, the manager on site, or the Human Resource manager if the hiring is at headquarters, should walk the employee through any necessary forms...
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...employer has strong commitments to maintain a totally or partially nonunion workforce. 2. What is the most frequent method of communicating benefits to employees? How can this method be most effective The employee benefit handbook is the most frequent form of communicating benefits to employees. To be most effective the benefit manual should be accompanied by group meetings and videotape. 3. Which is the most popular empirical method of identifying individual preferences in benefits packages? Explain how this method works The flexible benefit plan is the most popular also known as cafeteria style plan or the super market plan. Employees are allotted a fixed amount of money and permitted to spend that amount in the purchase of benefit options. Employees directly identify the benefits of greatest value to them, and by constraining the dollars employees have to spend, benefits managers are able to control benefits costs. 4. Discuss what psychological contracts mean in employee benefit practices Psychological contracts are an articulation of the exchange relationship between the employer and the employee. A psychological contract has been defined as an employee’s subjective perceptions of the relationship of mutual obligations with the employer and the company. Employee benefits can be a part of the psychological contract employees hold about the employer’s obligations to them in exchange for their work efforts. 5. Briefly discuss how workforce demographic changes can...
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...Running head: “Allstate Insurance Company” “Goal setting techniques of the Allstate Insurance Company” Strayer University BUS 520 Dr. Farshid Moghimi 25 July 2011 “Does Allstate have an effective goal setting program?” Goal setting is the process of specifying desired outcomes toward which individuals, teams, departments, and organizations will strive and is intended to increase organizational efficiency and effectiveness. The process of implementing goal setting initiatives can prove to be a difficult task. Many companies have goal setting strategies because they serve as a motivational tool for teams and individuals. The goal setting model consists of many variables. The first and most important variable is the challenge. The challenge is where goal difficulty, goal clarity, and self-efficacy are accessed. The second variables are the moderators which establish ability, goal commitment, feedback, and task complexity. The third and last variables are the mediators which involve direction, effort, persistence, and task strategy. These variables make up the goal model and give individuals a guideline for how to achieve an organization’s goals. Allstate’s goal setting process has the same basic variables that the goal-setting model includes. Allstate formulated has four steps for its employees to achieve the goals of the company. Succession programming, development, measurement, and accountability are the four steps that Allstate uses to help employees...
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...strategies, which ensure that valuable workers feel secured at their work place and rewarded for their accomplishment. A successful company focused compensation strategy including tuition reimbursement, bonus and paid time off. They are valuable programs and creating attraction process for most common compensation programs. These strategies are useful tool to improve employee satisfaction and work ethics. But, used incorrectly, it can cause some financial damages and relation disconnect between company and work forces. Bonus, tuition reimbursement and paid time off can be created to reward individual performance which is related to company’s mission and building trust in the organization. Company can use these strategy tools to communicate a fresh commitment from the employer to the employees and remind workers how much they are appreciated. The purpose this report is to determine the proper amount of compensations gets applied for different jobs in the organization. The organization because persuading the incorrect determination can cause bad implications for the company and damaging the work ethics of the employee organization as well as the employer’s power to hire qualified employees. Another purpose of the research report Well treated employees make a major role in a company’s power to improve its product quality, services and make a profit, so attracting employees can be a main key to success. Making a decision about compensation is also affecting the organization financial...
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...COMPENSATION AND OTHER EMPLOYEE RETENTION STATEGIES Abstract There are three human elements that are important to any organizations success - good leadership at the top, effective management at all levels, and personnel who possess the knowledge and skills to get the job done. Retaining effective employees is a challenge, and replacing employees who leave an organization is extremely expensive. Roger E. Herman’s book Keeping Good People – Strategies for Solving the Dilemma of the Decade discusses five strategies that an organization can implement, and which will aid in retaining top talent. This paper discusses those five strategies. Compensation strategies are those which ensure top talent can be recruited, and retained due to competitive compensation from an organization. Environmental strategies involve efforts that address 1) ethics and values, 2) organizational policies that interpret values and translate them into action, and 3) the physical environment that a company’s employees occupy. Relationship strategies are the actions of how an organization treats its people, as well as how they treat each other. Support strategies are those that equip employees with the resources that they require to complete the job. People growing strategies are actions that organizations can practice that contribute to the professional and personal development of their employees. For most organizations to be successful there are three human elements which are crucial...
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...to Personal Administration Instructor Guevara June 16, 2014 The ability for a company to make a job seem to be an exciting and future position for a potential employee means they have to make the package be a good one. When a person applies for a position they are looking for the total package that fits right with their needs and wants as well as giving them a place to grow with a strong company. Employees look at the total package from health care to vacation time and everything in between. I have also had some friends looking for the benefit of childcare right at their company where they will be working as a bonus to being able to visit your child during your lunch time. These are all benefits that go into making a good draw for an employee to look at when deciding where they want to be employed. So what makes a job seem attractive? Is it the salary, or is it the benefits? Well, I would say it is both. They both play a major role in the factors that draw a person into a company for an interview. Remember that employees want to have as much benefit from the company as they do liking what they do. Health benefits, health club benefits, daycare benefits, vacation or paid time off (PTO) days, room for advancement, pay grades that help them to increase their pay rate, good work ethic, and strong company with a good future. These are some of the things that employee’s look for when they are shopping for a career change. (Zeffane, 2008). Job descriptions...
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...EMPLOYEE BENEFIT PACKAGE PROPOSAL The following is intended to represent a summary of NASSCO benefits. By implementing the correct SWP (Strategic Workforce Planning Systems) by ultimate objective is to understand our workforce dynamics so that talent can be managed proactively to ensure that future business goals are met. Should there be conflict between this information and that appearing in plan documents or summary plan descriptions, provisions in the plans will apply. NASSCO may alter or discontinue these benefits at any time, with or without notice. The following are proposed benefits available for our workforce. Health care A variety of medical and dental options are available to cover the majority of your health care needs and to provide you and your eligible dependents with coverage for extraordinary expenses. •When Coverage Begins •Coverage for you and your eligible dependents begins on your date of hire. •Annual Enrollment If you are enrolled in one of the medical/dental plans NASSCO offers, you may change to one of the other medical/dental plans during the annual enrollment period which is two weeks in November each year. Once you change your medical or dental plan or both to another medical/dental plan, your new coverage becomes effective the following January. •New Dependents To have coverage from the time you acquire a new dependent, you must enroll him or her within 31 days following the date you acquire the new dependent. Coverage becomes...
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...training program for the new member to increase his or her skills and qualifications to appropriately fit within the school requirements. The methods of evaluating the future faculty member and performance will also be included, along with a progressive discipline process. Challenges for prospects performance evaluation, total rewards packages, compensation plan, and strategies for managing faculty’s career development will also be discussed. Job descriptions and qualifications: The prospect will teach primarily in the area of Business Ethics. Candidate may also teach a combination of required and elective courses such as perspectives of Business Society. The perfect candidate for the job will be someone that has earned a doctorate in a business discipline or closely related area. For this to be accomplished besides of spending some money in external recruiting I will recommend for the school to use some of the current staff as an employee referral source, some members of the staff can be offered a referral bonus of $3000 if the referral leads to an immediate hire and the applicant signs up to teach at the school for at least 3 years from the hiring date. Another resource for attracting prospects will be to advertise with an external company that will be able to attract the quality of applicants that the school’s needs, such as krgstaffing.com “Strategic and Tactical Services, every business today needs solutions to staffing challenges. At Key Resource Group our professional...
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...Part Three Case: Martin’s Textiles, pp. 299-300 BA 2430 – International Management Edward Ruppel Summary Martin’s Textiles is very much in doubt with the enactment of the North American Free Trade Agreement (NAFTA), which is an agreement between Canada, Mexico, and the United States for free trade, that would not only eliminate tariffs but also allow an increase in quota from Canada and Mexico to ship textiles to the United States. Compounding the issues, Martin’s Textiles has been experiencing small losses over the past several years and has received threats of losing long-term customers. Nonetheless, John Martin, Martin’s Textiles CEO, has to make the decision whether or not to move his company’s production, currently based in New York where the company has strong family like relations with its employees, to Mexico in order to reduce labor cost or wait for an imminent bankruptcy. Martin’s Textiles was founded in 1910 and has spanned four generations of the Martin family. However, with the implementation of NAFTA, all tariffs between the Canada, Mexico and the United States would be eliminated within the next 10 to 15 years with most tariffs cut in 5 years. For Martin’s Textiles the plan’s provision that all tariffs on trade of textiles amount the tree countries would be removed within 10 years would be the especially impactful. Yet, what was even more overwhelming for the textile industry was that the quota for Canada and Mexico to ship clothing and textiles to...
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...Comprehensive Case Scenario Human Resources Management The Wilson Brothers Limited Case Case Scenario Written By Charles Purchase, Seneca College (Case Fictional) History In 1960, the Wilson Brothers, Bob and John, started Wilson Brothers Limited. This Canadian company manufactured and distributed various lines of prepared food products for the Canadian market from a number of plants, with the head office located in Brandon, Manitoba. Bob was just 23 years old at the time, and John was 21. In the first year of operations, the sales volume for Wilson Brothers Limited was $300,000. By 2000, Wilson Brothers Limited had six operating plants in Canada. They had also expanded to the western US market and had several plants in Europe. Wilson Export Division was responsible for exporting product to Japan and China. In 2000, the total sales volume of the Company was over $6 billion. The company was a Canadian business success story, both at home and abroad. In addition to the spectacular volume increases, the company was very well managed financially. It had no reason to go public to raise capital as it financed all of its expansion through earnings. There were several reasons for the Company’s exponential growth. First and foremost, the brothers valued hard work. They each worked ten to twelve hours per day, even in the latter stages of their careers. Consequently, their senior and middle management group worked similar hours. Secondly, each brother was a...
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...Managerial Economics Case Studies Institutional Affiliation Managerial Economics Case Studies #1. Three aspects of organizational architecture The three vital components of organizational architecture are: a) assignment of decision rights; b) methods of rewarding individuals; and c) structure of systems to evaluate the performance of both individuals and business units. First, assignment of decision rights involves giving the responsibility of decision-making to top-level executives. It is imperative that an organization is able to delegate the duty of making a decision to a manager who has relevant information and knowledge on the internal and external factors that affects the operations and goals of the organization. The architecture of an organization and its environment will determine who will be the decision-maker for the company. In some organizations, the top-level executive may have them most relevant information and thus, a centralized decision-making process can be adopted. There are instances when the lower-level employees may have the most relevant information, thus, decision-making rights become decentralized. Second, methods of rewarding individuals determine how the organization will provide incentives to its employees. Organizational goals and employee’s productivity play great roles in determining a scheme of remuneration. Some organizations repay their employees through financial rewards such as the monthly wage, and cost of living allowance, and other benefits...
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...BANGLADESH LABOUR LAW 2006-(RMG SECTOR) Table of Contents Page No. PART 1: WORKING CONDITIONS ..........................................................................................1 1.1 WAGES...............................................................................................................................4 1.1.1 Definition ................................................................................................................. 4 1.1.2 Persons responsible for the payment of wages ........................................................ 5 1.1.3 Fixation of wage periods and time of payment of wages ......................................... 5 1.1.4 Deductions from the wages ...................................................................................... 6 1.1.5 Grievance procedure in case of illegal deductions or delay in payment ................. 6 1.2 WORKING HOURS AND LEAVES ...............................................................................8 1.2.1 Daily hours............................................................................................................... 8 1.2.2 Interval for rest and meal* ...................................................................................... 8 1.2.3 Weekly hours** ........................................................................................................ 8 1.2.4 Weekly Holiday*** ...............................................................................................
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...that is too easy abused? The FMLA entitles eligible employees to take up to 12 weeks of unpaid, job-protected leave each year for specified family and medical reasons. The FMLA applies to all government workers and private sector employers that employ 50 or more employees within a 75-mile radius (Barth, S. & Hayes, D. K. 2009). Having this particular benefit, allows for employees to take time off in order to care for loved ones. This also guarantees the employee will not lose their job. Besides sick time, having additional benefits such as FMLA can help the employee deal with any family emergency. To be eligible for these benefits, an employee must have worked for an employer for a total of 12 months (not necessarily consecutively) and must have worked for the organization at least 1,250 hours in the past 12 months. These employees are generally guaranteed their current job, or one equal to it, on their return. If, however, an organization can show that it will suffer significant economic damage by having a “key” employee out on FMLA leave, the organization may deny the leave (DeCenzo, D. A. & Robbins, S. P. 2007). There are some guidelines to taking FMLA, and for good reasons. In order to take the FMLA benefit, the...
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...| BENEFITS AND RATES FOR HERITAGE HEALTH FUND MEDICAL AID FUND Effective 1 August 2013 | All Benefits are per Beneficiary | PLATINUM | GOLD | SILVER | BRONZE | BRONZE Lite | ZINC | Global LimitInpatient limitOutpatient limit | 75,000.0052,500.0022,500.00 | 50,000.0035,000.0015,000.00 | 30,000.0021,000.009,000.00 | 15,000.0010,500.004,500.00 | 10,000.007,000.003,000.00 | 8,000.005 600.002 400.00 | Hospital Access | All Pvt HospitalsPres. Suite | All Pvt Hospitals Pvt. ward | All Pvt HospitalsTwo Bed. Ward | All Pvt HospitalsGeneral Ward | Group B,C,D Hospitals Only General Ward | Government & Mission Hospitals, and municipal clinics | Hospitalisation incl. Maternity, Radiology & Pathology | Covered up to limit | Covered up to limit | Covered up to limit | Covered up to limit | Covered up to limit | Covered up to limit | Chronic Drugs incl. ARVs | 1,500.00 | 1000.00 | 800.00 | 500.00 | 300.00 | 200.00 | Acute Drugs | 600.00 | 500.00 | 400.00 | 300.00 | 200.00 | 150.00 | Chronic Nursing | 3,000.00 | 2,000.00 | 1,200.00 | 1,000.00 | 800.00 | 500.00 | Dental incl. dentures | 2,000.00 | 1,500.00 | 1,000.00 | 800.00 | 450.00 | 300.00 | Orthodontic | 1,500.00 | 800.00 | 500.00 | 300.00 | 200.00 | 150.00 | Optical (once in two years) | 700.00 | 550.00 | 400.00 | 250.00 | 200.00 | 15000 | Prosthesis | 4,500.00 | 3,500.00 | 2,000.00 | 1,500.00 | 800.00 | 400.00...
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