Assignment 1: Employment-At-Will Doctrine Employment-at-will is the current employment practice performed in the United States. Employment-at-will states that an employer can terminate an employee for any reason; good, bad or indifferent. It also allows the employee to leave the employment of the company at any time and for any reason. Over the years following the adoption of the employment-at-will doctrine, there have been some exceptions applied that employers must follow when it comes to terminating
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Performance Management Jasmine Sims HRM 500 Human Resource Management Foundations Jo-Rene Queensberry December 3, 2014 Sometimes company have experienced a significant reduction in earnings, resulting in the layoff of a number of retail sales associates due to the economic downturn. On a positive not some business seems to be rebounded, however with every business there is always concerns with performance, but there are always recommend ways to increase sales and customer service. This paper
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Professional Responsibility Mulligan versus Friedman perspectives on moral business decisions * Mulligan: Execs have most knowledge and will be better at at analyzing problems and implementing solutions * Friedman: Execs are not competent to solve moral problems – should be left to governemtn Director/Officer “Duty of Due Care Standard” in the Business Judgment Rule Statutory duty to act: 1. “In Good Faith” – NO SELF INTEREST 2. “With Care of an ordinarly prudent person”
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disabled Americans. In order to complete exception services, the for-profit organization will build on its profits to establish new and creative opportunities in rehabilitation, employment, and job trainings. The organization will establish a foundation by developing a mission, value statement, and purpose. A team of ethical leaders will establish a mission statement, code of ethics, and leadership in the community. Description The target population Beyond will provide services for are adults
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internet job postings and resume reviews. There is some degree of truth in a statement made by Jack Welch that says “The team that fields the best players wins”. Part of recruiting the best players is ensuring that they will operate with the highest ethical standards. Can the HR department ensure this? According to Marius Meyer, of the South African Board for People Practice, it can be done by “…proper verification of qualifications and ensuring that recruitment and selection policies and followed”
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Employment-At-Will Doctrine This paper will cover what legal rights employers have and whether they have the right to follow an employment-at-will doctrine. As the newly hired Chief Operating Officer (COO), I am faced with multiple personnel problems. There are eight different scenarios that I have to assess and determine what action to take against the employee, whether the employee can be fired, and what action will limit liability and impact on operations. I have also discovered that the
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COMPANY CASE STUDY Cevdet KIZIL Master of Science in Organizational Leadership Program 1- Knowing that its managers are willing to trade off some economic efficiency in order to operate according to their collective view of what is “ethical”, would you buy shares of stock in this company? Why or why not? First of all, I think we are experiencing a paradox in this situation. Because, the company is trading off economic efficiency in order to operate, but it’s a well known fact that
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following aspects: Employee Handbook Legal Consideration Addressing Performance Issues Ethical Considerations Access to Personnel Files Protection of Practice and Patient Information Identification Visitors/Meetings Monitoring: - Mail/E-Mail - Telephone/Voicemail - Internet Employment Practices Pre-Employment Physical and Drug Screen Pre-Employment Background Checks Conclusion References Business - Management Learning Team Assignment:
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decisions Ethical decisions Stephanie Cuellar HCS/335 July 13, 2015 La Tonya Kelly Ethical decisions Medical coding in a physician office An employee may be pressured into attaining the maximum costs by falsifying documents out of fear of losing their jobs. This medical coder does not want to feed into their supervisor’s greed but also needs their job. They will be left with no other choice but to add services to the patient’s bill that were not truly done in order to gain the most costs
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executives leave a company. Those phrases consist of “spending more time with family” and/or “pursuing other interests.” (Jennings, 2012). However, the problem such idioms raise is whether the statements are an ethical way of temporarily saving face for those executives terminating their employment or the preservation of a company’s reputation in financial hardship. This case deals with virtue of honesty. When an employee leaves an organization, regardless of his or her position, the reason for the
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