Management Review (2003) 8(1), 27-42 The Practice of Corporate Downsizing during Economic Downturn among Selected Companies in Malaysia Junaidah Hashim* and Anizah Abu Bakar** （received September 2002;revision received November 2002 ;accepted January 2003） This paper examines the organizational strategies and the effects of corporate downsizing in Malaysia. It reports the results of a survey of 30 Malaysian companies that engaged in downsizing during the economic downturn. Three research questions
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ethical dilemma occurs. It can become difficult at times in making the correct decisions or solutions to the situation, which is why a code of ethics is established in the workplace. The code of ethics in the workplace was established to assist with the process of a company analyzing the behavioral practices within the company procedures. Code of ethics in the workplace is used in defining, requiring, encouraging, and engaging employees in the direction of the correct behavior. The purpose
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Workplace Ethics No worker wants to be placed in an uncomfortable position. Issues worsen when a bad situation is likely to impact not only the employee’s job but the jobs of fellow coworkers. These bad situations are prone to cause even more stress when the decision to act is not so black and white, rather full of a gray area. These types of issues often occur when decisions collide with an employee’s personal ethics. In the case ‘How Personal Can Ethics Get?’ Valerie (an employee of Wisson)
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the business world is constantly changing in regard to globalization, technology, diversity, e-business, and ethics. Globalization Globalization is occurring more frequently these days than in the past and has a major impact on human resources management (HRM). When a business goes global, they need to consider these important factors: employment laws, culture, terminology, and corporate social responsibility ("How globalization effects," 2011). The HR managers are recruiting and selecting from
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Case Study 3: Zappos: Delivering Customer Satisfaction Ruby Holmes Strayer University Ethics and Advocacy for Human Resource Professional (HRM 522) June 7, 2015 Dr. Leslie Wills Case Study 3: Zappos: Delivering Customer Satisfaction 1. [Analyze the manner in which Zappos’ leadership has fostered a culture of ethicalness in the company. Zappos was able to capture the uniqueness of talented individuals by cultivating a craving to welcome an enhance
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How Personal Can Ethics Get BUS 520 William Harris Strayer University The workplace can present many ethical and moral issues. It was no different with Valerie Young, what she experienced left her between a rock and hard place. In her position, I probably would respond the same way. Without the option of changing employment along with being deported and her educational goals those personal needs and desires weighed heavily on her decision. However, I believe her decision not
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Professional Values and Ethics The successes and failures of a company can often be attributed directly from their practices in upholding their values and ethics, and as the country deals with the effects of the decline of these values and ethics, in this essay we examine the role that they play in the rise and decline in career and business successes. We study the professional values of a good upstanding and moral leadership within the company to compare the company’s objective outcome. As we
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Human resources management is a strategic and coherent approach to the management of an organisation’s most valued assets. (Armstrong 2006). It is also defined as the function responsible for establishing integrated personnel policies to support organizational strategy. Cole (2000). It is responsible for attracting, recruiting, and selecting, training and rewarding employees. In Zimbabwe Human resources management has been affected by a number of trends which are political, economic, socio-cultural
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paper 2.2) -HR's involvement in ethics programs is important to success, but HR should not expect to accomplish the task alone. Fairness issues are important to employees and the involvement of HR staff and departments in ethics and compliance programs could be important to the real and perceived fairness of those programs. HR offices can play a key role in developing ethics programs with a proper balance of values and compliance orientations, and in integrating ethics programs into important organizational
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choices may not provide (Awasthi Vidya 2008). For many businesses a popular way to fulfil profit maximisation is to partake upon expense minimisation schemes, as consequences many businesses choose partake on unethical activities such as outsourcing, downsizing, and
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