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HR Ethics Scenarios Worksheet HRM/300 Version 7 University of Phoenix Material HR Ethics Scenarios Worksheet Answer the following questions for each corresponding scenario. (Each scenario should be answered in no more than 350 words) 1. The HR Director is having lunch outside the office. She hears a competitor talking about a significant change in their business that could affect the performance of her own firm. What is HR’s ethical duty? Explain why this may fall under corporate responsibility and insider trading. 2. The head of HR refers a family member to a department head for consideration in an “unposted” job. What do you do? Copyright © 2018 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 1 HR Ethics Scenarios Worksheet HRM/300 Version 7 Explain this in the context of the corporate responsibility or conflict of interest. 3. You just started your new job as the Director of HR for a government contractor. After being there for a few weeks, you notice that employees are being periodically drug tested. However, the tests don’t appear random and tend to focus on one specific group. Why is it important to investigate and resolve the issue immediately? What should the investigation include? Does the Drug Free Workplace Act apply here? Copyright © 2018 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 2 HR Ethics Scenarios Worksheet HRM/300 Version 7 4. The manager at one of your locations calls you and wants to terminate an employee for having religious quotes in his desk area. The area is located in the back room and no one but that person has access to the room. Do you make the person remove them? Why or why not? Can the employee file a lawsuit under the Civil Rights Act, Title VII (1964)? Why or why not? Explain why the manager might not have a case for making the employee take the quotes down. Copyright © 2018 by University of Phoenix. All rights reserved. 3
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HR Ethics Scenarios Worksheet
HRM/300 Version 7

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HR Ethics Scenarios Worksheet

Answer the following questions for each corresponding scenario. (Each scenario should be
answered in no more than 350 words)

1. The HR Director is having lunch outside the office. She hears a competitor talking about a
significant change in their business that could affect the performance of her own firm.
What is HR’s ethical duty?
Information obtained by the HR director was captured in an open play field, and due to this, we can
not say that she got it through unlawful or unethical means. It is the ethical responsibility of an
employee to take action that brings benefit to his or her respective company. Therefore it is the
moral duty of the HR director to make that information to the relevant department in her company
and explain it to them beginning with how and from who she obtained it from. Secondly, as the HR
director, she should act according to her capacity to find out ways in which she can counter the
threat that has been posted by her competitors. If that information happens to be concerning matters
of human resource, it is the ethical duty of the director to find new or existing talent that will help
eliminate the competitor's threat.

Explain why this may fall under corporate responsibility and insider trading.

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HR Ethics Scenarios Worksheet
HRM/300 Version 7

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Insider trading can be defined as the unlawful acquiring of corporate information from a firm and
thereafter using it to the benefit over the organization that the information was obtained from
(Kumar, 2017). With the use of the term insider, it does not necessarily mean that the person must
be from the company at the question, but it can also refer to anyone related to the issue including
associates. With this information, we can categorize this scenario under insider trading since the
HR director became aware of information that was non-public. Another angle that the case of
corporate responsibility and insid...


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