1. BA 453/553 Human Resource Management

2. Agenda May 16, 2006 Group Presentations: Guest Speaker: Mike Hereford, Director of Human Resources, Cascade Steel Rolling Mills Break Ethics & Fair Treatment at Work Activity

3. Ethics & Fair Treatment at Work The Meaning of Ethics “Making decisions that represent what you stand for, not just what the laws are.”

4. What do you see?

7. Ethics are always characterized by: Normative judgment Good or bad, right or wrong, better or worse Principles of conduct Morality, which is society’s accepted standards of behavior

8. How Do My Ethics Rate? 1) 3.09 2) 1.88 3) 2.54 4) 3.41 5) 3.88 6) 2.88 7) 3.62 8) 3.79 9) 3.44 10) 1.33 11) 1.58 12) 2.31 13) 3.36 14) 3.79 15) 3.38

9. Ethical Questions 1. Is it wrong to use office equipment to help your children or spouse do school work? 2. During an interview, you discover the applicants child has leukemia. This will destroy the company health benefit plan. What do you do? 3. What’s the value at which a gift from a supplier or client becomes troubling? $25$50$100

10. What shapes ethical behaviors at work? Individual Factors  Individual ideas of what’s morally right and wrong  Personal interests Organizational Factors  Meeting aggressive financial or business objectives  Helping the company to survive

11. What shapes ethical behaviors at work? The Boss - Examples of how supervisors knowingly or unknowingly lead subordinates astray  Do whatever it takes.  Look the other way when wrongdoings occur.  Take credit for others’ work or shift blame.

12. Activity In your groups discuss the situations and answer the following Questions 1. What do you do now? 2. How do you prevent this problem from occurring in the future? Choose a spokes person to present your situation & answers to the class.

13. May 23, 2006 Group Presentations 5, 6, 7, & 8 Read Beaver Mfg. To prepare read Beaver Mfg (Posted) and Chapter 9 Groups 7 & 8 will be observers & consultants. Review for Second exam