Legal and Ethical Issues

Legal & Ethical Issues SUMAII Sec A – Professor Williamson

Human Resources Management

8/13/2011

DeVry University Online

Tammy Voelkel

Table of Contents

I. Introduction

II. Education

III. Ethics

IV. Code of Ethics and who enforces them

V. Examples

VI. Conclusion

VII. Resources

VIII.

When you have decided that you want to pursue a career as a Human Resources Manager there are a number of things that you need to consider, for instance you need to make sure that you are capable of handling a number of things at one time, you must be able to write and speak effectively and with the technology changing every day the need to keep yourself updated on those changes and be able to communicate those changes to other staff members within an organization. A Human Resources Manager also handles confidential material daily and must be able to demonstrate that they are discrete, handle conflict, different points of views, and know what the current labor laws are and if they change they must communicate that with employees. With the growing diversity of the work place today, human resources managers work with and/or supervise people of different ages, cultures, levels of education and experiences. Human resources is important because they are the people who keep up with all of the current laws, takes care of benefit packages, makes sure that there is adequate employees for the work load, try to limit the turnover within an organization and help their organizations increase the performance.

The education of a Human Resources Manager can vary depending on whether you want to become a human resources generalist which handles all aspects of human resources work, the director of human resources which they supervise a number of departments, a recruitment specialist is one who does the recruiting, hiring, and firing of employees, employment interviewers, occupational analysts who researches a classification system and the study of...