Ethical Issues in Hiring for Management

Ethical Issues in Hiring

Plan for a full scale production is almost set; company is set to hiring employees who can work and adapt to company culture. Managers are giving responsibility to hire for their own department. With thousands of applicants willing to work especially for major company, managers should not only have ethical judgment but moral responsibility to ensure who they hire meets corporate hiring codes. Can this scenario ever happen? I feel that when job growth occurs in a company anything is possible. With open discretion for managers to hire who they want in his or her department, there might be moral or ethical issues may surface. With that in mind, I would like explain several issues manages may experience while going through hiring process. First, describing moral and ethical issues managers may face. Second, relationship between social issues and ethical responsibility managers may encounter. And lastly, workplace example of ethical dilemma managers faces during hiring process, legalities governing manage decision.

Moral and Ethical Issues Managers May Face

When managers are in a situation of hiring sixty to eighty people for his or her department what issues can they face? For several weeks managers are going through applicants resume and conducting phone interviews to determine whom they want to formally interview in a company facility. Morally managers cannot discriminate because of age, gender, sex, religion, or sexual orientation. Many companies in United States have law pertaining to hiring; certain percentage has to be minority or cannot discriminate against handicap person. There is a law prohibits discrimination in which if potential employees do feel discriminated they can file under Title VII of Civil Rights Act of 1964 (Trevino 2006). Managers have ethical responsibility to making the right decision to combine all different groups of people and forming a dynamic working environment. Managers should restrict...