ETHICS IN HRM

ETHICS IN HRM

Human resource management focus on manpower planning and employees activities in an organisation, it is the main special branch of management and it concerns human issue mainly the compensation, industrial relation, development, and health and safety issue.

EXAMPLES OF UNETHICAL BEHAVIOR

• Lying to your spouse about how much money you spent.
• Lying to your parents about where you were for the evening.
• Stealing money from the petty cash drawer at work.
• Lying on your resume in order to get a job.
• Talking about a friend behind his back.
• Taking credit for work you did not do.

McDonald's Discrimination case on WORKING CONDITION AND HUMAN RIGHTS

The Guardian published an article titled 'You want fries with your poverty wages and exploited McDonald's workers?', which was based off of the fact of McDonalds treating their employees in illegal and criminal manner.  In New York City, november 2012, approximately 200 fastwood workers belonging to the McDonalds industry, went on strike to demand hourly wages of 15 dollars and the right to form a union. This protest arose strikes, organizers and protests in 150 US cities, and at least 33 countries. 

In Brazil, the Food and Hospitality Workers Union (Sinthoresp) has been battling McDonald's over issues including wage theft, poverty-level pay and mistreatment of pregnant workers. Demonstrations were planned for Thursday at McDonald's in five Brazilian states. Fast-food workers in Japan will protest at 30 McDonald's locations in 30 prefectures, calling for an hourly wage of ¥1,500 – about the equivalent of the US $15 per hour. In South Korea, a protest wasplanned in front of a major Seoul McDonald's.

South Korean labor leader Cheong Ok-soon explained the action to the Local Press: "Everywhere you go in the world, fast-food workers are suffering with low wages, long hours and unstable employment. They can't live a normal life under the working conditions they face now, so they have no option but to fight in solidarity." This shows that McDonalds is underpaying and abusing their workers on an international basis. 

Based off of these situations, it appears that McDonald's lacks ethical aspects by abusing the right's of their employee's and co-workers in various countries; particularly less-developed and third world or second world countries. They appear to give poor working hours; therefore decreasing their employees health rates significantly, as well as underpaying them; leaving the company wealthy, but leaving their employees on a low-wage