business paper 01

Need to write 2 full pages essay, total word count :700

ETHICAL DILEMMAS IN HR MANAGEMENT

Assume that you are the human resource manager for a service organization. Your boss recently read that most employees underestimate the value of the benefits provided to them by their employer. He has instructed you to develop a plan for communicating
the costs of benefits to your employees. Although you agree that communicating this information is a good idea, he has instructed you to manipulate the information so that it looks better than the reality.

For example, your firm offers 10 sick days per year. The average employee takes only 8 days per year and forfeits the unused number of days. Your boss wants you to talk about this benefit as though everyone took their full allotment. Your firm offers two health-insurance options: a basic or standard plan and a premium plan. Both the com- pany and the individual pay more if the premium plan is chosen. He wants you to quote only the cost for the more expensive plan, even though more than half of your workers have chosen the standard plan.

When you questioned his ideas, your boss simply said, “These are the potential costs that we could incur for everyone. Just because people don’t take all their sick days or they select the basic insurance plan, that’s their choice. The company is willing to pay for
10 sick days and for the high-end insurance. So we should get credit for being generous.”

QUESTIONS

1. What are the ethical issues in this situation?
2. What are the basic arguments for and against what your boss is instructing you to do? 3. What do you think most managers would do? What would you do?