Reference no: EM132874376

1. You are a personnel manager for a medium-sized company, and you are faced with what you see as a series of ethical dilemmas. Consider how you would approach each scenario, and what ethical principles you would apply. Describe, explain, demonstrate, criticize and assess:

Scenario 1 It is the custom in your industry for customers to be lavishly entertained. Your company gives each customer's sales manager a bottle of very good quality malt whisky on his or her birthday, his or her partner's birthday, and at Christmas. Your purchasing manager expects similar perks from his suppliers.

Scenario 2 Your organisation is undertaking a number of redundancies. You decide who is to be made redundant. The production manager asks you to add a particular worker to the list. This worker does not meet any of your criteria or redundancy, but he is well known for not getting on with the production manager. You point out that if you sack this worker without justification, he will take you to an Employment Tribunal and will win a claim of unfair dismissal. The production manager's response is, 'Fine, It'll be worth it to get rid of him'.

Scenario 3 You are responsible for training, and you have used an old friend of yours to run a recent training programme. Your friend met all your criteria and had adequate if not glowing references. However, feedback from the programme is strongly negative. You are about to repeat the programme, and your friend has asked you if he/she will be given a repeat contract.