Ethical Considerations for HR Professionals

All too frequently, headlines broadcast the latest local and national corporate scandals. Whether it's cover-ups, money laundering, insider trading, outright theft, corrupt practices, or conflicts of interest, there is no shortage of highly public and highly publicized documentation of ethical lapses within this nation's corporations.

This phenomenon, however, is not limited to the private sector. The words just look a little different when we talk about ethical lapses in the public sector, where we might find ourselves reading headlines that talk about, for instance, “misappropriation of public funds.” In both school and governmental settings, there have been far too many examples of employees engaging ...

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