HRM 300 Week 2 Ethics Scenarios

1. The HR Director is having lunch outside the office. She hears a competitor talking about a significant change in their business that could affect the performance of her own firm.

What is HRs ethical duty? Since the information pertaining to the significant change in the competitions business was obtained in a public setting and was not intentional, I think that the HR director has every right to use this information to better her firm. Having the inside knowledge of a competitors next move is very convenient as it will allow the HR director to share this information with the proper departments in an effort to combat or even be better than the competing company. In some ways this may be viewed as an unfair advantage for the...