Unethical practises or behavior of human resource

Unethical practises or behavior of human resource

Human resources are considered as one of the most important factor for an organization's survival.

What is human resource?
Human resources are the people who work for an organizationor firm
                               Or
The person  of a business or organization, regarded as a significant in terms of skills,abilities and they are significant asset of an organization

Some of the unethical Practises or behavior of human resource are-

1. Misusing company time-

Whether it is covering for someonealtering a time sheet or instead of showing up late showing on time entry . This category includes that people using the working hours of business for his or her own work or satisfaction.

2. Abusive behavior-

Too many workplaces are filled with managers and supervisors who use their position and power to mistreat,abuse or disrespect others.Even if you are in a situation of abuse based on gender, individual race there is often no legal protection against abusive behavior at the workplace. 

3. Employee theft-

According to a recent study 3 out of 50 workers were caught stealing things from the organization. Even more startling is that these employees steal on average 5.5 times more than shoplifters who steal things worth of 25000 rather than them employee steal thigs worth of 75000. Employee fraud is also on the upper level, whether its check tampering, not recording sales in order to skim, or manipulating expense reimbursements. According to a report in united states the employee theft is growing rapidly.

4. Lying to employees-

The fastest way to lose the trust of your employees is to lying to employees, yet employers do it all the time. One of out every five employees report that their manager or supervisor has lied to them within the past year.The lead to the breakdown of trust and beliefs.

5. Violating company internet policies-

Cyberslackers.These are terms used to identify people who surf the Web when they should be working. It's a huge, multi-billion-dollar problem for companies. A survey conducted recently  found that everyday 70 percent people visit any other side which is irrelevant to their work or when they thought they have no work.

Conclusion-

According to a report people genrally follow ethical norms which are laid down by the companies.But the unethical behavior in employees is climbing up from 16 percent to 23 percent which is not a good sign.Even though with attractive HR policy organization are trying to reduce unethical practises of human resource but still it is not affecting it in such a manner that is expected.Such practises by employees lead to loss of trust and disruptes the bond between the management and employees

Unethical Practices in finance and its  causes:

The unethical practices in accounting are generally found in proprietarship and partnership business and it is lower in public limited companies and MNCs as compared to proprietarship and partnership.

Some of the unfair practises are:-

The Chit Funds Scams:

 chit fund companies frauds are not new in a country where 40% people do not have bank account. The only case of Sahara stands an odd one due to Supreme Court to safeguard small investors. It is intresting to know that chit fund scam was not able to expose 16 ponzi firms due to failure of crime branch 

to provide details of such firms. 

Due to lack of faith on formal financial system, only 6% of household saving is invested  into mutual funds and equity. Only a few cases like Sahara, Saradha and Pearls 

come to the media attention .

Pearl group case is estimated to be worth Rs 51000 crore.
 Rose Valley has been found to be involved in cheating Rs 17000 crore of innocent investors. iCORE raised Rs 7000 crore from investors . 

Deducting Money without Consent of account holder lead to a case in coimbatore consumer court lead to ordered a bank to pay compensation of Rs 14000 for deducting Rs. 12 from bank account of an individual without consent for insurance premium.Banks also face criticism from RBI and IRDAI for such practises.

Miss-selling

Miss-selling is a becoming a preferred unfair means of banks. They have emerged as the big culprits in mis-selling (Singh, 2016). SEBI has issued cause notice to HSBC bank in case of Suchitra Krishnamoorthi for unsuitable mutual funds selling and taking commission from them. Krishnamoorthi lost Rs 2 crores out of Rs. 4 crores wealth being managed by HSBC . The complaint was filed first to the banking  but it was rejected. Later money life foundation emailed to all three regulaors instead of doing anything IRDAI simply passed an statemenet  and Tata AIA 

response (Basu, 2014). SEBI also threatened the HSBC bank to stop him  as a distributor and ban HSBC from securities market. It was second time SEBI has ventured into the territory of RBI. 

Sumit Bose Committee recommended that for every financial product there should be a single sheet on which all important disclosures about the product are made in clear and large font size. It should also be stated why the product is suitable for the customer based on his/her age, income and risk profile. The sheet should be signed by the seller .

Factors Responsible for Unethical Practices in Financial Services:

Political Colonialism-

End of British Colonialism led India with empty , which is latter filled by politicians

Politicians  became the controller of resources, in collaboration withindustrialist and investigating agencies.  The perpetrators of crime and fraud are given the responsibility to investigate their own crime. The investigation is a cover up 

to show to innocent voters and citizens that a law & order and investigation machinery exists in the country. All the files get closed after some time and no conclusive results ever achieved in any major investigation. The innocent voters forget the scams after some time and the business 

of political colonialism (in collaboration with bureaucrats and industrialist) continues as usual.

Judicial Constraints-

In India there are more than three crore pending cases in Indian judicial system . Even if a brave innocent investors duped by fraud chit funds companies, files a complaint in a court, there is little chance that the case will come for hearing in the lifetime of the complainant. Similarly fraud chit fund operators are aware of the possibility of their case not 

coming up for hearing in their lifetime this motivates them to continue to indulge in such activities because of little possibility of getting punishment while alive. Judicial constraints act as an advantage for fraudulent chit fund companies and disadvantage for innocent small investors. 

In a country with surplus talented manpower, it is ironical that there is acute shortage of judges. 

The shortage is planned policy of politicians to keep the judicial system in resource constraints so that the backlog of cases can never be cleared and the politicians can rule the country in nexus 

with corrupt bureaucrats and unethical businessmen without any fear of being ever summoned by any court of law as their case will never come up for hearing in their lifetime due to backlog of 

cases, and if it appears in any court of law, the hearing will most likely never reach any conclusion. Judicial constraint is artificially created by politicians to protect their own corrupt rule from fair judicial system of country. 

Cultural Barriers-

The Indian culture is dominated by preference to caste, ethnic and religious sentiments over 

integrity and honesty of political candidates in election market. Indian voters have only one criteria to decide whom to vote and that is caste (in a broader sense including ethnic, religious belonging), even if the candidate is involved in corruption and many other anti socia l activities.The politicians are well aware of the acceptance of corrupt candidates of same caste by voters so they have no hesitation live a luxury life style and use innocent people and national resources for personal satisfaction.

In a country where doctors steal and sell kidney and other body parts, politicians steal files from home ministry of people suspected to be terrorist, people with fake degree become law ministerin state cabinet like Delhi, size of black money is worth Rs 30,000 crore or 20% of GDP of the 

country , a baby dies because family could not pay RS 20 bribe to government hospital staff for injection the corruption and unethical practices are considered as a necessary evil to survive in an all corrupt system.

Recommendations

The unbanked people are soft targets for chit fund companies. The unbanked people should be provided access to formal banking system. The regulatory framework for chit funds should be made stringent and security walls made robust enough so that it is difficult to lure innocent 

investors and run away with their money. The investigations should be fast forward and punishment made enough to act as a deterrent. The regulatory framework should be proactive 

rather than reactive. Tocreate awarness and alertness in investors,investing agencies should expand the mutual fund to middle level with strict rules and regulations.

Conclusion-

Awareness, Access to banking, Alertness of investors and promptness of investigating agencies can save investors from unethical practices of financial services. Expanding the mutual funds to middle class households and financial inclusion will provide better and well regulated option to 

investors and strict enforcement of regulatory provisions will reduce the incidences of unfair 

practices in financial services.

Unethical Marketing Practices

Businesses all have their own ethical obligations. As a researcher, you too have ethical guidelines you need to take care when preparing to conduct research or start looking for secondary option for your firm .some businesses use unfair means to promote their products or to increase the sale of their products.

 # What is an unethical marketing practice?

It is a way of showing the product diffrently than what actually the product is.  This unethical marketing practice may include intentionally  to making customer sad and manipulation of consumer decisions, using fear tactics, and targeting people of apecific group

Some of the ways of unethical marketing practises are discussed below:

1.Fake reviews-

Fake reviews are the reviews that are unreal or made through bots which show the product diffrent and effective as such in real it is not

Fake reviews have covered in every area of e-commerce starting from pins to the elephants.Reviewtracking website Fakespot  estimatest a third of online reviews on sites like Walmart.com, Amazon.com, and Sephora.com are fake. WSJ reported that the three retailers have disputed Fakespot’s findings, but have also taken steps to improve the reliability of reviews on their platforms.

The US Federal Trade Commission recently revealed that beauty brand Sunday Riley faked reviews of its own products on Sephora’s website for more than two years. Just after one week of this news one gaming site has deleted over 3000 fake reviews on games that are of low quality but in comment they are shown as good

2.Black chat SEO-
Blackhat SEO is a broad term used to describe tactics, method designed to trick Google’s search algorithm-
-Hiding spammy text  full of keywords so only search engines see it or can recommend it.

-Paying for links to important pages on your site.so that on their page only your content is shown.

-Using blog comments or forums to plant links back to your site

-Jamming keywords into title tags, alt tags and other bits of the page that Google looks at.

-headlines that bear no relation to the content on your page as a clickbait.

3. Doctoring -
Doctoring photos or using photos that are not authentic or unethical representations. Most people expect professional photographers to make the most of lighting and close-ups pictures and videos. But the finished products should be accurate depictions that are shown are of touch-ups and other enhancement techniques that are designed to mislead.

4. Plagiarizing -
Discovering that a competitor has copied or impinged on a tagline, blog post or promotion can be painful or infuriating. The reality is, plagiarism probably happens more often than most people will ever know, because of the internet.

People should know that if anyone is using their content without permission than they should take some action against them.

5. Making false, exaggerated, or unverified claims-

In a competitive market every seller want to sell their product to buyer to make customer buy their product marketers use false statements, exaggerated benefits, or make unverifiable claims about their offers. This is common in the health induatry where marketers convince buyers.

6. Concealing dark sides or side effects of products or services-

This unethical marketing practice is more in the industry where products contain some  natural remedies , where most manufacturers fakes potential buyers that their products have no side effects because they are “made from natural products”. But in reality,their is no products have been found not having side effects, especially when used over a long period. Any if any claim is made then their should be proper medical report or certification need to be published.

These kind of practises in business can lead an Unethical marketing, on the other hand, can send wrong signals about your products and services, destroy your brand’s reputation, and possibly lead to legal problems.

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