A study on unethical behaviors and ethical dilemmas in human resources management

Human resources management and business ethics are established at two levels. The first of these; to apply the principles of business ethics in the execution of human resources functions and applications. The second one is that the organization carries out activities to support employees in their behaviors within the framework of business ethics. At both levels, human resources management takes on a central responsibility. The subject of the study is ethical dilemmas and unethical behaviors in human resources management. The purpose of the study is to determine the ethical dilemmas faced by human resources employees and the unethical practices they involve, and to determine why these behaviors are caused. "What are the ethical dilemmas that human resources employees experienced and unethical behaviors that they involved? " compose the research question. The research is designed as a qualitative research and data collection technique is an interview. Within the scope of the research, HRM functions of recruitment, training and development, career and performance management of the findings was obtained. In this context, the blind recruitment technique, which provides a fair choice in the recruitment process, is not used, and questions about private life can be asked during interviews. It has been observed that there are deficiencies in performance evaluation, career management and training processes which can lead to unethical behaviors and dilemmas. Although the participants expressed the individual flaws of HR employees in these processes, they associated the unethical behaviors and dilemmas with the processes in the organization and made suggestions to eliminate them.