Human resource – Incentives and punishments
1. Do you think it is ethical when an employer decides to
penalize employees who eat their favorite junk foods and gain weight or smoke
cigarettes, which are legal products?
2. What can an organization do to ensure that merit pay and
other incentives are administered fairly? What kind of data would you gather to
ensure that the pay-for-performance system is not biased in favor of any
particular group? Would linking pay to objective criteria that are important to
the organization—such as quality control measures, profitability, and low
turnover—help or hurt in administering pay?
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