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Week 10 Lecture - Future Themes and Challenges-1
Week 10 Lecture - Future Themes and Challenges-1
Week 10 Lecture - Future Themes and Challenges-1
4. Cyber terrorism – hardware, software, and human systems to deal with hacking,
information theft, internal sabotage, the sabotage of software systems.
5. Out of facility fire and travel risks – travel policies, policies prohibiting top level
managers from traveling on the same airline flight, hotel evacuation training if
traveling teams of employees are staying at the same hotel.
External Factors - International
Business ethics and HRM
• Managers involved in international business activities
face many of the same ethical issues as those in the
domestic sense.
• Ethical relativism
no universal or international rights or wrongs
• Ethical absolutism
one should do what one would do at home
• Ethical universalism
there are principles of right and wrong which
transcend cultural boundaries
International Assignees…
• Their ability to manage with integrity is job-
relevant
• Pre-departure training should include an ethics
component