Module 3 Posttest

Assignment: Ethical and Legal Issues in HR Management

Scenario: You are the HR Manager for your organization. After a meeting with the operations manager, you close the door to your office to think of strategies to resolve an issue that has come up. The operations manager casually mentioned he had just finished a performance review of one of his employees and offered the employee a large raise because of all the hours the employee was putting in. The raise was equal to 11% of the employees salary. The operations manager, being new both to the company and to a union shop, wasnt aware of the contract agreement surrounding pay increases. According to the contract, an employee must receive a minimum of a 2% pay increase per year and a maximum of 6% per year. You worry that if the union gets wind of this, everyone at that employees pay level may file a grievance asking for the same pay raise. The challenge is that the manager already told this person he would be receiving the 11% raise. You know you need to act fast to remedy this situation.

Instructions: Write a paper that is 2 4 pages in length responding to the following questions. Include your recommendations and reasonable assumptions based on the learning provided in the modules and your research.

1. Preventive Measures:

• As an HR professional, what should you have done initially to prevent this issue from happening?

1. Future Strategies:

• Outline a specific strategy to implement to prevent this from happening in the future.

1. Addressing the Promised Raise:

• What would you do about the 11% pay raise that was already promised to the employee?

1. Union Grievance:

• If the union files a grievance, what type of grievance do you think it would be? Provide reasoning for your answer.

1. Drafting a Response:

• If the union does file a grievance, draft a response to the grievance to share with your upper-level managers as a starting point for discussion on how to remedy the situation.

Tips and Reminders:

• Use course resources to support your arguments, citing all sources in
• Consider the ethical implications of each decision.
• Reflect on the balance between legal compliance and employee morale.
• This assignment will be graded by a grading rubric.

SOurces:

Reading 3.1 –

Doyle, A. (2021, April 6). How the collective bargaining process works. The Balance.

Reading 3.2 –

Rhinehart, L., & McNicholas, C. (2020, May 4). Collective bargaining beyond the worksite: How workers and their unions build power and set standards for their industries. Economic Policy Institute.

Multimedia 3.3 –

GreggU. (2019, April 23). The grievance process [Video]. YouTube.

Reading 3.4 –

LibreTexts. (n.d.). 11.3: Collective bargaining. Department of Education.

Reading 3.5 –

LibreTexts. (n.d.). 11.4: Grievance process. Department of Education.

Reading 3.6 –

Moore, P. (2021, August 5). The basics of union arbitration. Arbitration Agreement.

Reading 3.7 –

The Ohio Civil Service Employees Association. (n.d.). Arbitration decision no. 382.