Read (ATTACHED) Ch. 2, Incident 2, “Illegal Hiring.” Understanding ethics, the role HR plays in development, support, and holding employees accountable is vital to the overall sustainability of an organization. To be a solid and effective HR professional knowledge of business principles, employment law, and ethics are imperative to the ability to execute in a value-added manner for the organization.

Write a 700- to 1,050-word analysis of the incident, “Illegal Hiring.” Include the following in preparing your response:

• Start with a critical analysis of what took place in the scenario.
• Identify what role HR should play as a strategic business partner in addressing this incident and explain the rationale. (Consider HR principles and employment law points in your response).
• Summarize a recommendation of what should have been done in response to learning about the facts in this incident. (avoid use of first person language in your writing)
• Discuss what factors in this incident might influence a company to make less-than-ethical decisions. (Consider factors that may be personal drivers of the individual and operational/sales type factors)
• Summarize and provide a brief policy that would help an organization like the one in “Illegal Hiring” make sound and legal hiring decisions within the framework of the law and support a culture of diversity and inclusion.

Include a minimum of 3 sources to support your work comprised of the course text and 2 PEER REVIEWED journal articles. Government and professional organization websites are good sources but will be considered as additional sources to the 3 required. Keep in mind that usage of the text must extend beyond merely citing the scenario. 5 Sources total MINIMUM.

For further study: Bingham, C., & Druker, J. (2016). Human resources, ethics and corporate social responsibility: what makes ‘people’count within the organisation’s corporate social responsibility platform?. In CIPD Applied Research Conference 2016: The shifting landscape of work and working lives. Chartered Institute of Personnel and Development.

Format the paper to APA standards. There is a template in the Announcements section to help with proper formatting of the cover page. There is another handout posted in the Announcements section that has the main general rules of APA. (ATTACHED)