Proceedings of the International Association for Business and Society

Volume 4, 1993

Proceedings of the Fourth Annual Meeting

Personal Information, Ethics and the Human Resource Manager
The Case of HIV/AIDS

The collection of HIV/AIDS status about employees is a dramatic example of personal information and is used in this discussion of ethics and the Human Resource Manager. Specifically, privacy, confidentiality, the right to know and informed consent are examined. It is argued that a comprehensive HIV/AIDS policy would overcome the need for organisations to collect such information, and suggested that Human Resource Managers place more importance on ethics when making decisions.