Human Resources Management and Ethics: Responsibilities, Actions, Issues, and Experiences, explores and provides an in-depth look at the responsibilities, actions, issues and experiences related to HRM and ethics for individual employees, organizations and the broader society. Like other departments in the broader organization HRM professionals will need to increasingly demonstrate how they contribute to an organization’s ethical orientation and overall performance or success. While the ethical challenges, trends, and issues impacting employees, organizations and HRM professionals will continue to change over the years (consider the recent ethical challenges related cybersecurity and data breaches) the bottom-line of organization success is the clear reality that doing the right thing or institutionalizing an ethical culture or character is just as important to various stakeholders. The chapters in this book provide an updated, current and future look at the relationship between HRM and ethics and across various sectors or organizations (i.e. public, private, not-for-profit, academic, etc.). That is, this book discusses the ever evolving role of HRM professionals to include discussion of how the profession continues to take on more responsibility for developing and institutionalizing an ethical culture in their organizations, industries and the broader society. The book also contributes to the need for ongoing dialogue, discussion or insights offered by HRM experts on what HRM professionals and their organizations can do in the face of ethical expectations, challenges and scandals. In the end, the book is intended to increase our understanding of the ethical responsibilities, actions, issues and experiences that arise both within HRM and in HRM’s interactions with individuals and organizations.

HRM ethics is a root cause of many important problems in business ethics, and may represent the solution to even more. This volume defines, analyzes, and proposes solutions to ethical problems related to both the executive levels of the organization, and the organization as a whole. This book contains a fascinating range of scholarship from highly regarded authors. Macro and micro perspectives are presented, including perspectives from psychology, social psychology, organizational behavior, strategy, law, spirituality, critical studies, public/nonprofit management, and a variety of functional areas within the field of HRM.

Moral philosophy, business ethics, and the employment relationship / John W. Budd and James G. Scoville -- The social welfare objectives and ethical principles of industrial relations / Bruce E. Kaufman -- Kantian ethical thought / Norman E. Bowie -- Non-western ethical frameworks: implications for human resources and industrial relations / James G. Scoville, John J. Lawler, and Xiang Yi -- Globalization and business ethics in employment relations / Hoyt N. Wheeler -- The technological assault on ethics in the modern workplace / Richard S. Rosenberg -- The ethics of human resource management / Elizabeth D. Scott -- Ethical challenges in labor relations / John T. Delaney -- Ethical practice in a corporation: the Allina case / Jonathan E. Booth, Ronald S. Heinz, and Michael W. Howe -- Ethical practice in a labor union: the UAW case / Linda Ewing -- The critical failure of workplace ethics / Gordon Lafer.

Essay from the year 2002 in the subject Sociology - Work, Profession, Education, Organisation, grade: Grade A, University of Manchester (Institute for Development Policy and Management), language: English, abstract: The academic debate on business ethics mainly concentrates on the social and ecological responsibility of companies within the society. Ethics are being regarded as crucial in the external self-presentation and public perception of (economic) organisations. The model of 'enlightened selfinterest' of business claims that only those companies can be economically successful which manage to convince their stakeholders of their moral integrity. According to the model, the implementation of ethical standards lies in the self-interest of companies. As some authors state in recent publications, ethics also become more and more an internal concern of organisations. Whereas formerly the interests of employees were ignored or only regarded as one of several stakeholders' interests, the ethical management of employees itself gains in significance. Especially human resource management (HRM) plays a decisive role in introducing and implementing ethics. The essay outlines some aspects of ethics in HRM. It sketches ethical concerns that emerged in recent HRM debates, and reflects the viewpoint that ethics should be a pivotal issue for HR specialists. A number of ethical frameworks and their application in HRM policies and practices are reviewed. Here, the focus is mainly on barriers and obstacles to introducing ethical standards in HRM activities. Finally, some first steps to putting ethics into HRM practice are outlined.

HRM Ethics: Perspectives For a New Millennium identifies the critical ethical issues that Human Resource professionals may face in the first decade of the 21st Century. Gravett describes what an ethical organization looks like; outlines the indicators of a weak ethics system and the resulting damage to productivity and profitability; and explains the Human Resource professional?s unique role in building an ethical organization. This text also contains real-world scenarios and potential options to ethically handle common Human Resource Management dilemmas based on interviews with Human Resource practitioners across the United States. Targeted for the graduate-level Human Resources student. It can supplement the survey course in Human Resource Management, or serve as a core text for an Ethics in HRM course. HRM Ethics: Perspectives For a New Millennium identifies the critical ethical issues that Human Resource professionals may face in the first decade of the 21st Century. Gravett describes what an ethical organization looks like; outlines the indicators of a weak ethics system and the resulting damage to productivity and profitability; and explains the Human Resource professional?s unique role in building an ethical organization. This text also contains real-world scenarios and potential options to ethically handle common Human Resource Management dilemmas based on interviews with Human Resource practitioners across the United States. Targeted for the graduate-level Human Resources student. It can supplement the survey course in Human Resource Management, or serve as a core text for an Ethics in HRM course.

There are many books about HRM and many about ethics but none which take these issues together as the focus. Covering the subject of HR in a rigorous and comprehensive way using ethical frameworks, the book also looks at areas of ethical concern in current trends and practice, as well as examples and methods for promoting good practice. A timely contribution to the current gap in HRM literature.