Human Resource Management Ethics and Employment

by Pinnington, Ashly; Macklin, Rob; Campbell, Tom

• ISBN13: 9780199203796
• ISBN10: 0199203792
• Format: Paperback
• Copyright: 2007-03-29
• Publisher: Oxford University Press

Summary

The book examines ethics and employment issues in contemporary Human Resource Management (HRM). Written by an international team of academics from universities in the UK, the US, Australia and New Zealand, it examines the problems and opportunities facing employers and employees.

Table of Contents

Acknowledgements	p. v
List of Figures	p. ix
List of Tables	p. x
List of Contributors	p. xi
Introduction: ethical human resource management	p. 1
Situating Human Resource Management
Socio-political theory and ethics in HRM	p. 23
The ethics of HRM in dealing with individual employees without collective representation	p. 35
HRM and performance: can partnership address the ethical dilemmas?	p. 52
Strategic management and human resources: the pursuit of productivity, flexibility, and legitimacy	p. 66
Ethical employment practices and the law	p. 81
HRM and the ethics of commodified work in a market economy	p. 102
Analysing Human Resource Management
Stakeholder theory and the ethics of HRM	p. 119
HR managers as ethics agents of the state	p. 137
The ethical basis for HRM professionalism and codes of conduct	p. 152
Engineers of human souls, faceless technocrats, or merchants of morality?: changing professional forms and identities in the face of the neo-liberal challenge	p. 171
Ethical leadership in employee development	p. 190
Ethics and work in emergencies: the UK fire service strike 2002-3	p. 209
Progressing Human Resource Management
HRM, ethical irrationality, and the limits of ethical action	p. 223
Expanding ethical standards of HRM: necessary evils and the multiple dimensions of impact	p. 237
Strategy, knowledge, appropriation, and ethics in HRM	p. 252
The morally decent HR manager	p. 266
Conclusion	p. 282
Bibliography	p. 292
Index	p. 328
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