Human Resource Management Ethics and Employment
by Pinnington, Ashly; Macklin, Rob; Campbell, TomFormat: Paperback
Pub. Date: 2007-03-29
Publisher(s): Oxford University Press
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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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