Human Resource Management: Ethics and Employment

360 Pages·2007·2.7 MB·English

Human Resource Management: Ethics and Employment
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Human Resource
Management:
Ethics and
Employment
Editedby
Ashly H. Pinnington
Rob Macklin
Tom Campbell
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(cid:0) ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS
TheeditorswouldliketothanktheCentreforAppliedPhilosophyandPublic
Ethics (CAPPE), (Australian National University, Charles Sturt University,
University of Melbourne), an Australian Research Council Special Research
Centre,whichsponsoredtheworkshoponEthicsandHumanResourceMan-
agementinSydney,April2004.Also,financialsupportwasreceivedfromUQ
Business School, The University of Queensland, for some of the expenses in
developingthisbook.Theworkshop,fromwhichitoriginated,wasadminis-
teredbySheenaSmith,thenaResearchAssistantatCAPPE,whoalsopartici-
patedintheworkshop.Ourthankstothosewhoattendedtheworkshopand
contributed papers, commentaries, and suggestions: David Ardagh (Charles
SturtUniversity),LynneBennington(LaTrobeUniversity),BreenCreighton
(Corrs Chambers Westgarth, Melbourne), Michelle Greenwood (Monash
University),DavidGuest(King’sCollege,London),RobinKramar(Macquarie
University),KarenLegge(WarwickUniversity),GillPalmer(MonashUniver-
sity), Les Pickett (Australian Human Resource Institute), Chris Provis (Uni-
versity of South Australia), Sheena Smith (Australian National University),
Bernadine Van Gramberg (Victoria University of Technology), and Adrian
Walsh (University of New England). Thanks are also due to Karen Legge,
David Guest, and Tony Watson (University of Nottingham) for reviewing
someofthesubsequentdraftchaptersforthebook.
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(cid:0) CONTENTS
ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v
LISTOFFIGURES ix
LISTOFTABLES x
LISTOFCONTRIBUTORS xi
Introduction:ethicalhumanresourcemanagement 1
AshlyPinnington,RobMacklin,andTomCampbell
PARTI SITUATINGHUMANRESOURCEMANAGEMENT
1 Socio-politicaltheoryandethicsinHRM 23
GillPalmer
2 TheethicsofHRMindealingwithindividualemployeeswithoutcollective
representation 35
KarenLegge
3 HRMandperformance:canpartnershipaddresstheethicaldilemmas? 52
DavidE.Guest
4 Strategicmanagementandhumanresources:thepursuitofproductivity,
flexibility,andlegitimacy 66
PeterBoxallandJohnPurcell
5 Ethicalemploymentpracticesandthelaw 81
BreenCreighton
6 HRMandtheethicsofcommodifiedworkinamarketeconomy 102
AdrianJ.Walsh
PARTII ANALYSINGHUMANRESOURCEMANAGEMENT
7 StakeholdertheoryandtheethicsofHRM 119
MichelleGreenwoodandHelenDeCieri
8 HRmanagersasethicsagentsofthestate 137
LynneBennington
9 TheethicalbasisforHRMprofessionalismandcodesofconduct 152
DavidArdagh
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10 Engineersofhumansouls,facelesstechnocrats,ormerchantsof
morality?:changingprofessionalformsandidentitiesinthefaceofthe
neo-liberalchallenge 171
MichaelI.Reed
11 Ethicalleadershipinemployeedevelopment 190
AshlyH.PinningtonandSerkanBayraktaroglu
12 Ethicsandworkinemergencies:theUKfireservicestrike2002–3 209
TomSorell
PARTIII PROGRESSINGHUMANRESOURCEMANAGEMENT
13 HRM,ethicalirrationality,andthelimitsofethicalaction 223
TonyJ.Watson
14 ExpandingethicalstandardsofHRM:necessaryevilsandthemultiple
dimensionsofimpact 237
JoshuaD.Margolis,AdamM.Grant,andAndrewL.Molinsky
15 Strategy,knowledge,appropriation,andethicsinHRM 252
KenKamoche
16 ThemorallydecentHRmanager 266
RobMacklin
Conclusion 282
TomCampbell,AshlyPinnington,RobMacklin,andSheenaSmith
BIBLIOGRAPHY 292
INDEX 328
(cid:0) LIST OF FIGURES
4.1 Threecriticalelementsfortheviabilityofthefirm 68
4.2 CriticalgoalsinHRM:abasicframework 73
7.1 Therelationshipbetweenstake,rights,andresponsibility 125
9.1 Fromhumangoodsandneedstoembodyingsocialarrangements 155