Human Resource Management: Ethics and Employment

CONTENTS

ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS v

LIST OF FIGURES ix

LIST OF TABLES x

LIST OF CONTRIBUTORS xi

Introduction: ethical human resource management 1

Ashly Pinnington, Rob Macklin, and Tom Campbell

PART ISITUATING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

1 Socio-political theory and ethics in HRM 23

Gill Palmer

2 The ethics of HRM in dealing with individual employees without collective

representation 35

Karen Legge

3 HRM and performance: can partnership address the ethical dilemmas? 52

David E. Guest

4 Strategic management and human resources: the pursuit of productivity,

flexibility, and legitimacy 66

Peter Boxall and John Purcell

5 Ethical employment practices and the law 81

Breen Creighton

6 HRM and the ethics of commodified work in a market economy 102

Adrian J. Walsh

PART IIANALYSING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT

7 Stakeholder theory and the ethics of HRM 119

Michelle Greenwood and Helen De Cieri

8 HR managers as ethics agents of the state 137

Lynne Bennington

9 The ethical basis for HRM professionalism and codes of conduct 152

David Ardagh