236 PROGRESSING HUMAN RESOURCE MANAGEMENT
Ethically assertive managerial action can only be effective, it has to be
reiterated, at the margins. Efforts to make serious changes in the ethicality
of employment practices, this notwithstanding all the problems of the irra-
tionality of the social world, must come from argument and debate within the
democratic processes of the societies in which HR management operates, not
from within HR itself. Matters of morality, ethics, and the pursuit of the good
life are far too important to leave to HR managers.