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Ethical Analyses of HRM: A Review and Research Agenda
Michelle Greenwood Received: 7 December 2011 / Accepted: 9 May
2012 / Published online: 24 May 2012
[1] Springer Science+Business Media B.V. 2012 Abstract The very
idea of human resource management
raises ethical considerations: What does it mean to us as
humans for human beings to be managed as resources?
Intriguingly, the field of ethics and HRM remains underdeveloped.
Current approaches to HRM fail to place ethical
considerations as their central warrant. This article, building on
Greenwood (J Bus Ethics 36(3):261–279, 2002),
argues for a deeper analysis of ethical issues in HRM,
indeed for a differentiated ethical perspective of HRM that
sets normative deliberations as its prime task. By identifying a distinct
ethical approach to HRM that is
unashamedly normative and socio-politically embedded,
two objectives can be achieved. First, mainstream and
critical approaches will be challenged to take ethical issues
in HRM more seriously. Second, a dedicated forwardlooking research
agenda for the ethical analysis of HRM
will be advanced.