Personnel Review: Volume 25 Issue 6

Business ethics and human resource management: Themes and issues

Diana Winstanley, Jean Woodall, Edmund Heery

Reports on the conference on Ethical Issues in Contemporary Human Resource Management, held in April 1996. Notes concerns raised at the conference relating to a lowering of…

Trusting me, trusting you? The ethics of employee empowerment

Tim Claydon, Mike Doyle

Argues that the claims of empowerment to offer “win‐win” outcomes for organizations and their employees involve the elision of conflicting ethical frames of reference which in…

Managing culture change: can it ever be ethical?

Jean Woodall

Considers corporate culture management as an area where ethical concern and analysis has been weak. Examines justification of corporate culture management as an essential…

The empty company: morality and job security

Richard C. Warren

Criticizes Handy’s depiction of the portfolio career and the end of job security because he is overly dismissive of the contribution job security can and does make to the moral…

Risk, representation and the new pay

Edmund Heery

Considers the ethics of the “new pay”, a prescriptive model of pay management which has exercised increasing influence over reward practice in recent years. Makes two primary…

Policing performance: the ethics of performance management

Diana Winstanley, Kate Stuart‐Smith

Challenges traditional models and approaches to performance management and presents an alternative methodology for developing performance objectives and managing performance…

Review article: An introduction to business ethics for human resource management teaching and research

Edward Kingsley Trezise

Provides a guide to the works of authors in the field of business ethics for those contemplating incorporating this into human resource management teaching. Considers the…