This article examines the potential for moral agency in human resource management practice. It draws on an ethnographic study of human resource managers in a global organization to provide a theorized account of situated moral agency. This account suggests that within contemporary organizations,...

French Abstract: La liste des publications d’un postulant est un élément-clef dans sa candidature pour un poste académique et un nombre croissant d’emplois dans les facultés de droit et de commerce exige du postulant qu’il ou elle poursuive ou qu’il ou elle ait achevé un doctorat....

Despite being labeled as fearfully radical in its early days, stakeholder theory has grown up to be remarkably conservative. Depicted in its early days as being anti-managerial (an attempt to socialise business), it is increasing criticized as being managerialist (a vehicle for capitalist...

The aims of the research are to explore evidence of professional human resource management (HRM) role tensions, the factors that affect HRM role tension, and to consider the impact on management perceptions when role tensions exist. Using a qualitative approach, 25 interviews were conducted in...