behaviour. The contextualized explanation of HR management action directly addresses the question of whether HRM is inherently …. Alternative institutional structures can provide HR managers with a vocabulary of motives for people-centred HRM and widen the … questioning of logics and values. This article aims to contribute to and extend debate on whether HRM can ever be ethical, and …

Human Resource Management (HRM) discourse. We argue that the ethics located within this discourse focuses on bolstering the … relevance of HRM as a key contributor to organizational strategy, enhancing an organization’s sense of moral legitimacy and … augmenting organizational control over employee behaviour and subjectivity. We question this discourse in that it subordinates …

Firm–employee relationships are dependent on the wider societal context and on the role business plays in society … study, we examine mass media discussions about firm–employee relationships from a social responsibility perspective via a … increasingly important talk of human resource management (HRM). HRM is a modern business approach believed to address personnel …