Ethics and HRM

A Review and Conceptual Analysis

REPORTER FHRIETZL JIEN LIBOA AUTHOR MICHELLE GREENWOOD
 Underlying Issues, Relevance and
Major Ideas and Value Contribution
Concepts

CONTENTS
Professional Opinion Implication to
Philippine Settings
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Underlying Issues, Major Ideas and Concepts

Underlying Issues, Major Ideas and Concepts

HRM involves the effective

management of people to
achieve organizational
goals. The word
“management” is in this
context a euphemism for
“use”
Underlying Issues, Major Ideas and Concepts

RUBRIC OF RESPECT

Right to Right to Right to

Freedom Well Being Equality
Underlying Issues, Major Ideas and Concepts
HARD HRM
Explicitly presents
workers as a key resource
for managers to exploit,
thus reflecting the
capitalist view of the
worker as a commodity.
SOFT HRM
It views objects as a
means rather than objects.
Focus is on winning the
“hearts and minds” of the
worker.
Underlying Issues, Major Ideas and Concepts
It offers the criterion of
producing the greatest good
for the greatest number of
people.
It is commonly understood as
being nothing more than a
minimalist or managerialist
argument in support of the
“business care”
UTILITARIANISM
One must “act in such a way
that you always treat humanity.
Whether in your own person
or in the person of another,
never simply as a means, but
always at the same time.
KANTIANISM
People are “self-originating
sources of valid claims” and that
they matter from a moral point
of view because they are “ends
in themselves”
To treat a person as end-in-
themselves is to provide them
with some of the end-things
needed for their sustenance and
well being
RAWL’S THEORY OF
JUSTICE
Underlying Issues, Major Ideas and Concepts

UTILITARIANISM

Three significant problems with HRM and this ethical theory:

01 The problem of identifying outcomes

02 The question of who is affected

03 The issue of determining the interests of others

Underlying Issues, Major Ideas and Concepts

KANTIANISM

“ Meaningful work is work that is freely entered into,

that provides a wage sufficient for physical welfare,
that supports the moral development of employees
and that is not paternalistic in the sense of
interfering with the worker’s conception of how she
wishes to obtain happiness. ”
Bowie, 1998
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RAWL’S THEORY OF JUSTICE

“ The doctrine of Utilitarianism is irrational because

it is in total contradiction with the fact that in

”
individual liberties are fundamental to a just society.
Rawls, 1972
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Relevance and Value Contribution

Relevance and Value Contribution

The organization must It is believe that market claim profits

01 recognize the existence of
employees’ interests and goals
02 in the name of stakeholders and
unless they have protocols, standards
and procedure the same will develop
into a demon monopolizing markets
and crushing human capital.

The strategic focus of HRM, which

03 they are primarily concerned with
those who are in higher
management.
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The critical perspective sees

05
04
The Institutional Theory sees
organizations as social entities which
conform to attain legitimacy, whilst
resource dependence/power mode
suggests that organizations and group
gain power over each other by
controlling valued resources.
06
HRM as rhetorical and
manipulative, and thus, as a tool
of management to control the
workers.
HRM practices are a way of
intervening in an employee’s life
in order to get employees to
sacrifice more of them selves to
the needs of the organization
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Professional Opinion
Professional Opinion

People should accept the ideas that an

“ individual or organization must treat
individuals with respect, and that an
individual or organization does not have
the right to interfere with the freedom
of an individual ”
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Implication to Philippine Settings
Implication to Philippine Settings

There isn’t a work-life balance which

every employee craves for. So what is
lacking is communication. Since one
of the most common issue is with the
Management. HR and its practices
should provide an avenue for both
parties.

Employment issues. The hiring process,

no equal opportunity for everyone
because of how connections work.

Employees are not paid properly well,

especially here in the PH.
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