Ethical Standards for Human Resource Management Professionals: A Comparative Analysis of Five Major Codes

Focusing on professional codes of ethics in HR, this article establishes a foundation for understanding the contents of thesecodes and for future research in this area. Five key professionalethics codes in HRM are analyzed according to six obligations.The resulting characterizations revealed that th...

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1. VerfasserIn: Wiley, Carolyn (VerfasserIn)
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Sprache:Englisch
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Veröffentlicht: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2000
In: Journal of business ethics
Jahr: 2000, Band: 25, Heft: 2, Seiten: 93-114
weitere Schlagwörter:B Human Resource
B Comparative Analysis
B Resource Management
B Economic Growth
B Ethical Standard
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Zusammenfassung:Focusing on professional codes of ethics in HR, this article establishes a foundation for understanding the contents of thesecodes and for future research in this area. Five key professionalethics codes in HRM are analyzed according to six obligations.The resulting characterizations revealed that these codes advocatefive principles related to integrity, legality, proficiency, loyalty, and confidentiality. Particular flaws in code content and implementationare identified with recommendations for addressing them. Also,suggestions for standardizing professional HR codes and forfuture research are discussed.
ISSN:1573-0697
Enthält:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1023/A:1006230214847