Human Resource Management and Transformative Ethics

Human Resource Management (HRM) has long been recognized as an organizational staff function which has significant ethical implications for employees and organizations. The purpose of this paper is to identify the relationship between HRM and a newly-conceived ethical framework, Transformative Ethics (TE). TE integrates the ethical perspectives of twelve widely-accepted ethical viewpoints. The paper identifies how six strategic roles of HRM reflect the respective ethical perspectives that make up TE and identifies four significant contributions that highly ethical HRM makes to organizational and interpersonal effectiveness.