Chapter 12: Human Resources Management and Ethics: A Look to the Future

Today’s and tomorrow’s organizations are coming to realize the bottomline benefits of incorporating ethical behavior into their human resource management (HRM) policies and procedures or in essence it is DNA. It is beneficial for attraction, recruitment, selection and retention and it is the right thing to do. HRM must continue to be a key organizational leader and take the lead or partner with other leaders at all levels to work cross-functionally to integrate ethical behavior into how an organization’s business gets conducted. HRM professionals can act as translators or bridges of the organization’s ethical commitment vertically and horizontally across all levels, units, or departments.