A Role For HR In Corporate Ethics? South African Practitioners’ Perspectives
SA Journal of Human Resource Management
| Field | Value | |
| Title | A Role For HR In Corporate Ethics? South African Practitioners’ Perspectives | |
| Creator | van Vuuren, L. J. Eiselen, R. J. | |
| Description | Since few South African organisations have as yet appointed ethics officers, there is often a lack of clarity on who should take responsibility for coordinating organisations’ ethics management efforts. The purpose of this paper was to assess HR (the Human Resource function and its practitioners) as a possible contender to assume responsibility for ethics management in SA organisations. To this end a mail survey was conducted among registered HR practitioners (N=410). Two factors related to 1) the extent of HR’s ethics management competence and 2) HR’s responsibility for ethics management, were identified. The results showed that HR practitioners on average believe that they indeed have an ethics management competence and that they should be involved in ethics management. However, practitioners with a great deal of exposure to organisations that manage ethics believe to a lesser extent that they should be involved in ethics management. The implications of the findings are discussed. | |
| Publisher | AOSIS | |
| Date | 2006-11-06 | |
| Identifier | 10.4102/sajhrm.v4i3.95 | |
| Source | SA Journal of Human Resource Management; Vol 4, No 3 (2006) 2071-078X 1683-7584 | |
| Language | eng | |
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