Social Responsibility within the Ethics and Human Resource Management Debates: A Review of Global Compact and SA8000 Social Responsibility Standard

Ethical HRM, along with mainstream and critical perspectives of HRM, is seen as a developing perspective. Ethical analysis of HRM may take two forms considering whether HRM is ethical at macro level or HR practices are ethical at micro level. This paper reviews the theoretical perspectives and evaluates social responsibility within the ethics and HRM debates. Within the scope of main perspectives, the ethics of duty, fairness, justice, utility, liberty, virtue and care and within the scope of social responsibility, global compact and SA8000 social responsibility standard are analyzed.