Ethics, Human Rights, and Human Resource Management

Köllen, Thomas; Müller-Camen, Michael (2016). Ethics, Human Rights, and Human Resource Management. In: Stone, John; Dennis, Rutledge M.; Rizova, Polly S.; Smith, Anthony D.; , ; Hou, Xiaoshuo (eds.) The Wiley-Blackwell Encyclopedia of Race, Ethnicity, and Nationalism (pp. 1-3). Hoboken, NJ: Wiley-Blackwell 10.1002/9781118663202.wberen662

Text 9781118663202.wberen662.pdf - Published Version Restricted to registered users only Available under License Publisher holds Copyright. Download (439kB) | Request a copy

Ethical or morally “good” behavior of organizations toward their employees is generally associated with reaching a certain level of equality. A very basic organizational approach to equality is to confer human rights to all employees in equal measure, irrespective of whether there are working for the organization directly or indirectly. A more advanced approach to equality takes into account that, within organizations, minority employees often face different layers and intensities of racist, nationalist, and ethnicity-based processes of marginalization and discrimination (among other things). Within the workforces these processes are responsible for the prevalence of persisting inequalities in terms of organizational status, access to resources, and compensation. Thus organizations that want to overcome these inequalities have to apply human resource management initiatives that counteract these processes. This can be done, for example, through appropriate diversity management initiatives that explicitly integrate race, nationality, and ethnicity as key dimensions of an organizations' workforce diversity.

Interest & Impact

Downloads

2 since deposited on 11 Jun 2018
0 in the past 12 months

Citations

5 Citations in Web of Science ®
6 Citations in Scopus

Search

in Google Scholar™

Services

Actions (login required)

Edit item

Actions (login required)

Edit item