Organizational characteristics and HRM policies on rights: Exploring the patterns of connections

The protection of employee rights in the workplace is one of the fundamental ethical questions facing organizations today. Organizations differ in the extent to which they protect the rights of both employees and themselves as employers, yet little research has examined the types of organizations th...

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Authors: Schwoerer, Catherine E. (Author) ; May, Douglas R. (Author) ; Rosen, Benson (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 1995
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 1995, Volume: 14, Issue: 7, Pages: 531-549
Further subjects:B Ethical Issue
B Human Resource
B Additional Analysis
B Organizational Context
B Economic Growth
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Summary:The protection of employee rights in the workplace is one of the fundamental ethical questions facing organizations today. Organizations differ in the extent to which they protect the rights of both employees and themselves as employers, yet little research has examined the types of organizations that have rights protection policies. Instead of the classic normative approach to ethical issues, this study took a contextual approach to the management of rights in the workplace through human resource policies. Associations were found between the organizational characteristics of size, industry, unionization, business condition, and the existence of employee and employer rights policies. Additional analyses revealed underlying dimensions in right policies and the relationship of organizational characteristics to these aspects of rights management were examined. The results are discussed in terms of understanding human resource rights management within an organizational context.
ISSN:1573-0697
Contains:Enthalten in: Journal of business ethics
Persistent identifiers:DOI: 10.1007/BF00871982