The Employee as ‘Dish of the Day’: The Ethics of the Consuming/Consumed Self in Human Resource Management

This article examines the ethical implications of the growing integration of consumption into the heart of the employment relationship. Human resource management (HRM) practices increasingly draw upon the values and practices of consumption, constructing employees as the ‘consumers’ of ‘cafeteria-st...

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Main Author: Dale, Karen (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer Science + Business Media B. V 2012
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 111, Issue: 1, Pages: 13-24
Further subjects:B Consumption
B Ethics
B Human resource management (HRM)
B Choice
B Levinas
B Autonomy
B Performance
B Identity
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