Human Resource Management in a Compartmentalized World: Whither Moral Agency?

This article examines the potential for moral agency in human resource management practice. It draws on an ethnographic study of human resource managers in a global organization to provide a theorized account of situated moral agency. This account suggests that within contemporary organizations, ins...

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Main Author: Wilcox, Tracy (Author)
Format: Electronic Article
Language:English
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Published: Springer 2012
In: Journal of business ethics
Year: 2012, Volume: 111, Issue: 1, Pages: 85-96
Further subjects:B Institutional Theory
B Human Resource Management
B Relational spaces
B Relational sociology
B Moral Agency
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