Morality 1: Disciplinary Action, Obedience, and Punishment

Thomas Klikauer
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Thomas Klikauer: University of Western Sydney

Chapter 1 in Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management, 2014, pp 44-68 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract Stage 1 of the seven stage model indicates the lowest level of morality. It concerns obedience and punishment. As such it is intimately linked to a rather negative side of the human experience.138 At this stage, human behaviour features obedience to authority and submission to punishment regimes, including the fear of punishment (MacKinnon 2013:158). This fear persists in many societies despite advances in criminology in the form of a move away from punishment and towards reforming people. A factual decline in crime rates, however, has been paralleled by an increase in crime reporting by corporate mass media. This leads to the popular view punishment is important in society.139 The world of HRM is not isolated from these developments and punishment regimes are still prevalent in the form of punitive HR policies such as disciplinary action.140 Under such regimes, HRM does not view individuals as human beings but as underlings, subordinates, and objects of HR power.141 They are perceived to be in need of domestication as outlined in McGregor’s Theory X.142

Keywords: Moral Responsibility; Human Resource Management; Moral Philosophy; Moral Disengagement; Disciplinary Action (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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