Morality 7: Sustainability and the Natural Environment

Thomas Klikauer
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Thomas Klikauer: University of Western Sydney

Chapter 7 in Seven Moralities of Human Resource Management, 2014, pp 185-209 from Palgrave Macmillan

Abstract: Abstract At stage 7, the ethical rights of stage 6 are extended to issues that appear to be totally useless to HRM because they are located beyond humanity.677 Human rights are applied to a wider holistic context rather than being restricted to humans alone. Ethical awareness embraces forms of life such as animals and ecological systems regardless of their social and corporate utility.678 Animal ethics, for example, sets forth principles for the ethical treatment of animals. The application of these principles contradict HRM rather indirectly as they are seen as an HR support function of the corporate need to turn animals into values by exploiting, misusing, abusing, and eventually killing them. HRM manages those who commit these inhumane acts against animals in Tayloristic and Fordist factory farming and industrial laboratories by applying performance management and KPIs.679 In the deceptiveness of Managerialism’s language this is called ‘utilising nature’.680

Keywords: Moral Responsibility; Human Resource Management; Moral Philosophy; Environmental Ethic; Moral Duty (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2014
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DOI: 10.1057/9781137455789_9

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