JUSTICE: Preferential Hiring and the Dualism

Alan E Singer
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Alan E Singer: University of Canterbury, New Zealand

Chapter 19 in Integrating Ethics with Strategy:Selected Papers of Alan E Singer, 2007, pp 346-358 from World Scientific Publishing Co. Pte. Ltd.

Abstract: AbstractThis chapter is an adapted version of “Justice in preferential hiring,” Journal of Business Ethics 10, pp. 91-97, 1991, by M. S. Singer and A. E. Singer. It describes empirical studies of perceptions of preferential selection. Preferential selection is widely perceived as unfair. Indeed, the level of perceived unfairness is directly related to the discrepancy in candidates’ test scores on job-relevant tests. Furthermore, the provision of particular “ethical” or “legislative” justifications for the selection decisions increased the perceived level of unfairness. The question of preferential hiring, far from being an esoteric and annoying HR issue, can be thought of as representative of the larger “strategy versus ethics” question. It is only when people take the time and make the effort to fully contemplate and discuss all the arguments on both sides of the issue that they can reoccupy the centre.

Keywords: Business Ethics; Strategy; Management Science; Corporate Social Responsibility; Poverty; Health; Decision Making; Corporate Governance; Global Business (search for similar items in EconPapers)
Date: 2007
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