Sakarya Üniversitesi İşletme Enstitüsü Dergisi

Yazarlar: Sevgi DÖNMEZ MAÇ, Onur METİN, Şule AYDIN TURAN, Semih OKUTAN

Konular:İşletme

Anahtar Kelimeler:Ethics,HRM,Education,Critical HRM

Özet: This study aims to discuss whether HR education could be a source for empowering HR professionals to overcome unethical behaviors and ethical dilemmas.  Accordingly, in the paper, first of all, the unethical behaviors and ethical dilemmas that the HR professionals may encounter are outlined. After that, HR education, for more humanistic workplace development, is discussed conceptually. Thirdly, the current perspective of the undergraduate’s level of HR education and the national occupational standards prepared by the Vocational Qualifications Authority regarding HR-related professions are examined in terms of mainstream and ethical/critical HR approaches. Finally, the contribution of ethical HR education for a more balanced perspective on working life is discussed. Content analysis is used for the evaluation of the curriculum of the HR departments in higher education institutions, and the occupational standards.  The findings of the study reveal that both the private sector’s expectations and HR education are highly in line with the mainstream perspective of HR. The findings are significant in terms of showing that the HR practitioners at present have a dominantly unitarist perspective, and their expectations from the HR-related occupations’ practitioners have clearly managerialist and unitarist tendencies. The orientations of higher education programs, on the other hand, are in the same direction to a large extent. In the context of the findings, in conclusion, it is suggested that the HR education for a more humanistic and balanced working life, even if in the long-term, may be redesigned in an ethically and critically strengthened, and strategically and morally balanced manner.

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