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The views of HR practitioners on ethical issues within organisations: A South African perspective

R Wordsworth, BJ Erasmus
South African Journal of Economic and Management Sciences | Vol 9, No 4 | a1031 | DOI: https://doi.org/10.4102/sajems.v9i4.1031 | © 2014 R Wordsworth, BJ Erasmus | This work is licensed under CC Attribution 4.0
Submitted: 10 May 2014 | Published: 22 May 2014

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R Wordsworth, UNISA
BJ Erasmus, UNISA

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This article reports on the results of a survey conducted among human resource practitioners in South Africa regarding their involvement in and experience of business ethics and unethical behaviour in their organisations. The results of the study concur with the theoretical perception that human resource managers have an important role to play in the institutionalisation of good ethical behaviour in the organisation, with the majority of respondents reporting that the human resource department is a primary resource for ethical initiatives and that human resource professionals are involved in the formulation of ethics policies. The article provides some insights in terms of the role of the human resource managers in the management of ethics. In so doing, an attempt is made to address the question of whether human resource managers should be the drivers of ethics initiatives in the organisation.


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