HRM Ethics: Perspectives For a New Millennium identifies the critical ethical issues that Human Resource professionals may face in the first decade of the 21st Century. Gravett describes what an ethical organization looks like; outlines the indicators of a weak ethics system and the resulting damage to productivity and profitability; and explains the Human Resource professional's unique role in building an ethical organization. This text also contains real-world scenarios and potential options to ethically handle common Human Resource Management dilemmas based on interviews with Human Resource practitioners across the United States. Targeted for the graduate-level Human Resources student. It can supplement the survey course in Human Resource Management, or serve as a core text for an Ethics in HRM course.
Synopsis
HRM Ethics: Perspectives For a New Millennium identifies the critical ethical issues that Human Resource professionals may face in the first decade of the 21st Century. Gravett describes what an ethical organization looks like; outlines the indicators of a weak ethics system and the resulting damage to productivity and profitability; and explains the Human Resource professional's unique role in building an ethical organization. This text also contains real-world scenarios and potential options to ethically handle common Human Resource Management dilemmas based on interviews with Human Resource practitioners across the United States. Targeted for the graduate-level Human Resources student. It can supplement the survey course in Human Resource Management, or serve as a core text for an Ethics in HRM course.
About the Author, Linda Gravett
Linda S. Gravett, Ph.D., SPHR is faculty member at Xavier University as part of The Senior Management Certificate Program. Linda has been a consultant and educator in the Human Resources field for 11 years and was a Human Resource Practitioner for 14 years before that. She has consulted for service, manufacturing, public sector, and nonprofit organizations. She is an active speaker and trainer on a variety of topics including Ethical Dilemmas in Human Resources, Measuring the Outcomes of a Diversity Initiative, and Aligning the Diversity Initiative with the Organization's Strategic Plan. Linda is Myers Briggs Type Indicator certified and has used the certification to counsel individuals and groups in career management and teambuilding. She is also a founding partner of two consulting firms: Gravett and Associates and e-HResources.com.
Linda has been involved with the Society for Human Resource Management for 17 years in various leadership capacities, including State Director of Ohio, Area III Diversity Director, and Chair of the National School-to-Work Committee. For two years she served on the Eastern Writing Panel for the Human Resources Certification Institute.
Linda is the 1999 recipient of the Society for Human Resource Management's David Award for Professional Excellence and the 1991 recipient of the National Professional Business Woman's Individual Progress Award. She has been honored with inclusion in Who's Who in the Midwest, Who's Who of Executive Women, and Who's Who of American Women.
