Ethical employment policies bring mixed results

Ethical employment policies are on the rise, but there is little consensus among HR professionals as to the organisational benefits they bring, finds IRS research.

  • Ethics in employment: bringing corporate responsibility into the workplace   Charlott Wolff presents the findings of the IRS Employment Review research, based on responses from 51 organisations,

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    Corporate accountability   Read the previous IRS research on corporate social responsibility.

    HR can lead on corporate social responsibility   XpertHR presents a wide variety of article links on the Government's CSR Academy.

    Do ethics pay?   Writing in Personnel Today, Adele Kimber reports on the latest evidence of the linkage between corporate ethics and profitability, and profiles successful CSR initiatives at the Co-operative Bank and Safeway.

    Blowing your own credibility    Writing in Personnel Today, Stephen Overell argues that UK companies' commitment to business ethics and principles of corporate social responsibility is often motivated not by altruism, but by self-interest
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    CSR as an opportunity for HR innovation (from Personnel Today)
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    Scheme to train young offenders
    HR must innovate to ensure success of CSR

    IRS Management Review examines 'The ethical business'
    The importance of business ethics
    Investing in the community
    Ethical employment policies
    The environmentally-responsible company
    Supplier relations
    Glossary of terms