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Professionalising the Human Resource Manager's Function: Benefits and Hazards for Moral Integrity

On a Neo-Aristotelian account, the moral warrant of persons, states, and organisations is given by general ethics, following an account of human nature and human good/needs. The moral claims of these three entities are suspended from this account. Professional organisations are broadly located within a state-welfare-capitalist system in a way that reflects a Neo-Aristotelian ethico-political perspective by reference to the fact that the professional provides some public good/human needsatisfier in a distinctive way. Twenty marks of this way are canvassed drawing on the relevant professional ethics literature. The question is then posed whether Human Resource Management (HRM) is, or might conceivably become, a profession. It is argued that it already meets most of the marks; could be changed to fit all but a few insignificant ones; and that it should be professionalised. Biography: David Ardagh is a Research Fellow within the A.R.C. Special Centre for Applied Philosophy and Public Ethics, and a Senior Lecturer in Human Resource Management at Charles Sturt University, Wagga Wagga, N.S.W. His main current areas of interest are Business Ethics and Conflict Resolution..