WEAVER, Gary R <br/><br/>
The role of human resources in ethics/compliance management a fairness perspective 

 -  2001 
<br/><br/> Many large corporations now have formal programs for managing ethical behavior and legal compliance. But the often minor role of human resources (HR) in companies` ethics management efforts is problematic. This is because ethics management efforts are likely to raise questions of fairness, and trigger a fairness heuristic among employees that can generate important outcomes for the ethics program specifically and the organization generally. Relying on research of fainess in organizations and corporate ethics practices, we explain why the extensive involvement of HR in corporate ethics programs is important to the preceived fairness, and thus the likely outcomes (e.g., employee commitment), of those programs 
<br/><br/><label>Subjects--Topical Terms: </label><br/>Ethics Management<br/>Human Resources<br/>Ethical Behavior