The article continues as follows: The second section examines how 'the human' has often been overlooked in academic HRM, focusing on ontological and methodological issues. The key term here is 'in his image'. The idea that human beings are created imago Dei, in the image of God, appears in the creation story of the Hebrew Bible (Genesis 1:27) and has been extremely important to Christian theology and derivative. post-Christian traditions of human worth and human rights (Marshall, 2001).
Methods: Seeing the human in critical HRM
As the theoretical section above argues, the insights of black theology have a much broader meaning. These are used to structure the essential findings presented in the next part of the article.
Findings
Return from maternity leave
She was tight-lipped about the award: “The application said we did x and y for women going back to work. However, after returning part-time, this was never mentioned and she was not given any classes in her favorite subject.
Casualisation of academic labour
Jasmine has one foot in the academic world of research and teaching, and one in the clinical world of the NHS. Ontologically, rather than viewing workers as means to an end or as ends in themselves, they are viewed as beings made in the image of God and thus entitled to dignified treatment as such beings.
Conclusion
The Development of Human Resource Management in MNCs from BRICS Nations: A Review and Future Research Agenda. The romance of human resource management and business performance and the case for great science.
Racial capitalism, ruling elite business entanglement and the impasse of
1 DSI/NRF SARChI Chair in Industrial Development, College of Business and Economics, University of Johannesburg, South Africa.
- Introduction
- Epistemic violence and racial capitalism as a dual framework for understanding the BEE impasse
- Broad-based BEE strategy and its implementation
- BEE under the twin lenses of racial capitalism and epistemic violence
- Afrocentricity as a pathway to empowerment
- Concluding observations
Due to the partial erasure of their ancestral epistemic system (Spivak, 1983) and the colonial invalidation of their human identity, the new black elites based their politics of empowerment on their desire to become like their colonizers and to enjoy the same privileges they had previously been denied. simply because of their non-whiteness (Fanon, 1961). Discriminatory epistemic violence is primarily transmitted through the dehumanization of the target group, which is to be reified for subjugation and exploitation (Young, 1990; Modiri, 2015). Admittedly, broad-based empowerment has also been hampered by low levels of startup capital in the black business community.
To understand the low effectiveness of post-apartheid governments in enacting redistributive justice, it is useful to adopt the two analytical lenses reviewed above: epistemic violence and racial capitalism. Within the context of the epistemic erasure of Africans for more than 350 years, South Africa's white-dominated private sector resorting to racial capitalism has made meaningful progress in race relations impossible. 14 Testimonial epistemic violence is closely related to discriminatory epistemic violence because it is often rooted in the assumption that the Western way of knowing is the only validating benchmark based on rationality and the legacy of the Enlightenment.
This article builds on the content of the paper 'The impasse of black economic empowerment in South Africa: a view through the lenses of postcolonial epistemic violence and racial capitalism', which I contributed as chapter 3 in the book Paradise Lost: Race and Racism in Post-apartheid South Africa, published by Koninklijke Brill (Leiden), edited by G.
Occupational health and safety in small businesses: The rationale
- International and national OHS context
- Small business sustainability
- Beyond legal compliance
- Cost of OHS incidents in the workplace
- Legal, financial and moral rationales for OHS compliance
- Compensation Fund
- Research method
- Results and discussion
- Managerial implications
- Conclusion
OHS has been identified as one of the operational mechanisms that can be used in small business management (Robinson & Jonker, 2017: 78), recognizing the organizational context as a direct influencer of behavior (Constantinescu & Kaptein, 2019b: 122) . Owners (who own, control, and operate the small business) and managers (who plan, organize, direct, and control employees to achieve business objectives) of small businesses were included in this study. Reporting to the Schadefonds in order to limit the (financial) consequences of occupational health and safety incidents is therefore very important for small entrepreneurs.
The legal and financial aspects associated with non-compliance with occupational health and safety standards can be more damaging to small businesses (Cunningham & Sinclair therefore small business owners). Small business owners/managers should ensure relevant guidelines and standards are identified as applicable to their small businesses. An overview of key occupational health and safety criteria for small businesses in the G20 countries formed the basis for this survey, while South African small business owners and managers as respondents to this survey provided a unique perspective on occupational health and safety in the South -African context.
The role of intermediaries in the implementation of an occupational health and safety program aimed at small businesses: a case study of an insurance incentive program in the agricultural sector.
Towards an understanding of corporate (dis)engagement with
- Theoretical framework
- Research methodology
- Findings
- Conclusions
Based on this landscape, this study undertook an exploration of factors that impact corporate (dis)engagement with social justice advocacy. In the findings section, an explanation emerges of the intersectional factors that inhibit corporate engagement in social justice advocacy. To investigate factors that influence corporate (dis)involvement in social justice advocacy in South Africa.
Six interrelated data themes were identified as factors that negatively impact corporate engagement with social justice advocacy. The company lacks knowledge of systemic development practices such as social justice advocacy; using CSI interventions. The key findings of this study identified six interrelated factors that together act as inhibitors of corporate engagement with social justice advocacy.
The meta-findings acknowledge that there are inherent tensions around the engagement of CSR with concepts of social justice.
Perspectives on business ethics in South African
Literature review
In the academic world, the concept of business ethics is often combined with Corporate Social Responsibility (CRS). A better understanding of this concept is to understand how business ethics is perceived (in practice) in relation to how it is defined (academic). However, there seems to be little research on how business ethics is conceptualized or defined in practice.
From the literature and the practical perceptions and perspectives of business ethics, a few key concepts are evident in how business ethics is perceived. However, there is limited literature on the perception of business ethics in SMEs, and how business ethics are defined, perceived and applied in this context. An interesting observation in the definition of business ethics is seen in the identification of the complex concepts.
The primary focus was on how SME owners perceive business ethics or the role of ethics in relation to stakeholders.
Research method and design
Compared to broader perceptions of business ethics, moral reflections, quality and doing what is right were identified in the literature but not explicitly identified in empirical findings for South African SMEs (Vivier, 2013 ; Wiid et al., 2014). According to Saunders et al. 2016), using these two approaches in combination to develop theory is possible and advantageous. The Delphi technique is ideal when investigating complex issues (such as business ethics) and allows the researcher to benefit from expert knowledge (Fefer et al., 2016).
This is within the parameters of the Delphi technique and the required panel size (Sobaih et al., 2012). Through 'in vivo' coding (50 in vivo codes), open coding and research notes, specific codes emerged and were recorded in the research notebook (Babbie, 2016; Saunders et al., 2016; Sekayi & Kennedy, 2017). Practice statements associated with specific entities were reworded to present participants with a generic group statement (Babbie, 2016; Saunders et al., 2016; Sekayi & Kennedy, 2017).
Perspectives on business ethics in South African SMEs. a customer or employee) positive perception of another (a business leader or the company) as ethical, competent, honest and benevolent (Pučėtaitė et al., 2010; Pučėtaitė et al., 2015).
Empirical findings
Business ethics means behaving responsibly towards other stakeholders (for example, our employees, customers and suppliers). Always do the right thing by providing the best quality products, services, processes and technology in the industry. For example, one might argue that doing the right thing is also about maintaining integrity, and being honest also means being transparent.
"Doing the right thing" or "doing the right things" seems to be an integral part of the business ethics view. Our suggestion is that "doing the right thing" is a very broad topic and includes both internal and external issues. For example, being honest or behaving responsibly towards the planet can be seen as doing the right thing.
One respondent mentioned that (among other things) transparency is the basis of the entity's culture and business ethics.
Discussion
A business ethics framework could help SMEs better understand business ethics in their companies, help with business ethics communication or design business ethics training – for owner/managers and non-managers. The relational basis of business ethics in SMEs is evident in SMEs, which is also an integral part of the characteristics of SMEs. Quality is also a newly identified element in the perception of business ethics in South African SMEs.
Research could examine how quality is determined, defined or measured in the context of business ethics in South African SMEs. The findings of this study did not explicitly support the view of business ethics involving a gut feeling, as well as the responsibility and responding to good causes related to humanity, community, environment and government, as emphasized by the broader perspectives on business ethics (Table 1). It is perhaps within this dimension of business ethics that the dividing lines between business ethics and CSR overlap.
That's why we find business ethics in SMBs to be generally informal, with no formal policies or documentation in place.
Conclusions and future recommendations
The contribution of this study adds to the current limited understanding of attitudes to business ethics within the South African context, especially smaller SMEs. The findings confirm the broad and narrow definitions of business ethics of Schwartz and Carroll (2008). Research could also examine the apparent differences regarding the view of business ethics purely in companies versus the view of business ethics vis-à-vis other parties.
Future research could examine how business ethics are communicated or maintained in the SME workplace and/or communicated to internal and external parties. Future research could also broaden this study to include a larger sample or focus on the size of the entity (for example, micro-enterprises) to investigate differences related to the views regarding business ethics. Consumer perceptions of retail business ethics and loyalty to the retailer: The moderating role of social discounting practices.
A study of attitudes towards business ethics and corporate social responsibility of local and immigrant SME owners in South Africa.
African Journal of BUSINESS ETHICS
