- Title
- The role of HRM in developing ethical organisations in the liquor industry
- Creator
- Nuttall, Candice
- Subject
- Business ethics
- Subject
- Organizational behavior -- Moral and ethical aspects Personnel management
- Date Issued
- 2019
- Date
- 2019
- Type
- Thesis
- Type
- Masters
- Type
- MA
- Identifier
- http://hdl.handle.net/10948/42748
- Identifier
- vital:36688
- Description
- Research has shown that ethics is critical to an organisations success, and that the leaders of an organisation give authority to an ethical climate and power to any ethical HRM interventions that are implemented. This empirical study aimed to investigate the role of human resource management (HRM) in developing ethical organisations in the liquor industry. The study had three main objectives. Firstly, to investigate the awareness and importance of ethics in the liquor industry. Secondly to investigate which human resource interventions were being used in the liquor industry to promote ethics and lastly, to propose strategies to assist in establishing and reinforcing an ethical climate in organisations operating in the liquor industry. The research was gathered from the liquor industry quantitatively by adapting the ethics questionnaire developed by Lloyd and Mey (2010, p. 206). Non-probability sampling was used to include 92 sales managers from 13 different organisations located throughout South Africa. Data was analysed qualitatively by using descriptive and inferential statistics. Validity of the research was carefully managed and the reliability of the questionnaire analysed by a statistician. Ethical considerations, as well as the value of the study and its limitations will be included. The results showed that top management was seen as the most important role players in establishing an ethical organisation, and that the human resource department was regarded as most important. However, a significant lack of HRM intervention implementation was observed. Although organisations provided a significant number of interventions, they only had limited effect on the day to day operations. The lack of the creation and establishment of ethics committees and ethically based reward systems were found to be consistently lacking throughout the industry. An implication of this study is that there exists significant scope for the liquor industry to become leaders in the field of ethics. For this to happen top management should openly commit to ethics and ensure that the day to day operational policies and practices reflect the aims of an ethical climate.
- Format
- xiii, 104 leaves
- Format
- Publisher
- Nelson Mandela University
- Publisher
- Faculty of Business and Economic Sciences
- Language
- English
- Rights
- Nelson Mandela University
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