A Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) expert , Gianni Zappala of Orfeus Research, has published a research paper, "Corporate Citizenship and Human Resource Management" for ACIRRT
In the paper, Zappala argues that the Human Resource Management function in top Australian companies is failing to play a signifcant tole in their organisation's CSR effots and are not helping to realise the employee related benefits of these programs. Four possible reasons are advanced for this failure by HRM practioners:
- the marginal role of ethics and stakeholder approaches to HRM
- The view among HR professionals that corporate citizenship is just another management fad
- The growing importance and role of corporate and public affairs function in companies
- The changing roles of the HRM function in companies and in particular the meaning of 'strategic HRM'
This is all thought-proving stuff and the paper also provides plenty of insights about what is happening in Australian companies in these areas.
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