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    Beyond Coercion: Moral Assessment in the Labour Market
    Journal of Business Ethics 142 (1): 59-70. 2017.
    Some libertarians argue that informed consent alone makes transactions in the labour market morally justified. In contrast, some of their critics claim that such an act of consent is no guarantee against coercion. To know whether agreements are voluntary, we need to assess the quality of the offers or the prevailing background conditions. ISCT theorists argue that it is imperative to take social norms into account when evaluating the labour market. We present a novel framework for moral assessme…Read more
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    Essay I analyses a sample of corporate codes in the Swedish banking sector. The purpose is to investigate the codes’ ethical status. Are they consistent with the values of fairness or are they instead at a risk of harming the employees? With regard to employees, eight of the nine codes in the material were found to focus one-sidedly on their duties and responsibilities, lack statements regarding their value to the firm, while carefully stating the importance of several other stakeholders, have a…Read more
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    Codes of ethics in the light of fairness and harm
    Business Ethics: A European Review 22 (2): 174-188. 2013.
    Nine codes of ethics from companies in the Swedish financial sector were subjected to a content analysis to determine how they address and treat employees. The codes say a great deal about employee conduct and misconduct but next to nothing about employee rights, their rightful expectations or their value to the firm. The normative analysis – echoing some of the value-based HRM literature – draws on the foundational values of respect, equality, reciprocity and care. The analysis shows that most …Read more