Human Resource Management and Occupational Health and Safety or How Might We Live Global Ethics in the New Century

Human Resource Management and Occupational Health and Safety, Vol. 26

Author: Carol Boyd

Occupational Health and Safety (OHS) is a complex area which interacts widely with a broader spectrum of business interests and concerns. To date OHS has been confined to the periphery of Human Resource Management (HRM), where its role, influence and importance have been overlooked. This text sets out to reposition OHS in HRM and business agendas.
This book unravels the complex range of factors affecting OHS policy, practice and outcomes. These factors are then placed into context within the international airline, call centre and nuclear power industries. The author presents a wide range of primary and secondary research in order to offer an accessible framework for OHS in contemporary occupational settings.
This book will be essential reading for students, practitioners and professional academic audiences who seek a broader understanding of the relationship and interaction between HRM principles, policies and practices and OHS.

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How Might We Live? Global Ethics in the New Century

Author: Ken Booth

This volume looks outward to the new century and to the dynamics of this first truly global age. It asks the fundamental question: how might human societies live? The contributors believe that there is nothing more political than ethics. By exploring in the newest context some of the oldest questions about duties and obligations within and beyond humanly constructed boundaries, the essays help us ponder the most profound question in world politics today: who will the twenty-first century be for?

Table of Contents:

	Notes on Contributors
	Acknowledgements
	Foreword
	Introduction: How Might We Live? Global Ethics in a New Century	1
	Individualism and the Concept of Gaia	29
	Bounded and Cosmopolitan Justice	45
	Globalization From Above: Actualizing The Ideal Through Law	61
	A More Perfect Union? The Liberal Peace and the Challenge of Globalization	81
	International Pluralism and the Rule of Law	95
	Towards a Feminist International Ethics	111
	Contested Globalization: The Changing Context and Normative Challenges	131
	Universalism and Difference in Discourses of Race	155
	Does Cosmopolitan Thinking Have a Future?	179
	Individuals, Communities and Human Rights	199
	Thinking About Civilizations	217
	Index	235