Douglas M. McCabe

Global Labor and Worksite Standards: A Strategic Ethical Analysis of Shareholder Employee Relations Resolutions

The purpose of this paper is to analyze from a strategic ethical perspective four selected shareholder resolutions reported by the Social Issues Service of the Investor Responsibility Research Center regarding international labor and workplace standards. Particular attention will be paid to specific employee relations issues at the operating and tactical level of individual multinational firms. The paper concludes with policy recommendations for proxy statements.

Alternative Dispute Resolution and Employee Voice in Nonunion Employment: An Ethical Analysis of Organizational Due Process Procedures and Mechanisms -- The Case of the United States

The purpose of this paper is to integrate and analyze the research findings of previous studies dealing both directly and tangentially with the strategic ethical issues involved in alternative dispute resolution procedures and systems found in nonunion employment. Particular attention will be given to one of the most significant issues in this area at the operating and tactical level of individual companies: the procedural techniques with respect to the processing of the complaints and grievances of employees in nonunion companies and firms. The paper concludes with policy recommendations for managers and recommendations for future research.

Administering the Employment Relationship: The Ethics of Conflict Resolution in Relation to Justice in the Workplace

The purpose of this paper is to provide a historical overview of the ethical concept of organizational due process in relation to contemporary issues in the utilization of company grievance procedures in the rapidly growing nonunion arena. Another objective of this paper is to appraise the current practices that employers have evolved for resolving issues generated by grievances, particularly those of professional, white collar employees.

Ethics and Values in Nonunion Employment Arbitration:A Historical Study of Organizational Due Processin the Private Sector

This paper provides a historical overview of the interrelationship between the use of nonunion employment arbitration and the ethics of employee organizational due process. Key research questions to be explored include the following, among others: Why are expectations about due process in organizations increasing? How are these expectations being exhibited? What is the nature of fair treatment of employees in relation to nonunion employment arbitration? Should arbitration in the nonunion employment relationship be nurtured? A final objective of this paper is to study some of the current initiatives that neutral agencies have adopted to ensure that nonunion arbitration is fair, just, and equitable for a firms employees.

Business Ethics in Transitional Economies: Introduction

This paper introduces the special issue of papers selected from those presented at the International Conference on Business Ethics in Transitional Economies, held March 20–22, 2002 in Celakovice and Prague, Czech Republic. A brief background on the conference is given, and a summary of the papers offered in this special issue is provided.

Introduction to The Special Issue on International Management

17, No. 5), the Journal of Business Ethics undertook a division of labour reflecting the current expansion and development of the whole field as well as likely progress in the future. Four new Associate Editors were appointed in various fields. At that time, I was appointed as Associate/Section Editor for International Management. It was the intention of the Editor-in-Chief to publish at least one issue of the Journal on a timely basis devoted to each of the four areas. While all manuscripts submitted to the Journal would be routinely sent to the Journals Editorial Office at Kluwer Academic Publishers in the Netherlands, some of these would be forwarded to the Associate Editors for consideration for their special issues. Thus, special issues would contain articles submitted to the Journal and subsequently targeted for a particular issue in one of the four areas. My Call For Papers in the field of International Management was stated in the following paragraph: