MHRM 304Ethics,Inclusion & Labor Law

This course introduces students to the key concepts and approaches foundational to unpacking ethical and legal challenges in human resource management. Students will explore how to make HR-related decisions while keeping in mind the legal and ethical imperatives. In the first part of the course, students will be introduced to analytic tools useful to exploring ethical issues from three perspectives: managerial, social justice, and critical-feminist. Both the business and the moral case for engaging in “ethical” HRM strategies and decision-making will be considered, while simultaneously taking into consideration local, and often harsh, geopolitical forces and business markets. The course also provides a space to reflect about the appropriate inclusive HRM policies and practices, and how to build an argumentation for inclusive HR practices rooted from a managerial, social justice, and critical feminist perspective. The course adopts the Harvard case method and is highly interactive. Students are expected to read and prepare the case studies on a weekly basis. In the second part of the course, students will be exposed to the philosophy behind labor laws and will focus on the Lebanese labor law and work conditions.