İş Ahlakı Dergisi Turkish Journal of Business Ethics, Kasım November 2012, Cilt Volume 5, Sayı Issue 10, s. pp. 41-53, © İGİAD Abstract: Ethical HRM, along with mainstream and critical perspectives of HRM, is seen as a developing perspective. Ethical analysis of HRM may take two forms considering whether HRM is ethical at macro level or HR practices are ethical at micro level. This paper reviews the theoretical perspectives and evaluates social responsibility within the ethics and HRM debates. Within the scope of main perspectives, the ethics of duty, fairness, justice, utility, liberty, virtue and care and within the scope of social responsibility, global compact and SA8000 social responsibility standard are analyzed. Key Words: Ethics, Business Ethics, Unethical Behavior, HR Department. Sevgi Dönmez Maç * , Şuayyip Çalış ** Social Responsibility within the Ethics and Human Resource Management Debates: A Review of Global Compact and SA8000 Social Responsibility Standard Ethics is described as practices of deining the reasons of right and wrong and moral studies (Bayrak Kök, 2012, p. 60). Business ethics, as the sub- set of ethics, reviews the ethical problems of business world and aims to develop rules to guide these behaviors (Ferrell & Fraedrich, 1994, p. 6). he incorporation of ethical analyses into human resource management (HRM) and industrial relations provides the framework for analyses and by reasoning the process of handling ethical issues it may make contribution for becoming better professionals (Solomon, 1992, p. 4). his study aims to evaluate the ethical perspectives to HRM and social responsibility within the ethics and HRM debates. Basically, the study reviews the theoretical perspectives of HRM. In this context, basic * Ph.D. Candidate, at the department of Labour Economics and Industrial Relations. Her research interests include social responsibility, human resource management and labour relations. Correspondence: Sakarya University, Faculty of Business, Esentepe Campus, 54187 Sakarya, Turkey. § E-mail: smac@sakarya.edu.tr, § Phone: +90 264 295 6222 § Fax: +90 264 295 5454. ** Ph.D., is currently an associate professor at the department of Human Resource Management at Sakarya University. His research interests include labour relations and human resource management. Correspondence: Sakarya University, Faculty of Business, Esentepe Campus, 54187 Sakarya, Turkey. § E-mail: scalis@sakarya.edu.tr § Phone: +90 264 295 6310 § Fax: +90 264 295 5454.