Organizational Paradigms and Human Resource management, for a new Labour Relations Ethics

Abstract

The author looks into the topic of paradigm change within the administrative and organizational theories, from a double perspective: The manager-subordinate relationship, and the problem of goals and means. He claims that it is only possible to think about a real paradigm change, when you have gone beyond the dichotomy between human thought and action, which is implicit in the first perspective, and, when the predominant profit-oriented vision is reexamined, in the second one. According to these points of view, such a follow-up on this set of theories necessarily implies a new ethic standpoint from the enterprise and from Management theory, vis-a-vis the society.