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The moral responsibility of people managers

Victoria Dmochowski

"All people managers have a responsibility to look after their staff. This is not just a financial or performance responsibility - this is a moral responsibility, it's part of being a human." says Tony Vickers-Byrne in TV interview: bit.ly/2SVLh9a 

If people tend to be promoted into management roles because they're expert in their field rather than experts in managing people, are we expecting them to do too much safeguarding of people?

Does your organisation train line managers on how to manage people or does HR tend to step in when things go wrong? What does support for transitioning into management roles look like?

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  • Any discussion about limited liability companies is while interesting, surely focusing on the legal responsibilities of an organisation. That status has little real relevance (imo) on the moral responsibilities as for these these can’t be defined by statute.

    The original quote was about people managers not HR departments. I see no conflict at all with most reasonable socio economic models to say that those who manage people have some moral responsibilities towards those they manage. Whilst some seek to exploit their employees we rightly frown on these ( and the hullabaloo over SportsDirect last year showed this) suggesting that at some level most of us accept there is a moral dimension as well as a purely legal one. The difficulty is of course where you draw this line.
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  • Any discussion about limited liability companies is while interesting, surely focusing on the legal responsibilities of an organisation. That status has little real relevance (imo) on the moral responsibilities as for these these can’t be defined by statute.

    The original quote was about people managers not HR departments. I see no conflict at all with most reasonable socio economic models to say that those who manage people have some moral responsibilities towards those they manage. Whilst some seek to exploit their employees we rightly frown on these ( and the hullabaloo over SportsDirect last year showed this) suggesting that at some level most of us accept there is a moral dimension as well as a purely legal one. The difficulty is of course where you draw this line.
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