Ethical Code of the HR-Manager Profession: Review of Foreign Practices

The profession of "HR specialist" is new and dynamically developing. As the history of professional culture shows, a significant indicator of the autonomy and strength of the community is the presence of a clearly articulated system of corporate values and norms, presented as a code of ethics. Currently, HR managers in Russia do not use the institution of ethical codification as a tool for strengthening professional identity, increasing recognition and trust in the labor market. The purpose of the study is to systematize international experience and identify the potential of the Russian professional community of HR managers for the specified consolidation. The object of the study is the code of ethics as a tool for regulating professional activity. The subject is the ethical codes of the HR manager profession. To achieve the goal of the study, the following tasks were formulated: identifying problems associated with the development of an ethical code of the profession; analysis of ethical codes of the HR manager profession of large foreign associations; based on the analytics, formulating a recommendation for the creation of a Russian ethical code of the HR manager profession. The codes of the largest international associations of HR managers were selected for the study: AHRI (Australia), CPHR (Canada), SHRM (USA), CIPD (Great Britain). Their codes can provide a basis for the formation of a general code for the profession of "HR specialist". Having considered the most common moral difficulties of a specialist, it was found that all of them are associated with the lack of an ideological level of the profession in an HR manager. The result of the work was recommendations for the development of an ethical code for the profession of "HR specialist" in Russia, which can be used by any company or association that needs it.