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  <journal>
    <title>Journal of Business and Retail Management Research</title>
    <acronym>JBRMR</acronym>
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    <issn_online>2056-6271</issn_online>
    <doi_prefix>https://doi.org/10.24052/JBRMR/</doi_prefix>
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  <article>
    <id>81</id>
    <title>Labour Flexibility and the Ethical Responsibility of Businesses</title>
    <abstract>This article seeks to examine labour flexibility within the context of the ethical and social responsibilities of businesses. Our aim is to find out what bases there are for businesses and organisations to claim moral and ethical responsibilities as they implement flexible employment policies. The article shall define labour flexibility and examine the implications of the different flexible employment contracts for stakeholders namely organisations and employees. The problem of ethics and the difficulty of using ethical arguments in determining right and wrong decisions shall be highlighted. Consequently the article shall use normative ethics which incorporates approaches such as the utilitarian approach, justice approach, moral or natural right approach and individualism approach as the bases to evaluate the ethical dimensions of labour flexibility</abstract>
    <doi></doi>
    <url>https://jbrmr.com/details&amp;cid=81</url>
    <pdf_url>https://jbrmr.com/cdn/article_file/2018-12-20-17-05-18-PM.pdf</pdf_url>
    <volume>Volume 01</volume>
    <issue>Issue 2</issue>
    <issue_id>11</issue_id>
    <issue_published_month>2007-07-01</issue_published_month>
    <published_date>2012-02-29</published_date>
    <online_first_status>no</online_first_status>
    <online_first_date></online_first_date>
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    <authors>
      <author>
        <name>Frank Bamfo</name>
        <organization>Breyer State University London Centre</organization>
        <country></country>
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