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Human Resource Development International: Special IssueThis special issue seeks to advance debate about the relationship between Human Resource Development (HRD), Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR), sustainability and ethics focusing particularly on the challenges and ambiguities presented in an international context. In recent years legal changes and increased media scrutiny have increased the pressure on organisations to integrate ethical, CSR and sustainability values and behaviours into organisational life to enhance ‘reputational capital’ and stimulate and retain talent (Foote and Ruona 2008; Ormiston and Wong 2013). At the same time successive high-profile scandals have led to what has been characterised as a breakdown of trust between organisations and their communities, customers, stakeholders and employees. In response a renewed commitment by organisational figureheads to ‘responsible leadership’ is evident to promote and sustain ethical values and sustainable performance (Pless and Maak 2011; Moore, et al. 2012; Sadler-Smith 2013). However, discrepancies between espoused ethical values and enacted behaviours by people in organisations resulting in decisions that are socially irresponsive have led to an increasing level of accusations of moral delinquency on the part of leaders, managers and the Human Resources function. (...)Lire la suite : http://www.tandf.co.uk/journals/cfp/rhrdcfp.pdfDeadline:Friday 29 November 2013