The challenge, then, is to identify the basic ethical rules that managers are to follow while they pursue profits. I argue in this article that the most effective way to grapple with ethical issues in human resource management is to apply a framework of moral principles that have been examined ans successfully used to analyze ethical issues in other aspects of human life. That is, instead of developing a new set of moral principles that are specially developed for human resource management, I argue that we can apply well-developed existing moral principles.