I have argued in this article that business ethics is important, that human resource management is an area rich in ethical dilemmas, and that human resource management ethical dilemmas can be analyzed using a framework of five moral principles. The five moral principles I have included in the framework are general principles that have been developed and studied by philosophers. The principles are also ones that people commonly use to debate ethics from a different perspective. Thus, by combining the five principles into a framework, our analysis of ethics is more likely to be complete.