Ethical Impact in HRM: Advancing Knowledge Production With Mode E
本文提出模式E这一启发式工具，帮助研究者反思知识生产中的伦理影响，适用于不同研究方法和范式，对学者和实践者均有价值。
ABSTRACT This article introduces Mode E, a heuristic for knowledge production in Human Resource Management (HRM) research that foregrounds ethical research impact. While current debates on knowledge production emphasize internal and external research impact through rigorous and relevant contributions to scholarship and practice, the ethical dimension of impact remains underexplored. What is lacking is a clear conceptualization of what constitutes ethical research impact and how to integrate it into knowledge production. This paper addresses this gap by offering Mode E as a sensitizing heuristic grounded in feminist theory, which supports researchers in reflecting on the ethical dimensions of impact‐making. Anchored in reflection categories of power, context, and pluralism, Mode E enables a deeper engagement with ethicality across different aspects of research impact—both through the research outcomes and in the processes of knowledge production. This heuristic is applicable across research methods and paradigms, offering a tool for both scholars and practitioners to enhance the ethical impact of HRM scholarship.