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CASE STUDY

Q1. What could Nike as a particular Company do to ensure that their associate contract manufacturers, all over the world comply with minimum standards of corporate governance in their factories, even before they were engaged?
Ans1. Nike company should deliver a legal enviironment to the manufacturing factories with which the company is carrying out its contaracts all over the world inorder to support these factories to be able to encourage the ecnomic activity all over the world which results in the creation of wealth.In order to be more efficient Nike Company should concentrate on the effectiveness of the structures that are enrolled in the corporate governance of the manufacturing factories before these factories get engaged in the performance of their routine activitiesof the business which will inturn leads to the better management of the resources, which will surely leads to fruitful bebefits to the whole society.

Q.2 what particular offence Hytex committed in this case?
Ans.2 A clear offense undertaken by the Hytex company in the case is that the Hytex company has held the Passports and the copies of the labor contracts of all of its hired immigrant employees belonging to a number of foreign countries including the countries of India, Banagladesh, Meyanmar, Indonesia, Nepal,Vietnam and China in addition the copies of the labor contracts were provided in the languages in which the immigrant employees were unable to understand so such a providance of the copies of the contracts were of no use to the immigrant employees.This offence commited by the Hytex company is a clear violation of law of the Malaysian government. Q.3 what did the Nike do to improve the situations in Hytex?
Ans3. Nike had put in efforts to improve the situations in the Hytex Company by:
Firstly investigating the Hirring rules followed by the Hytex company and by forming some stricked rules according to which the passports Nikof the immigrant employees will be in

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