Nike: The Sweatshop Debate MGT/448 May 31‚ 2010 Instructor: Adrianne Ford Nike: The Sweatshop Debate The purpose and intent of this paper is to describe the legal‚ cultural‚ and ethical challenges that face the Nike Corporation in their global business ventures. This paper will also touch on the roles of the host government and countries where Nike manufactures their products and the author will summarize the strategic and operational challenges that Nike managers face in globalization of
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Defending your constitutional rights‚ is what this country is about. Deeming an item of the United States Constitution unconstitutional may seem to many as an impossible task‚ however in this land of the free and home of the brave‚ we aim to make sure that whatever Constitutional stone the framers left unturned has been or will be adhered to and interpreted accordingly. Although a law may read the same on paper‚ the interpretation of that law may have different meanings (broad or narrow) depending
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Part 1: Intellectual Standards- “The vast majority of Transterra’s college apparel is manufactured in a factory in Honduras which employs primarily women and children who operate under horrific conditions.” The author is violating the intellectual standards of precision and breadth. The author does not provide enough details to emphasis that the company employs primarily women and children. It could be possible that everyone has a different meaning to horrific conditions. In other countries it
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that seem to go on forever. Imagine young women who have aged too fast sitting behind these machines working their life away. These women are slaving away making the clothes many United States companies are selling today. Yes‚ the U.S. has made sweatshops illegal within its borders‚ but its companies are still greatly involved with them. Many companies have just outsourced their productions to foreign countries due to the outlaw
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Part I: Four Universal Intellectual Standard Errors and Corrections In the essay “Sweatshirts from Sweatshops” pertaining Cromwell College sweatshirts‚ the information gathered was from Cromwell Clarion‚ the school paper. An “investigation” report was made by the WorldWeave Foundation (a nonprofit organization funded by American garment workers’ union). The first violation of the Universal Intellectual Standards is the accuracy. The statistics of how many minors and females for the company’s total
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Running head: Nike and the Sweatshop Debate Nike the Sweatshop Debate Shelia D. Marshall Global Strategies MGT 448 Shabbir Karim October 12‚ 2009 Nike the Sweatshop Debate Beneath all the hoopla and controversy about Nike being a successful company in the United States in which its earnings in 2009 according to Hoovers Inc.‚ 2009‚ Nike’s revenue for 2009 was $19‚ 176.1 million and their gross profit was $8‚604.4 million‚ made possible by the hands of women and underage workers
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“Just Do It”‚ is also the violator of several labour practices. To begin‚ the creation of Nike shoes is accomplished in sweatshops in Indonesia‚ China‚ and Vietnam (Global Exchange‚ n.d.). On a typical day in Vietnam‚ Nike shoes are manufactured in a factory where human dignity is nonexistence. These violating practices are similar to the Dhaka factories‚ in which Vietnam sweatshops are forced to lock their doors despite the fire hazards associated with it (Global Exchange‚ n.d.). The workers must
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themselves and their dependents. Lastly you should consider Henry Ford’s Famous quote "The more I pay my workers‚ the more modal "T"s they can buy. 2. What do you think Nike’s executives might have done differently to prevent the sensitive charges of sweatshop labor in overseas factories? For a start build safe modern facilities and pay a decent prevailing wage scale. Of course if the appropriate wage for the area is $ .90/hr and there is little in the way of local Health & Safety regulations. it is
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Beaulieu 1 Timothy Beaulieu Ms. Messier English 10H 2/27/13 George the Murderer As George’s lawyer‚ Timothy Beaulieu‚ I will be defending my litigant George Milton in this murder trial. George Milton was charged with premeditated murder for killing Lennie Small. One might find it alarming that George killed his best friend‚ Lennie‚ after all their aforementioned adventures together. Another might find it eccentric that Curley’s wife was killed and then Lennie gets killed shortly after. Accusa
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Ethical issues regarding Sweatshops Michelle Rice Business Ethics Jacqueline Newkirk Remember when you were at the mall the last time and saw a pair of Nike shoes that you just couldn’t live without? You had to buy them‚ for a pricey cost‚ and just loved them‚ right? We all have owned a pair or two of Nike shoes in our life. They were the “cool” shoes to have back when I was in school. The thing that we may not have known is that Nike has been using “children as young as fifteen years old”
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