MSGL 502 Ethics and Leadership An Ethical look into Slavery in the Chocolate Industry People around the world share a love of chocolate‚ one of the most delicious and pleasurable foods on earth. However‚ thousands of Africa’s children are modern-day slaves‚ bonded to their employers and forced against their will to work in hazardous and heartbreaking conditions. Slavery in the chocolate industry has been widely publicized through the years. The face of enslaved children has been the
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Slavery in the Chocolate Industry What a systematic‚ corporate‚ an individual and ethical issues raised by this case? The systematic ethical issues raised by this case include economical‚ political‚ and legal questions. Let us first look at the economical repercussions. Would it be economically logical not to do any business with these countries? The answer is no‚ considering close to half of the world’s chocolate is made from the cocoa beans that are grown in the Ivory Coast and Ghana
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. Many products and services often pass a life cycle while there are many shapes depending on their industries. They newly emerge in the society‚ start to sell to be widespread‚ become saturated in the market and then gradually get out of date. This sequence of product and service is called the product life cycle. Smartphone also passes such natural path. According to the next web (2011)‚ first smartphone brand was Ericsso’s GS88 in 1997. A touchscreen smartphone‚ which is widespread now‚ was launched
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business cycle. What stage is the US currently in? How do you know? What tools can the federal government use to turn the economy around? A business cycle is identified as a sequence of four phases: * Contraction (A slowdown in the pace of economic activity) * Trough (The lower turning point of a business cycle‚ where a contraction turns into an expansion) * Expansion (A speedup in the pace of economic activity) * Peak (The upper turning of a business cycle) A recession
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these slaves and publicized these events in the year 2000 however there was no impact of this documentary. The reason for this was later revealed to be the fact that the African government‚ African farmers‚ American chocolate Companies‚ Distributers‚ Consumers and most importantly Chocolate manufacturer association knew already knew about this issue but did nothing to rectify the situation. 2. Economically speaking‚ the price of cocoa beans declined by about 25% between the years 1996 and 2000. This
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Slavery in the Chocolate Industry Introduction The forced labour of children in the Ivorian cocoa farms is at a distance from the glamourised candy producers such as Mars and Nestlé‚ and a universe away from the day-to-day consumers of chocolate. That such a quixotic market shares a commonality with the more exposed diamond market‚ for example‚ whose implication in the sale and involvement of guns in tribal cleansing has long been documented‚ drives home the reminder that our modern prosperity
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Belgium Chocolate: History: First introduction is when Spanish conquistadors met Azctec king. 1585 first recorded shipment from veracruz to Sevilla‚ Spain and spread to Europe from there. The first recorded shipment of chocolate to Europe for commercial purposes was in a shipment from Veracruz to Sevilla in 1585.[17] It was still served as a beverage‚ but the Europeans added cane sugar to counteract the natural bitterness and removed the chili pepper while retaining the vanilla‚ in addition they
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The Prohibition; A Lead to the Chocolate Industry: It is post World War I and a new sense of joy filled the atmosphere. The war was finally over and a feeling of change was around everyone. The citizens have a new feeling of ravishment and society has changed. People are tapping their feet and humming to the tune of Jazz music‚ women find pride in the confidence they wear with their short hair and skirts‚ while other activist women are finding more pride in their right to vote . Men go to speakeasies
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The product life cycle (PLC) describes the stages a new product goes through from beginning to end. PLC includes four major stages: market introduction‚ market growth‚ market maturity and sales decline. I decided to take an industry of cameras production as an example. I will show an application of PLC to the period‚ when cameras producers introduced such new product as digital cameras. In the market introduction stage‚ when this type of cameras were introduced to a market for the very first
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and this institution should have personnel able to visit at least 2 times per year each registered farm for ensure the welfare of the children or at least that they are been treated with human conditions that don’t put in risk his life. The company’s members of the Chocolate Manufacturers Association are big and renowned companies with high earnings‚ so I think that they should use part of its money to this cause if they want to have access to these producers. 2. In your view‚ is the kind of child
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