Case Study 6.1 Sweatshops Katie White BA 616 Business Ethics Dr. Moore 31 May 2014 Which of your company’s practices can you defend in good conscience? The company can defend moving much of it’s manufacturing plants overseas. For the company this cuts labor costs and provides jobs to those who are in desperate need in other countries. The wages provided to employees is in compliance with the local laws. The employees are satisfied with their wages and the hours they work. There is a large demand
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traditional culture in transition to a modern one. b. graphically depicts the abuse of native peoples at the hands of more technologically advanced white colonists. c. focuses on what might be called “slave labor” conditions in Third World sweatshops. d. portrays how one man is able to overcome his drug addiction to become the next chief of the
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A business cannot claim to be ethical firm if it ignores unethical practices by its suppliers – e.g. * Use of child labour and forced labour * Production in sweatshops * Violation of the basic rights of workers * Ignoring health‚ safety and environmental standards An ethical business has to be concerned with the behaviour of all businesses that operate in the supply chain – i.e. * Suppliers * Contractors * Distributors * Sales agents The two articles below
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improve customer safety and to educate consumers on how to use the products safely Socially responsible practices affect business practices in various ways. For instance; 1.Suppliers Socially responsible practices ensure that suppliers: - do not use sweatshops‚ child and forced labour such as prisoners; - pay their workers a living wage (that is above minimum wage). 2. Employees In addition to specific safety rules that employees must abide by‚ worker-focused socially responsible practices include:
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Critically evaluate the comparative transnational effectiveness of Benetton and Zara Zara and Benetton are two of the most acknowledged clothing companies in the fast fashion industry. The different international business strategies they adopt result in different transnational effectiveness. To begin with‚ this essay will give a brief overview of the motivation‚ means and mentality of these two companies‚ and then compare how they sustain their competitive advantages through integration‚ responsiveness
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situation took a new turn when VLW (Vietnamese Labour Watch) report came out and claimed Nike violated many labor regulations and this activated many human rights organisations in the US against Nike. Post this Nike faced a lawsuit against its sweatshop conditions and various newspaper articles followed. The controversies and the accusations continue to haunt Nike as workers go on strikes‚ please protests‚ mass boycotts happen and scarring incidents increase in Nike factories. Nike’s reaction
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Introduction This paper is a based on a case study of Nike. The paper will be discussing legal and ethical analysis and how the impact the operational/ ethical issues of the organization‚ the paper shall also be discussing the contribution factors and how the company’s corporate culture may have helped to minimize the unethical behavior or actually contributed to/caused the unethical behavior. The paper is also going to provide ethical decision factors‚ which are going to address or going to be
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Wal-Mart and Wages 4 - 7 - Basic Facts - Ethical Issues - Alternatives - Recommendations Wal-Mart and Gender Discrimination 7 - 10 - Basic Facts - Ethical Issues - Alternatives - Recommendations Wal-Mart and Sweatshops 11 - 14 - Basic Facts - Ethical Issues - Alternatives - Recommendations Wal-Mart and Community Impact 14 - 18 - Basic Facts - Ethical Issues - Alternatives - Recommendations Lawsuits 18 - 21 Impact on Stakeholders
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establishing an eight-hour workday for women. In Chicago‚ Florence Kelley became a resident at Hull-House. That is‚ she worked as well as lived there. Her work was part of the research documented in “Hull-House Maps and Papers”. She studied child labor in sweatshops and issued a report on that topic for the Illinois State Bureau of Labor. And she was appointed in 1893 by Governor John P. Altgeld as the first factory inspector for the state of Illinois. Consequently‚ she put forward the Factory & Workshop Inspection
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arises‚ the legitimacy of corporations will often be threatened‚ and such situations attract repercussions such as legal restrictions‚ restrained resources or reduced demand for products. For instance‚ in the 1990s‚ Nike was penalised for using sweatshops to manufacture sports apparel. Society and most importantly customers were against the use of child labour and substandard working conditions which led to massive protest and boycott of their products. Given the cost of non-conformance‚ corporations
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