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chocolate companies‚ (Nestle‚ Hershey‚ Mars‚ etc.)‚ are taking the brunt of the negativity. In the beginning‚ as cocoa prices increased across the world‚ the Ivory Coast Government encouraged the cultivation of cocoa and even gave various incentives for growing such. But now there are various ethical issues that are raised. Is the slavery that is used to grow and cultivate the cocoa beans; viewed is an absolute or relative wrong‚ and who shares in the moral responsibility for the slavery occurring
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stated in figure 1 above‚ the cocoa on the Rancho Quemado Estate takes up 40% of the land‚ while 30% was donated to the petting zoo and the nature trail. Whereas‚ 20% is occupied by citrus and 10% is used for aquaculture. The Rancho Quemado Agri Eco-Tourism Park spans 45 acres and so far 25 acres have been rehabilitated by the Brash family‚ owners of the estate. Such large amounts of land are used for cocoa because the estate harvests Trinitario beans which comprises the cocoa used in chocolate products
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expose a political issue involving inequality. In her excerpt from Bitter Chocolate‚ titled “Cocoa on Trial”‚ Off exploits the inequalities inside the chocolate industry. Even after the slave trade laws have been abolished people were experiencing horrendous conditions. From Angola to the cocoa plants in Sao Tome‚ Africans were treated like slaves. The main idea of this chapter revolves around big cocoa businesses and moral disengagement. These businesses do not care about the well-being of others
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about the economic‚ political‚ legal‚ and other social systems or institutions within which businesses operate. These issues are inherent in the overall system‚ rather than due to a specific‚ individual‚ isolated factor. The decline in prices of the cocoa beans in the global market since 1996 is one economic factor presented in the case. This decline drove farmers to use slavery to lower labor cost. In relation to the legal aspect‚ slavery is illegal in the Ivory Coast but the law is not strictly followed
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Challenges: Companies and stakeholders face challenges when dealing with sensitive issues like the environment a ethical and social business practice should be minimise any harm to the environment and work in ways that do not damage the communities in which it operates within. Coca- Cola is a company that consider the impact of their activities on stakeholders; however Coca-cola still faces challenges in being ethical and socially responsible. Since the set up of a Coca-cola plant in the state
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Sourcing is also major issue for Cadbury‚ as they ensure ethical and sustainable sourcing‚ maintain ethical sourcing standards and are developing sustainable agriculture programmes. Which is managed by the sustainability strategy group and the Cadbury cocoa partnership board‚ ensuring quality and safety Cadbury also has fair trade certification: meaning • Through fair trade certification‚ Cadbury had helped 55000 member farmers in Ghana take part in farmer training‚ they have also received equipment
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INTRODUCTION Background of the study A key objective of human resource management is to contribute towards the achievement of high level of employee and organization performance (Armstrong‚ 2005). Hutchinson‚ Kinnie‚ Purcell and Boxall (2003) contend that intangible assets such as culture‚ skill‚ competence‚ motivation and social interaction between people and teams are increasingly being seen as a source of strength in enhancing performance. This is evident in those firms which can combine
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Job Costing Job costing is the process of tracking the expenses incurred on a job against the revenue produced by that job. Job costing is an important tool for those who are pairing a relatively high dollar volume per customer with a relatively low number of customers. For example‚ building contractors‚ subcontractors‚ architects and consultants often use job costing‚ whereas a hardware store or convenience store would not use job costing. Job costing using accounting software enables you to track
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corporations are generally only concerned with one thing…the bottom line. That is‚ maximizing profit‚ regardless of the social or environmental costs.” —David Suzuki Bottling of freshwater from a rare resource in the Fiji Islands‚ and harvesting of cocoa beans via child slave labor in West Africa‚ are both ethically questionable. Business practices from both commodities have little regard on damages inflicted during their production. Ethical issues‚ similarities‚ and differences with both commodities
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