RONY IKEA Supplier Quality Standard Issued By: Approved By: Date Edition Quality Improvement Group Product Quality Manager‚ Trading Operation 2010-09-02 2 Table of content: Introduction GO / NO GO requirements 1. Management 2. Start-up process 3. Secure Incoming Goods 4. Production Control 5. Final Inspection 6. Document and Sample Control 7. General Requirements Page 1 2 3 4 6 7 8 9 10 INTRODUCTION IKEA Supplier Quality Standard This IKEA Supplier
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Cultural Relativism and Child Labor Child Labor The use of child labor in developing nations is not a moral issue‚ it is a cultural one. International corporations should not let the moral argument or current legislation such as the Child Labor Deterrence Act (CLDA) influence how and where they conduct operations. Grounded in what appears as legitimate concern for children‚ proposed legislation such as the CLDA hinder the potential growth and progress of developing nations by limiting the number
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IKEA SWOT analysis Strengths Weaknesses 1. Customer knowledge 2. Constantly using innovations to drive costs down 3. Supply chain integration 4. Brand reputation and market presence 5. Diversified product portfolio 1. Negative publicity 2. Decreasing quality 3. Standard products Opportunities Threats 1. Further expansion into developing economies 2. Growing online sales 3. Expansion to growing grocery market 1. Intensifying competition 2. Growth of average consumer income 1. Customer knowledge
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Did you know that 80 to 90 percent of laborers in sweatshops are women? The Breaker Boys were boys used as labor in coal mines. Conditions of child labor in other countries today are affecting kids from all ages. And the scenarios that the sweatshop workers have to go through are dangerous. Child labor is a very poor form of labor using children to do harmful work and it has affected life in the world and has killed millions. The Breaker Boys and their experiences affected their families and the
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Child Labor in America Throughout the 1700’s and the early 1800’s child labor was a major issue in American society. Children have always worked for family businesses whether it was an agricultural farming situation or working out of a family business in some type of workplace. This was usually seen in families of middle or lower class because extra help was needed to support the family. Child labor dramatically changed when America went through the Industrial Revolution. When America’s industrial
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“The object of employing children is not to train them‚ but to get high profits from their work‚” wrote Lewis Hine. Child labor was and still is real. People shouldn’t buy products that were manufactured from child labor. People shouldn’t buy products manufactured from a child with child labor because those children are being deprived of many things in life because of child labor. Children are deprived of their childhood and most of all their education. Although‚ some say that children go to work
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being promised a better life. Second‚ West Africa produces seventy percent of the world’s chocolate therefore they need many people to work so the percent of kids working drastically goes up. Third‚ many organizations are trying to lower the number of child laborers in West Africa. Chocolate production in India has an impact on many children in West Africa today. Firstly‚ production in West Africa has an impact on children from poor families in West Africa today. Children in West Africa from ages five
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lead to lower prices) IKEA: Indian Rugs & Child Labor Summary: Ikea is a Swedish furniture retailer. One of Ikea’s major suppliers for their rugs/carpets industry‚ Rangan Exports‚ is under accusation for the exploitation of child labor. This is a major reputation risk for Ikea. Marianne Barner‚ business are manager for carpets‚ evaluates alternatives of suppliers‚ and considers what they should do going forward. Problem: What actions should Marianne Barner and Ikea take‚ in order to protect
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Speaking at a suffrage convention‚ social worker Florence Kelley calls upon her audience to combine child labor and women’s suffrage issues in order to make advances in both areas. Basing her argument on factual evidence‚ Kelley further uses emotional and ethical appeal‚ supported by strong diction and subtle syntax structures t convey the necessity of reform to her audience. Florence Kelley provides a great point with a weak argument in her speech. Her writing is almost mere state by state
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you know what went into the making of your clothes? It could be the blood of a child‚ the sweat of a child‚ the tears of a child‚ or simply the life of a child. India is a major home to child labor. According to the International Labour Organization (ILO)‚ an estimated 120 million children from the ages of five to fourteen work fulltime or more; of these‚ India is responsible for about 44 million. (International Labor Organization) These children have been deprived of their basic rights to education
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