Globalization of economies and the idea of capitalism in the developing countries make sweatshops inevitable. Consequently‚ there is an increased demand for cheap labor from the developing countries to work in the sweatshops (Berliner et al.‚ 2015). Nonetheless‚ the operations of the sweatshops are extraordinarily oppressive and unethical. Corporations take advantage of the poverty heights in developing countries to exploit and infringe the worker’s human rights. Biblically‚ the argument that this
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opportunity to buy as much as they can for as little as possible especially on black Friday. The problem he identifies in his article‚ is the high human cost and forced people in sweatshops have to work per week for just pennies an hour just to make the necessary for their survival. Ravisankar assumes his readers know little about sweatshops and furthermore‚ how difficult and awful conditions are really are. He goes on to say that some of these workers have to be forced to work extremely long 70 to 80 hours
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An Integrated Distance Learning System Capable of Supporting Interactions for Asynchronous Distance Learning Shimon Sakai‚ Tsunenobu Narahara‚ Naoaki Mashita‚ Hiroshi Shigeno‚ Ken-ichi Okada School of Science for OPEN and Environmental Systems‚ Graduate School of Science and Technology‚ Keio University 3-14-1 Hiyoshi‚ Kohoku-ku‚ Yokohama‚ 223-8522 Japan shimon@mos.ics.keio.ac.jp Yutaka Matsushita Telecommunications Advancement Organization of Japan Banzai-Biru‚ 2-31-19‚ Shiba‚ Kohoku-ku‚
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Part 1-Intellectual Standards 1. “According to Cromwell’s director of auxiliary services more that 90% of the logo merchandise is produced by Transterra Textiles…” -This example violates the Universal standards of Relevance and Significance. Why is the director of auxiliary services considered credible when speaking on the production of the school’s merchandise? Why is their opinion relevant? What significance does this fact have in the ultimate goal of changing the factory? To correct the problem
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stakeholders - interests and power Common and conflicting interests of stakeholders The different stakeholder groups have different interests some in common with other stakeholders and some in conflict. Examples of common interests: * Shareholders and employees have a common interest in the success of the organisation. * High profits which not only lead to high dividends but also job security. * Suppliers have an interest in the growth and prosperity of the firm. Examples
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impact on the company.( Oxford University Press‚ 2007) Porter’s Five Forces: will determine the competitive intensity and therefore attractiveness of a market. (Porter‚ 2008). Finally it will be discussed the company’s ability to interact with its stakeholders. Background and company’s mission statement Jet2.com Limited is a British low-cost airline founded in 2002 based at Leeds Bradford Airport‚ England. It operates services from eight UK bases to 54 destinations. “Our aim is to be the safest
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CASE STUDY Q1. What could Nike as a particular Company do to ensure that their associate contract manufacturers‚ all over the world comply with minimum standards of corporate governance in their factories‚ even before they were engaged? Ans1. Nike company should deliver a legal enviironment to the manufacturing factories with which the company is carrying out its contaracts all over the world inorder to support these factories to be able to encourage the ecnomic activity all over the world which
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In this essay ‚some theories about stakeholder‚stakeholder analysis and stakeholder mapping will be disscused.Outlining the main ideas ‚pointing out the strenght and limitation will be the tasks of the first parts of the assignment.Then apply the knowledges to certain higher education instituion (in this case‚ the University of Essex) later in the essay.More analysis and comparison can be found in this part. First of all‚the definition of stakeholder.In other words‚who are they?The answer can
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Since the mid 1900’s Nike has been dealing with the repercussions of the sweatshop scandal‚ redeeming itself as an industry leader in ethics‚ and is learning the hard way that they should be more liable about their production. However‚ there are ways for Nike to eliminate their immoral labor practices and still be a noteworthy company. Nike‚ a well renowned and one of the largest shoe brands‚ has contracts with manufacturing companies whom use foreign workers located in such countries as China
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Which companies are operating sweatshops? Many of the companies directly running sweatshops are small and don’t have much name recognition. However‚ virtually every retailer in the U.S. has ties to sweatshops. The U.S. is the biggest market for the garment industry and almost all the garment sales in this country are controlled by 5 corporations: Wal-Mart‚ JC Penney‚ Sears‚ The May Company (owns and operates Lord & Taylor‚ Hecht1s‚ Filene1s and others) and Federated Department Stores (owns and operates
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