CASE 9 Daryl Benson NIKE: Managing Ethical Missteps—Sweatshops to Leadership in Employment Practices Phil Knight and his University of Oregon track coach Bill Bowerman founded Blue Ribbon Sports‚ later renamed Nike‚ in 1964. The idea‚ born as a result of a paper written by Knight during his Stanford MBA program‚ was to import athletic shoes from Japan into the U.S. market otherwise dominated by German competitors Puma and Adidas. The company initially operated as a distributor for
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2. Why should Nike be held responsible for what happens in factories that it does not own? Does Nike have a responsibility to ensure that factory workers receive a “living wage”? Do the wage guidelines of FLA or WRC seem most appropriate to you? Why? 3. Is it ethical for Nike to pay endorsers millions while its factory employees receive a few dollars a day? 4. Is Nike’s responsibility to monitor its subcontracted factories a legal‚ economic‚ social‚ or philanthropic responsibility? What
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Why does war happen‚ you might ask? War happens due to many reasons for example of economics‚ land‚ resources‚ religious beliefs and the most important reason why war starts is power‚ those are just some of many reasons why it happens. Wars have many effects on people; they could get severely depressed‚ and not see their families for months or even years at a time‚ and in some cases over a year. When back home‚ they would not be the same‚ due to the traumatic events that they have been threw they
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or your own life could be at stake depending on your decisions. In moments of extreme measures‚ the human psyche will change‚ and his or her instincts will start to kick in and sometimes it will override rational thoughts. In these types of situations‚ the idea of accountability gets tangled with survival instincts‚ causing the situation to not be so black and white‚ which gives us the gray area of whether people should be held accountable or not. People in life or death situations should not be held
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Corporate Social Responsibility at Nike‚ Inc. Overview of Policies and Activities CSR Structure In its approach to social responsibility‚ Nike groups initiatives into six separate categories: reducing waste‚ cutting energy‚ slashing water use‚ rejecting toxins‚ supporting communities‚ and empowering workers.1 Each of these initiatives carries three types of goals: an aim‚ a target‚ and commitments. The aim consists of the overall vision of that segment‚ while the
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You might have thanked the trees for giving oxygen but never phytoplankton. What can they do except try to steal the Krusty Krab formula? Well‚ what if I said that without phytoplankton‚ the entire marine ecosystem collapse‚ an increase of 1/3 accumulation of CO2‚ and oxygen drop up to 50 percent in the atmosphere‚ which will lead to human extinction. Sounds dramatic‚ but it is true. I seriously think that we need to care more about these planktons‚ since they are not unlimited in the ocean‚ and
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Nike’s csr challenge It can be seen from the passage that Nike’s Asian factories audited hundreds of factories in 2003 and 2004 and found cases of abusive treatment in more than a quarter of its South Asian plants.And in 2005 Nike returned to report its social and environmental practices. It said that staffs and employees work in a poor environment .Between 25% to 50% of its employees and staffs in the region restrict access to toilets and drinking water during the workday. Besides ‚ a lot of staffs
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_"There is a big disconnect between the vast potential of the global economy and what it does for ordinary workers. Finding solutions to these new global realities is very difficult but not impossible; it just requires some hard thinking and some hard decisions. Where are the leaders with the vision to take up the challenge?"1_ The keywords in the above excerpt are "workers"‚ "solutions"‚ "leaders" and "challenge". Nike Inc.‚ the world _LEADER_ in the athletic footwear‚ apparel‚ equipment and accessories
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La Tisha Johnson October 10‚ 2010 Civilization 1 Why does the flood happen? Why is Utnapishtim singled out to be saved? Why does the flood happen? The flood happens because the counselor Enlil wanted to kill off all humans that lived in Shuruppak. He wanted to punish all of the humans for their sins and crimes they have committed. “It is right to punish the sinner for his sins‚ to punish the criminal for his crime”(pg 189-190 book xi. ) Five of the Gods in secret agreed to flood Shuruppak
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do they care. Why should they have to care how the item was made or anything about it? To care about something can simply mean to feel concern or interest for it. I think many Americans care about the working conditions of the factory workers that our creating our consumer goods such as shoes. But they only care about it in the sense of feeling concern or interest in it. Caring in this sense I believe does not help at all solve the problem of terrible working conditions of factory workers. Therefore
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