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Personalizing Global Ethics: Faces and Places, Essay Assessment |
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How can an MNE operating in a developing country have a positive influence on labor policies? Illustrate your answer with an example.
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Companies must serve any number of stakeholders, ranging from employees and shareholders to general society. What sorts of reasons motivate companies to act ethically?
Question 3 5 pts
Note: While similar to the other question with the same illustration, this question is fundamentally different.
Take another look at a key illustration in this assignment, namely the profile of how much does it cost to make a denim shirt in Bangladesh vs. the United States. This startling situation is not the exception. In a globalized market, virtually everything you can find at Target or Walmart that has been imported has the same price differential between its original point of production vs. a comparable point of production in America
When one thinks about the reason for the cost differential, and reflects on the video profiles of arduous working conditions in places such as Bangladesh and in Asia, eventually, one has to make sense this situation.
Against the backdrop, as well as the larger context of this particular assignment, how would you make sense of the ethical implications this cost differential from a NORMATIVE PERSPECTIVE?
Question 4 5 pts
Note: While similar to the other question with the same illustration, this question is fundamentally different.
Take another look at a key illustration in this assignment, namely the profile of how much does it cost to make a denim shirt in Bangladesh vs. the United States. This startling situation is not the exception. In a globalized market, virtually everything you can find at Target or Walmart that has been imported has the same price differential between its original point of production vs. a comparable point of production in America.
When one thinks about the reason for the cost differential, and reflects on the video profiles of arduous working conditions in places such as Bangladesh and in Asia, eventually, one has to make sense this situation.
Against the backdrop, as well as the larger context of this particular assignment, how would you make sense of the ethical implications this cost differential from a RELATIVISM PERSPECTIVE?
Question 5 5 pts
An executive of a leading apparel retailer who knowingly imports clothing made by children in unsafe work environments in Bangladesh participates in an industry conference. During a question-and-answer session, advocates of the Ethical Training Initiative question his business practices and challenge him to revamp operations and stop buying from local Bangladesh companies that do not comply with the employment policies of the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI). The executive replies that ethical standards are not legal standards, and while the ETI is an interesting, useful approach, at this time it will not influence his business operations.
If you were the executive in this particular situation, and were pressed to defend your perspective, what sort of arguments could you use to justify your view that ethical standards are not legal standards?
