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Assignment #4
WEEK FOUR: Ethics and International Business
Chapter 6: Global Business Practices; Review Cases 6.1, 6.2.
Assignment – Be prepared to answer these questions:
- How does the term “sweatshops” carry such heavy emotional baggage? How has reform had an effect on this term and its stained image? Has regulation helped?
- Compare the Adeney article and Case 6.2 : What will you do? Is there a balance?
- Abide by host country standards?
- Abide by standard of your own country?
- Name 3 risks to be considered doing business internationally.
- Define free trade and fair trade – how do these differ? How do they frustrate each other?
- Where does the “power of the markets” intersect with our Christian social action to unshackle the golden handcuffs of fair trade?
- Review the following article: http://en.mercopress.com/2006/07/31/brazil-s-informal-economy-absorbs-60-of-workforce. Would you support working in an underground economic market to empower and support those unserved by their present market structure if the government overseeing the public market is correct and demands bribes and kickbacks? Why or why not?
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Week Four Assignment
The term “sweatshops” carries a vast emotional part in most of the factories’ works
because it defines the poor working conditions in several factories (Schuster & Copeland, 2006).
In these factories, employees work under very harsh and uncomfortable conditions. In most of
the factories, the working environment is always questionable because of the poor conditions the
employees are subjected to. Nevertheless, reforms made in the factories have improved the
working conditions, allowing workers to work in comparably conducive working conditions.
Design changes and the implementation of regulations have ensured the air conditioning in the
factories have been taken care of, works have the necessary working tools, and clothes and that
workers receive payments that correctly reflect their workload in the factories.
The Adeney article identifies the unpleasing environmental conditions that most workers
are subjected to while working in the factories. The article b...