Weispfenning Nike Case Study #1 MGMT 310 Jason Cussler January 31, 2014 Nike Falters in Ethical Practices Nike has faced many ethical dilemmas such as human rights abuses, labor violations, and negative impact on the environment where manufacturing plants are located. Their responses have varied from improving labor standards in each facility to implementing a recycling program for worn out shoes for the consumer, and creating a no waste recycling program at all levels of the Nike operations
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Course Case No 12 Nike: From Sweatshops to Leadership in Empoyment Praticses Group’ name: 1. Huynh, Tram : ID#: 179105 2. Nguyen, Uyen : ID#: 179119 3. Tran, Xuan : ID# 179128 4. Dinh Tran, Ngoc : ID#: 179139 5. Nguyen, Phuc : ID#: 179150 6. Kim Nguyen : I- Summary: Nike Company was founded in 1964, Nike officially changed
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Nike's CSR Challenge This article discusses the challenges facing Nike in overcoming the stigma of poor human rights practices in their past, and how that has affected their overall business in the current decade. Social responsibility has always been an important factor to a company’s long term performance and sustainability. If you compare the stock performance of the top 50 most socially responsible companies, as published by Boston College’s Institute for Corporate Responsibility, to
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Nike Inc. Nike’s Unethical Business Practices Nike’s Unethical Business Practices Love those Nike shoes your wearing? Have you ever thought how they were made, who made them, and at what price they were made at? I bet you probably don’t. I bet that you see those Nike shoes at the store, and think to yourself, “oh I like those shoes, I have to have them,” and then buy them. What you don’t know is that those pair of shoes you just bought were probably made in a third world factory by employees
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The Social Disadvantage of being a Child Labourer: The Case of Nike Social disadvantages manifest over periods of time into social issues, benefiting particular groups of people while marginalizing others. The case of child labourers that are being exploited by Western-born fashion companies is a complex issue that has been occurring for many years as a result of multiple circumstances, specifically capitalism. To generalize, the companies that use child labour to create their products are the
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Operations at Nike, Nike is currently in a situation that every company would like to avoid. The name Nike is now associated with an ongoing list of labor issues. Nike has had over three decades of corporate success, but this success is slowing and could continue to slow if changes are not made. Nike’s strategy has always been to outsource all manufacturing to cut costs and allow for a higher marketing budget. While this strategy is successful in keeping costs low, it fails to address human rights
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rights than the distancing of Nike from the suppliers, Nike's Corporate Responsibility teams realized that paying the role of a corporate citizen not responsible for their supply chains was only going to make matters worse over time (DeTienne, Lewis, 359). Instead of incrementally creating programs that sought to bridge the gap in both critics and the publics' trust that Nike was indeed concerned about unethical and immoral practices in their supply chain, Nike should have immediately moved to
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Some of the main criticisms of Nike were that the factories in the Asian countries were considered to be sweatshops. This means that the individuals that were working in these factories were being treated poorly, unfairly, and unethically. The people that were working in these factories were not being paid adequately for the work that they were doing daily in their jobs. This pay was also lower than what was required by law. The conditions that the workers were expected to perform in were also not
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Management Topic 2: Nike workers claim military paid to intimidate them In a nutshell, this article talks about the heated debate that employees of Nike are intimidated by the military to sign a contract that forces them to support Nike from paying the new wage. To gain maximum profit of having the lowest cost possible, Nike expanded to developing countries like Indonesia, China and Vietnam. These countries have the abundance of labour and the country prohibits labour unions. As such, claims have
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Analysis: Nike Introduction Nike was established in 1972 by Bill Bowerman and Phil Knight. These two men were visionaries. The goal for Nike was to carry on Bowerman’s legacy of innovative thinking by helping every athlete reach their goal or by creating lucrative business opportunities that would set the company apart from any competition. This included providing quality work environments for all who were employed by Nike.
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