Claudia Hernández Rubio Dirección de operaciones Universidad San Jorge GADE, 2013-2014 Case study: Nissan, planning for quality and productivity 4. How can just-in-time approaches ensure that production is synchronized with customer demand? Thanks to a production line, perfectly constantly monitored and attention to customer order, where production is simultaneous to actual orders. Nissan process depends on the human ability of its employees and the accuracy of the machines that have
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Name: Anon Professor: E. K. Sweatshop Exercise Assignment Part 1: By applying the Universal Intellectual Standards, four errors or violations have been identified in the essay “Sweatshirts from Sweatshops”. The information contained in this essay was apparently gathered from an investigation report conducted by the WorldWeave Foundation, of course mentioned only by the writer, more on this later. One of the first thing I noticed as a violation is the use of emotional manipulation. Countless
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In the article “Secret, Lies, and Sweatshops” Dexter Roberts and Peter Engardio are strictly against sweatshops. Roberts and Engardio view sweatshops as a human’s rights issue. Workers in sweatshops face deplorable working conditions with minimal pay. He also addresses the fact that during audits many factories are creating fake records to conceal issues such paying working below minimum wage and not paying for overtime. “Chinese export manufacturing is rife with tales of deception” (Engardio and
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products are made by people in sweatshops which are workplaces where, they’re is poor ventilation, and intense heat and many more terrible working conditions. Sweatshop worker’s worker for an extremely low pay rate and work from seventy to eighty hours a week to make these cheap products that everyone loves. He assumes his readers don’t fully understand what sweatshop workers have to go through. His purpose in this essay is to inform the readers of the injustice of sweatshop oppression,
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Nike Corporation is one of the largest marketers of athletic apparel and sportswear equipment in the world and was founded in Beaverton, Oregon, in 1964 by Phil Knight and Bill Bowerman. According to Nike.com (2009) it had record earnings of 19.2 billion dollars and continues to grow at a steady pace. Nike sold its products in a 140 countries and successfully discovered that manufacturing its products was not the only method to successfully produce the results it was looking for but instead marketing
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cheap products is a morally unacceptable practice. However, the problem of sweatshops remains prominent in our globalized world. Tara J. Radin and Martin Calkins explore this problem in “The Struggle Against Sweatshops: Moving Toward Responsible Global Business” by breaking down their essay into two primary sections. The first describes the difficulties of both external and internal forces in permanently discarding sweatshops while the second division highlights the complexity behind any plausible
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Global Business Ethics-Nike’s Sweatshops Ann T. Dale MGT/216 Global Business Ethics-Nike’s Sweatshops Nike is a worldwide sports name in wear and equipment. So, why is Nike’s ethics in question? Has greed and publicity become their motto at any costs? Nike spends multimillion dollars a year hiring well-known athletes to advertise their products yet cannot seem to stay out of the media’s eye of their contracting or subcontracting techniques of their products to be built in third world countries
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violation is the breadth. The essay did not mention any interviews of the workers, nor opposing/alternate viewpoints of the supervisors. The problem is that Honduras is a third world country. They are “forced” to work ten hours a day, when the regular sweatshops force their workers to work at least twelve hours; workers might be willing and eagerly working for this company. We will never truly understand how they feel or what they think because no communication was made with the workers. And the only way
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child slavery, where children have no say in what work they do. From working in sweatshops to having low wages, child labor is a form of crime against humanity, and even a form of dehumanization. Child labor is why many people live in poverty today. This is why we need to enforce more laws on child labor. The sanitation that these kids are put in, is unsafe and the children are put at high risk. In “Child Labor and Sweatshops” by Charles Clark it says, “American shoppers may not know it, but many of the
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In the very first sentence of his 2006 essay, “Sweatshop Oppression”, published in Ohio State University’s student newspaper, the Lantern, Ravinsankar (as cited in Kirszner & Mandell, 2017, p.117-118) not only names his audience as “’poor’ college students” (Ravinsankar, 2006), he uses pathos with the words “we” and “us”, thereby identifying himself and his audience as the same, one group always in search of a good deal. The problem is that consumer’s demands for low prices results in corporations
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