Introduction
The case under considerations discloses ethical issues and compliance challenges undergone by the importing companies who abuse human rights of the workers from the developing countries. To eliminate this problem, the companies sourcing goods from Bangladesh, Honduras, Cambodia, Korea and other less-developed countries from Asia, Africa, and Latin America have been subject to strict conduct audits to better expertise of working conditions.
Case analysis
While assessing the case, the author sheds light on workplace conditions as well as employees’ safety standards practiced in the supplier factories and exemplifies particular cases of ethical and legal misconduct in China, and other poor countries.
Though the companies sourcing good from foreign manufactures are been heavily monitored, there were still frequent cases of mistreating the employees despite the growing awareness of social and cultural diversities as well as discrimination policies bans established in the globalized community. In response of negligence and misconduct, the enhancement of ethical conduct and compliance monitoring is indispensible to improve the situation and provide new schemes of development.
Beside the newly established measures, some international companies, such as Nike, Wall Mart, and General Motors have introduced their specific programs encouraging the control of quality and safety standards at the working place. Specifically, the monitoring system suggested by Nike consists in SHAPE inspections, M-Audits, and compliance rating systems.
The company has also worked out a specific code of conduct at the workplace outlining the major standards of rules and principles established within the organization. In addition, the punishment systems have also been introduced to impose more responsibilities on the employers. Similarly to Nike, Wall Mart has also presented its compliance strategies to meet the ethical standards and upgrade the employed environment.
While representing different systems and measures taken by the world known organizations, the author attempts to disclose the contemporary problems, challenges, and threats existing at the workplace.
More importantly, the author has successfully managed to highlight concrete cases and situations when ethical and quality standards were severely violated, particularly in the case with less developed countries. Particular attention has been paid to the Chinese companies where employees’ mistreatment has reached the highest level.
The case presents a number of tables, charts, and schemes that provide a clearer picture of the present situation in the sphere of organizational and human resources management.
These tables also contribute to better understanding of the most challenging issues that still need to be solved. Strength of the case study lies in author’s prompt analysis of how the globalization process influenced the improvement of quality standards in terms of employees’ treatment, including code of conduct development, increasing salaries and wages, and improving the overall organizational structure.
Conclusion
In general, the case provides a great deal of information about the problem that the developing economies encounter while dealing with respectable importing companies that abuse their authority and higher social and economical status.
The importance of the case also consists in disclosing existing programs and systems controlling compliance of the established codes of conduct. The author attains much significance to the problem of labor standards as well as to the protection of human rights irrespective of social, national, and economic affiliation. Finally, major focus is made on factual information presenting evidence of legal and ethical misconduct.