Tuesday, January 11, 2011

Business Reponsibility/Social Ethics Reflection

I agree with “The Corporation” video. I feel that CEOs or other people that manage big companies should be more aware of how they treat their employees and the community and how things are working in their companies. Businesses are really drawn into making profit to the degree that they forget their business ethics. For example, in the video “The Corporation” it displayed the poor conditions of Nike factories, and how terribly they treat their workers. The CEO of Nike was clueless about how awful they treated the company. Another terrible thing companies don’t realize that things they do will also harm the community. For example, supermarkets provide plastic shopping bags for costumers; they don’t realize plastic bags are harmful towards the environment. It consumes a lot of energy and causes air pollution. Also, these bags are littered everywhere and they manage to travel to the sea where sea animals consume it. Thankfully, companies are starting to charge people 5 cents on plastic bags, and encouraged to use reusable bags. In conclusion, I believe companies that are more aware of their business responsibility may influence other companies to do the right thing.

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