Families worked in terrible conditions, and were struggling to make ends meet. This called for organized labor, or labor unions. However, these labor unions proved to be rather unsuccessful in improving the position of workers. The unsuccessfulness of the labor unions occurred because of the initial failure
“Nike” The Sweatshop Debate Mgt 448 6-6-12 “Nike” The Sweatshop Debate “We’ve run the course – from establishing codes of conduct and pulling together an internal team to enforce it, to working external bodies to monitor factories and engaging with stakeholders” (Nikebiz, para. 2). The creation of this code of conduct came after serious allegations of using sweatshops with women and children working in hazardous conditions for less than minimum wage in overseas factories scattered across the globe to make their product. This paper uses the case study entitled, “Nike: The Sweatshop Debate,” to describe the legal, cultural, and ethical challenges that confront Nike’s global business. This paper will also determine the various roles that host governments have played as well as summarize the strategic and operational challenges that face global management for the Nike Corporation.
It concluded that the company lacked the proper screening to eliminate unqualified personnel. They also failed to properly train the new campus recruiter; Carl Robins. This lack of proper training was the direct
SIGIR audits have identified numerous weaknesses in U.S. agency management of contracts, grants, and cooperative agreements. Over the years, SIGIR audits have found that U.S. agencies: •employed insufficient numbers of trained contract and grants officers to provide necessary performance and financial oversight •rotated oversight officials often, resulting in loss of institutional knowledge of contracts • wrote contracts and grants without clear and measurable objectives •did not maintain comprehensive files to document contracting decisions •did not detect questionable costs charged to the U.S. government • did not provide the level of oversight required by sound management practices or internal policy manuals Police Training Weaknesses in DoS contract management for police training were detailed in a January 2010 SIGIR audit report. SIGIR found that INL lacked sufficient resources and controls to adequately manage DynCorp task orders. As a result, more than $2.5 billion in U.S. funds were vulnerable to waste and fraud. To illustrate, the In-country Contracting Officer’s Representatives, who were critical in overseeing DynCorp’s performance and expenditures under the current task order, did not perform adequate reviews and tests to ensure that:• the costs submitted by DynCorp were allowable under the contract/task order, supported by appropriate documentation, and correct • U.S. government property managed by DynCorp was adequately controlled • lease agreements negotiated on behalf of the U.S. government protected the U.S. government’s interests • the government received the services at the
The legal issue in this case are that he was denied a job because he had a hearing impairment which is a disability and they didn't hire him. As a resource manager of a large company like this, I would be very ashamed to say that I work for them and would feel really bad that the company acted like this and
Creating an independent agency, the National Labor Relations Board (NLRB), to enforce the act. (Budd, 121) Nike is slashing its international workforce. Nike has been criticized over the way they have treated its employees in foreign factories. They have been accused of employee abuse and unfair wages. Nike is not the only Western retailer to face criticism over how foreign workers work in poor conditions because these companies want big profits.
Labor Unions and working Conditions. Working conditions were part of the problems that Labor Unions took care of. At the beginning of the industrial Revolution there were not many laws made for working field, without laws or having being told how to have a company/factory kept, owners were too uncaring and paid a little attention to the cleanliness of the business but more to the profit that was being made. Also owners were not paying their employees enough money, and the factories were unsafe. The cause of the problem was that owners were selfish and very greedy.
As the employer, they do not trust their employees nor has no known knowledge of nonverbal communication. All of these barriers have an impact in the criminal justice organization. The barriers could be positive but also could have a negative effect in the workplace. You have to be ready to conquer any obstacle in the criminal justice field. You never know who or what you might come
The fact that the grading system is not clear for managers hampers a precise evaluation of all employees. Second, in addition to the lack of evaluation criteria, there is a problem of absence of assessment of the attributes of specific jobs and consequent alignment with the company’s strategic goals. There are no clear job descriptions, so besides not knowing well how managers should evaluate, they also do not know individual or team goals that should be
And in some factories the workers were forced to work all seven days of the week. They were also paid below the minimum and were also punished if they refused to work overtime. They wanted to reconstruct the signals being given out so that they could be sustainable as well as profitable. Discuss the meaning and implications of the statement by a Nike representative that “Consumers are not rewarding us for investments in improved social performance in supply chains.” The statement means that NIKE has spent lot of money to improve the welfare of its workers and to improve the working conditions in their factories. However, doing so has cost them a lot of money.