Sweatshops: Ethics and Showing Respect for Human Values Globally we are experiencing a calamity with millions of people facing unemployment, hunger, and poverty. Global ethics is extremely important in that values, morality, and right from wrong, is upheld and enforced in the business world. According to Greenberg and Baron (2010) there are three controlling ideologies of global ethics (p.59). The first principle of global ethics is showing respect for core human values. For a business or company to be “ethical,” the managers of that business must be guided by their moral compass (Greenberg & Baron, 2010, p. 60). The moral compass of a business along with its integrity is imperative to that businesses success. A moral compass is the company’s capability to magistrate what is right and wrong and act accordingly to those decisions. A company has the ethical responsibility to provide a clean and safe workplace for their employees.
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Those who are interested in creating a world in which child labor and sweatshops don’t exist take certain steps in order to ensure that they are not supporting them. One way in which this can be done is by buying local or union-made products. If consumers are not supporting these entities, then they can not afford to stay in business. Global ethics and showing respect for the core values of human beings are being violated with the use of sweatshops. Sweatshops are not the answer in alleviating poverty. According to the article, 11 Facts About Sweatshops, “A study showed that doubling the salary of sweatshop workers would only increase the consumer cost of an item by 1.8%, while consumers would be willing to pay 15% more to know a product did not come from a sweatshop.” This goes to show that the ethics and values of those working in the hazardous conditions of sweatshops are important to those living in the United States and should be
Those who are interested in creating a world in which child labor and sweatshops don’t exist take certain steps in order to ensure that they are not supporting them. One way in which this can be done is by buying local or union-made products. If consumers are not supporting these entities, then they can not afford to stay in business. Global ethics and showing respect for the core values of human beings are being violated with the use of sweatshops. Sweatshops are not the answer in alleviating poverty. According to the article, 11 Facts About Sweatshops, “A study showed that doubling the salary of sweatshop workers would only increase the consumer cost of an item by 1.8%, while consumers would be willing to pay 15% more to know a product did not come from a sweatshop.” This goes to show that the ethics and values of those working in the hazardous conditions of sweatshops are important to those living in the United States and should be