Business Ethics Case Studies
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- The Co-op
- Business Ethics Case Studies
- The Body Shop
- Launched the community Fair Trade as one of their first examples of fair trade
- Offer their supplies a predictable and regular income for security and confidence to develop their business
- Members of the Round-table on Sustainable Palm Oil (RSPO) they help protect natural biodiversity and workers rights.
- Nike
- Publicly shamed for its labour practices
- This badly tarnished the company's image and hurt sales
- Nestle
- Hundreds protested in front of bottling plants in California to deliver a petition demanding they stop bottling water
- At the time California was a drought stricken state and residents were forced to spend up to 10% of their income on bottled water
- CEO had no intentions of pulling the water production instead he wanted to increase it
- Nstle was involoved in another scandal when it offered free powdered milk to countries with high leveles of poverty. as babies were beig feed on the powdered milk the mothers stopped lactating and that's when nestle started to charge for the milk
- WaterGate
- 5 Burglars were caught in the Democratic National Committee offices in the Watergate hotel one of those caught was a former FBI and CIA agent
- President Nixon and his team tried to contain the damage by giving each of the burglars hush money
- Nixon tried to prevent the release of tapes connecting him and Johnson to the expansion of the Vietnam war which it contrary to what the public were being told.
- Mathew O'Donnel
- Blew the whistle on 'degenerated and mouldy' food at LIDL
- He is set to receive a cash payout to cover the loss of his job and the victimization he faced while at work
- Erin Brochovich
- Erin Brochovich had a car accident and was then hired by her attorney
- Whilst she was working she found medical records in with real estate files and decided to investigate
- When she investigated she found that a cover up of contaminated water that was causing the local community serious health issues
- The Body Shop
- No shareholders owned by over 6 million consumers
- Support universal declaration of human rights, promote fairtrade, sound sourcing code of conduct, living eages, end child labour and reasonable working hours and overtime
- the group set out social and sustainable goals in its ethical plans
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