Globalization and Child Labor: Ethical Issues

1. Watch the video segment titled "Business Problems/Ethics." How does the
globalization of business affect how you would analyze the ethical issues
surrounding the use of child labor around the world?
Globalisation has a key role to play in the exploitation of child labour around the world,
especially in the third world countries. Most of the manufacturing outlets are being set up in
the less developed countries like Bangladesh and Africa, to reap the advantage of cheap
labour available there (Bulajic & Domazet, 2012). The companies are able to reduce the costs
of their manufacturing, but on the other hand, it is creating jobs for children in these
countries, as they come for a cheap price and also because their parent make them work there
to get money to feed their families. (Page, 2016) Most of the time they work in inhumane
conditions and are not given breaks in between. Thus, their health deteriorates, and we are not
taking into account the lost opportunity of education, as they had forego it to work in the
factories. Thus, globalisation comes with the ethical issue of child exploitation.
2. Watch the video segments titled "Temptations vs. Ethical Dilemmas" and
"Resolution Principles." Discuss the difference between a temptation and an
ethical dilemma in the context of an experience you have had, and describe how
you resolved the matter.
Temptations are the real demarcation between right or wrong. There is no justification for
choosing a wrong decision. In ethical dilemma, the right choice does not seem to be too
obvious and there are two probable choices that a person has to choose from, and both might
seem right to him. The confusion here is about two conflicting ethics or moral values held by
the person. An incident which I recall during my schooldays wherein I was supposed to
submit a project, and the deadline had approached. I got tempted to use the project submitted
by my brother three years back, but doing so would have been wrong. This is a classic
example of temptation. With better sense prevailing, I decided to take help of my brother who
had done similar projects in the past and complete the project in a night’s time.
Another incident happened recently when I spotted one of my friend with a girl who was
dating another friend of mine at the same time. I was confused as to what to do in such a
scenario. Should I tell the other friend that his girlfriend was cheating on him or should I
warn the friend that the girl with whom he was on a date was already in a relationship with
someone else. This is a classic case of ethical dilemma. In both the scenario I will be going to