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Business Ethics 10 COMPARATIVE BUSINESS ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Students Name Course Name India Tea Industry

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According to the article done by The Economic times, Assam tea industry, located in the northeast India is the largest tea producer in the country; boasting of supplying tea to world’s top brands such as the popular Britain’s Twinning and Tetley as per Davvetas and Diamantopoulos (2016). The tea industry has been accused on several occasions of not improving the welfare of the workers and the surrounding environment and society, a fact that violets the business or corporate ethics (Baruah

Business Ethics 10 COMPARATIVE BUSINESS ETHICS AND SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY Students Name Course Name India Tea Industry

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Business Ethics 2IntroductionIndian tea workers work and live in unconducive environment. The workers in the Assam’s tea industry are mostly women and are paid far below the minimum wage requirement in the industry. According to the article done by The Economic times, Assam tea industry, located in the northeast India is the largest tea producer in the country; boasting of supplying tea to world’s top brands such as the popular Britain’s Twinning and Tetley as per Davvetas and Diamantopoulos (2016). The tea industry has been accused on several occasions of not improving the welfare of the workers and the surrounding environment and society, a fact that violets the business or corporate ethics (Baruah 2013). According to Hsieh (2017), business or corporate ethics are the basic principles and organizational standards, norms and values that govern the behavior and decisions of individuals in an organization on day to today basis. Ethics reflects the philosophy of the corporation, which determine the main purpose of the firm, company or corporation. These ethics tend to control various areas of the operations of the company such as the business or corporate governance, corporate social responsibility, corporate citizenship, and leadershipThe industry is legally mandated to provide several services to the workers such as housing, subsidized food, toilets, health facilities, and schools to at least cover for the low wages.Contrarily, the workers live in pathetic conditions under leaking roofs, no toilets nor health facilities (Hsieh 2017). They are sometimes forced to go for long calls in the bushes and seek medical services from other expensive health centers; a move that forces them into excessive overtime or bonded labor in order to be able to provide family needs. Several attempts by the workers to make the management improve their living and working conditions have been futile;
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Business Ethics 3the management notes the registered complaints but do not take any action, according to one worker.As illustrated in the article, Assam’s tea industry has been on the fore front in exploitativecases such as workers exploitation. The tea giant has been accused of paying low wages, poor working conditions and not being keen on the health and welfare of their workers (Baruah 2013).A research done in one of the local hospital in Assam area indicates that the main source of the deaths that occur in the area is labeled as Assam tea estate. The patients from the tea estate, mostly women suffer from acute anemia and high pressure. Dutta & Bahadur (2016) explained that doctors there allege that the tea garden community is even more vulnerable to maternal deaths due to the frail economic conditions, the workers cannot afford nutritious foods and good healthcare due the peanuts they earn. Some workers who consider themselves lucky to have permanent job work for nine hour picking tea leaves with bamboo baskets trapped on her back the whole day and get paid Rs1300 for 12 days work. Such workers consider themselves better as they are assured of their wages and continuous work throughout the year. As illustrated by Basole, Basu, and Bhattacharya (2015), Assam uses a good percentage of temporary workers who are sometimes not sure if their wages would be paid. The exploitation in the tea estate is dated back to many years ago but there has never been any improvement.Assam tea industry being the largest tea producer in India supplying the products to someof the tea brands in the world should appreciate its workers through better working and living
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