Corporate Social Responsibility and Sustainability in Clothing Sector

BUSINESS ETHICS,
RESPONSIBILITY AND
SUSTAINABILITY

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
MAIN BODY...................................................................................................................................1
Examine and discuss key challenges based on corporate social responsibility and
sustainability in the clothing sector.............................................................................................1
Business Ethics and Clothing Industry.......................................................................................2
Key challenges relating to corporate responsibility and sustainability relating to The Clothing
Sector..........................................................................................................................................2
Analyse best practice within clothing sector with reference to ethical and moral issues...........5
Recommendations for businesses in clothing sector that make them more responsible by
taking into account global considerations...................................................................................7
CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................8
REFERENCES...............................................................................................................................9

INTRODUCTION
Business ethics mainly based on the values of honesty, integrity and equity. Therefore it
reflect a concern for society, environment and people and to encourage and promote ethical
behaviour in staff, superior etc. so that targets are attained on time in effective and efficient
manner. Responsibility in business defines the willingness to broader environmental
consideration within decision making and to be accountable for the impact of decisions.
Sustainability refers to a that aspect in which business take challenge to become accountable for
achieving common goals of society as a whole (Dziubaniuk and Nyholm, 2020). To complete
this report clothing sector is to be chosen. By taking clothing sector several aspects are to be
discussed in relation to business ethics, corporate social responsibility and sustainability.
Therefore it involves key challenges in corporate social responsibility and sustainability that
clothing sector face along with best practices that they take to overcome ethical and moral issues
that is crucial to enjoy long term sustainability within business industry. Further it demonstrate
the recommendations for business in clothing sector that helps businesses to be highly
responsible while trading in global considerations.
MAIN BODY
Examine and discuss key challenges based on corporate social responsibility and sustainability in
the clothing sector
Clothing sector has very complicated connection with many number of fields such as
manufacturing, production, advertising, retailing, transportation etc. By following these factors
clothing sector enjoy tremendous profits that helps in sustain in the corporate world without
engage and fall under the controversy of unethical behaviour. This industry is very wide in
nature that involves textiles industry, fashion industry, apparel retailers etc. Clothing industry is
that industry that is globally dispersed that involves all types of trade and industries that indulges
life chain of cloths (Laasch,2021). This particular sector associated with all the activities that
relate to cloths manufacturing till their selling to its ends customers. Therefore, due to
internationalisation of businesses clothing sector spread their demand in many countries even on
those places such as villages and small areas in city. There are various challenges which are
faced by clothing industry in related to corporate social responsibility and sustainability that are
demonstrated below:
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Business Ethics and Clothing Industry
Business ethics express a significant role in carry out several business activities. It is very
crucial for business under clothing sector to perform their task in ethical manner and take
decisions accordingly so that firm will grow and success in efficient manner that does not present
an unethical behaviour. However, clothing industry is one of the largest industry on global level
and for this it is important to play the role in ethical manner so that profitable results are attained
while fulfilling all their responsibilities towards welfare of society at large. In this companies
implement those practices that is not unethical (Singh and Gaur, 2020). Therefore within this
organisation mainly emphasis on act in accordance with code of conducts towards environment
and society.
Key challenges relating to corporate responsibility and sustainability relating to The
Clothing Sector
Corporate social responsibility termed as a duty of organisation towards welfare of
society to maximise the positive impact and eliminate the negative impact within society. It
represents as an ethical practice of business to fulfil welfare obligation for community. Corporate
social responsibility is a ethical term that does not bound to perform duty in favour of employees
or stakeholder of business enterprise but it perform broad range of obligations towards various
people, environment, government etc. Therefore, Corporate social responsibility is mainly
divided into two aspects in which first responsibility is towards the human beings (employees,
suppliers, shareholders, government, competitors and overall all society where they have their
presence in any manner) and second responsibility towards the environment ( protect the
environment so that it does not harm any living being in any way.
However, it is crucial that business enterprise perform their activities in such a manner
that fulfil all responsibilities and duties towards society and environment (Schlegelmilch and
Szőcs, 2020). These ethical practices helps business enterprise in several manner. Some of the
benefits are presented below in terms of clothing industry:
 This also helps in save the cost of company. For instance- when Burberry decide to make
changes based on their sustainability using minimum packaging of offerings or by
reusing resources so that cost of production of goods is to be reduced and helps in
generating more profitable results.
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