Ethical Issues in Australian Business

This assignment delves into the ethical dilemmas confronting Australian businesses. It examines specific cases involving 7-Eleven, Holden, Coca-Cola, workplace issues, corporate corruption, and the black economy. Students are tasked with analyzing these cases, identifying ethical violations, evaluating their consequences, and proposing potential solutions to mitigate future ethical misconduct in the Australian business landscape.

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Sustainable International Business Futures
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Answer 1:
Slide 1:
The term Black International Business is a business approach that represents terrorism,
discrimination, human and drug trafficking in a nation. Bribe is also a big issue in Australia that
diminishes the change of a nation’s growth (Abc.net.au 2017).
Slide 2:
In Australia, the rate of the drug trafficking increases over the last decade with two spikes
in weight. Australian people are addicted towards drugs and unethical process of trafficking
arises (Smh.com.au 2017).
Slide 3:
Corruption is another bid dilemma and even the politicians also make fake promises to
gain their votes. The adversity arises more when the police also become corrupted an most of the
cases remain un-substantiated (Smh.com.au 2017).
Slide 4:
The rate of terrorism in Australia also increases and people suffer from the adversity.
Loss of human life, employment and mental peace are some other consequences of terrorism
(Abc.net.au 2017).

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Answer 2:
Slide 5:
Westpac is the most ethical business in Australia that maintains transparency,
accountability and proper responsibility (Theaustralian.com.au 2017). Moreover, this company
also offers citizenship for their stakeholders in terms of freedom of rights, appropriate human
rights and job responsibilities.
Slide 6:
One of the leading organizations Coca-Cola Amatil is a low ethical company that is legal
but is morally questionable (Han., 2017). The company claims that the Coca-Cola Life is low in
sugar and calorie but experts suggests that lowering such a lower level sugar does not affects
much in the overall drink (Theaustralian.com.au 2017).
Slide 7:
Moreover, Holden cars are in the list of illegal with high moral ground. The company’s
morale is that they desire to present new advanced technology but due to poor operation
operations, they have to cease most of their business operations especially they have to fire most
of the employees (Griffiths 2017).
Slide 8:
In the list of both morally and legally inappropriate Australian company, seven eleven top
the list. They hired college students from other nation and do not pay them on time. The delay in

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payments is too long that students leave the pay and return to their respective nation (Ferguson
and Danckert 2017).
Answer 3:
Slide 9:
After assessing all the taxonomy of business ethics, it can be said that in Australian
organization, maximum companies are legal but they do not follow all the business morale
ethically (Ferguson and Danckert 2017). Mostly, not all companies offer diversi0ty management
and most of them are underpaid.
Slide 10:
Sexual harassment is a big issue in Australian organization and some females are also
harasses in front of many employees. Even if the women file a case against the company, they
usually lose their employment without pay (Humanrights.gov.au 2017).
Slide 11:
Workplace discrimination is major issue in Australia. Many employees are migrants and
belong from other nation. In such cases, discrimination based on their traditions, beliefs and
language is a common issue (Humanrights.gov.au 2017).
Slide 12:
Workplace safety is also not properly followed in many Australian organizations. In
some cases, the low-wage workers does not offered by any medical insurance and site protection
equipments (John Wilson 2017).

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Slide 13:
Racial discrimination is the major reason that employee underperforms and the overall
performance of the company diminishes. Australian employees often bully them and provide
with lower facility compared to their nation’s employee (Humanrights.gov.au 2017).
Slide 14:
Gender equality is another issue that is followed in most of the Australian organization
which is not ethical. Taken for examples, pregnant women are discriminated and forced to leave
the job as they need more holidays (Esther Han 2017).

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Answer 4:
Slide 15:
Thus, in order to improve the business ethics in workplace, the government of Australia
should formulate new legislations in favor of the victims and against bullying so that they can get
equal facilities and opportunities.
Slide 16:
The government and each individual organization should also develop a cycle of anti-
corruption trends so that they business trends can be maintained. This process can also be
incorporate by law reforms, disclosure obligations and third-party verification.
Slide 17:
Providing equal human rights is another aspect that government and the organization
collaboratively can implement in workplace. All the employees should be recruited based on
their talent and not on favoritism and the different perspective of all the employees should be
respected.
Slide 18:
Designing training program can also be implemented by the government and
organization. This will improve the human awareness regarding human and drug trafficking and
other business ethics.
Slide 19:

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The organization can also implement social corporate responsibility so that a good
business reputation can be maintained in the community.
Slide 20:
Lastly, formulation of an in-house decision making committee will help all the individual
organization to assess the existing business to maintain their ethics both legally and morally.

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