The Case of Supply Chain Ignorance Assignment
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THE CASE OF SUPPLYCHAIN IGNORANCE
TABLE OF CONTENTSINTRODUCTION ..........................................................................................................................1PART 1 ...........................................................................................................................................1A. Ethical dimensions identified from the case study ................................................................1B. Ethical theories ......................................................................................................................4PART 2............................................................................................................................................6Discuss what make an ethical leader and how you would, as an ethical manager, manage yourbusiness and/or others to a high ethical standard. ......................................................................7CONCLUSION ...............................................................................................................................9REFERENCES .............................................................................................................................10
INTRODUCTION The ethical management is defined as the strategy which establishes an alignmentbetween legal regulations, economic goals and ethical expectations which are imposed byvarious norms. The ethics are applied on behaviour of individuals as well as on differentoperational procedures followed by the business. The ethics in business practices ensures that therights of all individuals are protected and business activities are performed with approved legaland social constraints (Bailey and et.al., 2018). Business ethics refers to valid and acceptablepolicies and methods on issues such as discrimination, governance, corporate socialresponsibility and insider trading. The report will analyse the ethical management practices in given case study of ASOS.The organisation is one of the well known cosmetic and online retailers providing its servicesonline. The organisation supplies its goods to more than 200 countries. However, there havebeen reports indicating the unethical practices such as exploitation of the labours andengagement of child labours in supply chain of the company. The report will discuss the variousethical dimensions of the matter and their impact on the overall business performance. It willalso analyse the implementation of various ethical theories in the given case study of ASOS.Further the study will describe the role of leaders in implementing ethical standards in businessand significance of individual ethics in influencing the compliance and ethical practices of theorganisation. PART 1 A. Ethical dimensions identified from the case study In the supply chain management of ASOS it is analysed that several ethicalconsiderations are violated. Despite bringing such issues in notice the organisation is notconcerned to take the responsibility. The child labour is strictly not allowed but in the Turkishfactory children were forced to work for several hours and were not able to go even schools. Theworking conditions in which they were working were also not safe. Along with the children mostof the workers in factory belongs to refugees (Child Workers Found In Clothing Supply Chain:ASOS, Marks & Spencer Implicated, 2016). Thus, in the name of providing support to theseneedy people they are exploited by means of low wages, unsafe working conditions. 1
If the safety or health of these people is affected then also authorities do not have anyconcern and they simply replace these employees by the other employees leaving them incondition to starve or die. The employees are the part of society and without their contributionsuccess of business cannot be achieved (Salehi and Baboli, 2017). However, ASOS is not muchconcerned regarding the safety of these employees. Instead, the organisation chooses to shake off the responsibility that these exploitedworkers were hired by the supplier without acknowledgement of ASOS. However, as the supplychain comes under the authority of organisation it is the responsibility of ASOS to ensure thatethical practices are not compromised within its entire supply chain. With the negligence to theseethical practices not only affected labourers are influenced but other stakeholders are alsoaffected. The customers who prefer the services of ASOS do not find it suitable to purchaseservices which are developed by the exploitation of children and refugees. The negative impacton the brand image of ASOS through such events can also create negative impact on theinvestors and other suppliers. It can be harmful for the future growth plan of the organisation. It can create negative impression among employees. The human resources of thecompany may believe that organisation does not value their safety and thus their performanceand dedication may reduce (Lefkowitz, 2017). The discussed issues are important ethicalquestions because along with the legal liabilities it is the social responsibility also that childwelfare and rights are protected. On the grounds of humanity also the children must not beemployed in any such extreme and hard working conditions. As per the given case scenario, itcan be concluded that business groups aims at only profit making. Their focus is to ensure thecontinuous supply chain management without bothering about the ethical aspects. The businessplays a critical role in society. They provide employment, services and products to people as wellas establish a model that how people can manage their work and can achieve success. The ethical choices selected by ASOS greatly affect the performance of company. Forinstance when company paid less attention to the monitoring of its supply chain then unethicalpractices remained in dark and ASOS did not get any chance to correct these situations.However, if there were strict regulations for ethical management practices within company then2
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