Weekly Log on Corporate Social Responsibility, Cross-Cultural Communication, Negotiation and Leadership Models

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Week 3.
One of the most reputed baby food company, Nestle operates in the Asian country
Thailand. This company has initiated CSR policy of including the local workers in the
production department. The company gives needed training to these local people and reduces
unemployment it in the market. However the company has faced problem when the incident
of exploitation of these local labours came into focus (Kelly, 2016).
This approach of doing business is not acceptable because this infringes the labour
law internally as well as nationally. Corporate social responsibility has started to play an
important part in the successful operation of the corporation in this Global Business scenario.
The more the companies are focused on doing their social responsibilities towards the
stakeholders by satisfying them economically, socially and politically (Kopnina 2017). With
changing laws in the market the Companies Act to change their priorities so that they can and
ensure their sustainable growth. In this respect the companies face various issues regarding
CSR. One of them is providing positive working condition to the human resource. The
companies try to ensure that they give the best possible employment condition based on the
application of statutory provisions and International Labour standards. This act of Nestle has
violated the trade union rights and supported evolution of forced labour in the workplace.
References:
Kelly, A. (2016). Nestlé admits slavery in Thailand while fighting child labour lawsuit in
Ivory Coast. [online] the Guardian. Available at: https://www.theguardian.com/sustainable-
business/2016/feb/01/nestle-slavery-thailand-fighting-child-labour-lawsuit-ivory-coast
[Accessed 16 Aug. 2019].

WEEKLY LOG2
Kopnina, H., 2017. Sustainability: New strategic thinking for business. Environment,
Development and Sustainability, 19(1), pp.27-43.
Week 4.
From these two videos it is clear that the one of the largest International technology
Company Apple Inc. is indulging in direct exploitation of the workers in China. It is very
clear that the population of China is being used harshly by the management of this
multinational American technology company through who eats biggest contract
manufacturers Foxconn. Foxconn has its branch in in the third largest city of China that is
Shenzhen. In this city e the largest buildings have workers who mainly are in the production
team of Apple’s products. In this teams there are child labours who do not possess licence to
work in that country or for that matter in any country of the world. In addition to this the
labours of China work for lowest wages and for a long time. This is purely exploitation of
labour which is leading the young people of this country to you choose the path of suicide. It
is the stress of work and dissatisfaction which is pushing these young generation to commit
suicide.
This incident of employee exploitation in China by Apple is scene from the cultural
dimension of half stud. The power distance dimension which is very strict in the Chinese
society can be hold responsible for this situation. China ranks 80% in this power distance
dimension which believes that the inequality among people are acceptable (Beugelsdijk,
Kostova and Roth 2017). Here the subordinate except the orders from their superiors and
their relationship tends to be polarized. The subordinates cannot defend against the power
abuse by the superiors. This is why the powerful brand has exploited so much labour from the
cheap workers of China.

WEEKLY LOG3
According to the Globe dimensions of culture this can be associated with the self-
protective leadership styles where the leaders can do anything to protect themselves (De
Mooij 2015). One of the videos has mentioned that Apple is hiding its harsh management
style behind the operation of Foxconn. All the sufferings and exploitation are known to Apple
but it is not taking any initiative to end this process. There is a wage gap between the Chinese
workers and the American workers where the latter one get more monetary support by their
companies then the former ones. In this case Apple may have increased wages to these
workers in China but it is not up to the mark. In order to protect the reputation the CEO of
Apple has utilised self-protective leadership style and does not allow other stakeholders to
know about this unethical behaviour.
References:
Beugelsdijk, S., Kostova, T. and Roth, K., 2017. An overview of Hofstede-inspired country-
level culture research in international business since 2006. Journal of International Business
Studies, 48(1), pp.30-47.
De Mooij, M., 2015. Cross-cultural research in international marketing: clearing up some of
the confusion. International Marketing Review, 32(6), pp.646-662.
Week 5.
Link: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=zQvqDv4vbEg
The YouTube video by Erin Meyer has pointed out that difference in National culture
is seen to be reflecting in the organisational culture also. She has shared her own experience
while communicating with some employees from a Japanese organisation. The speaker has a
neutral cultural background where there is no problem in communicating with managers by