Business Ethics Report: CSR and Ethical Issues in the Fashion Industry

This report provides an in-depth analysis of the business ethics presented in the Blood, Sweat, and T-shirts documentary series. It explores the ethical issues within the fashion industry, focusing on the concept of Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) and relevant ethical theories. The report examines the working conditions and treatment of garment workers, highlighting potential exploitation and unethical practices. It discusses the Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) and its role in promoting ethical trade, along with the importance of consumer awareness regarding ethical shopping. The analysis includes a review of CSR strategies and how they can be effectively implemented by organizations. The report also delves into various ethical theories, such as Utilitarianism and Deontology, to provide a framework for evaluating the moral implications of business decisions. The conclusion emphasizes the vulnerability of workers due to their lack of education and the need for ethical conduct in the fashion industry.

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Executive Summary
In this report, the Blood, sweat and the T shirt organisation has been explained elaborately.
The Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) of the Sweat, Blood and the T shirts will be
explained considering its ethical theories even.

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Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Ethical issues..............................................................................................................................3
Corporate Social Responsibility.................................................................................................4
Ethical theory.............................................................................................................................4
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................5
Reference....................................................................................................................................6

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Introduction
The Blood, Sweat and T-shirts is a documentary series that was first broadcasted in
2008 on BBC. The series was followed by six of the fashion consumers from British and
were aged between 20-24. The organisers and the team member of the Blood, Sweat and T-
shirts have travelled to India, lived here, and tried to understand the workplace environment.
They noted the workplace, the workers and how they made clothes which are destined for the
sale in the various British high street stores. In this report, the various perspectives of this
organisation will be explained keeping in mind the corporate social responsibility. This series
of the Blood, sweat and T shirts is basically a set up on the Indian environment and the
workers who are amongst the social backward people. This series was nominated the best
factual series in its category in the 2009 BAFTA Television awards (Hartman, DesJardins&
MacDonald, 2014). In this report the various ethical issues, corporate social responsibility
and the ethical theory related to this Blood, Sweat and T shirt organisation will be explained.
Ethical issues
The Ethical Trading Initiative (ETI) is a new guideline that provides hints and
guidelines that provides tips and hints that helps to promote the ethical trade in the fashions
industry. There is a need to create more and more people who are concerned about the
different ways who can make their clothes (DesJardins& McCall, 2014). The consumers want
to shop ethnically who are not sure of the different things they do. The ethical trade is
regarded as the complex area that needs to show some of the new guidelines that is a simple
step that might take everyone in the ranging steps. There is a need to know the ethical pest
that the people need to know and it is OK about about it. There is a need to shop ethically that
they are not sure of what exactly to be done. The ethical trade is a complex one that is a new
one that shows that there are some of the simple steps that need to be taken on the various
ranging checking that have the ETI as it’s the member of the company. The ETI is a member
of the company that has a sign up to that that relates to asking the various tough questions
related to the fashion retailers.

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Corporate Social Responsibility
The CSR or the corporate social responsibility is considered as a management system
where the company integrates with various environmental concerns that help in their business
operations and making their interactions with the various stakeholders (DesJardins & McCall,
2014). The business strategy and the social responsibility of the various six and young addicts
in the world of fashion has an experience of their own. They are making clothes for the high
street people in Britain and in the various parts of the mills and their cotton belts in the mills
of the India that has their clothes stitched in their cramped back room (Crane& Matten,2016).
There is also a need to have cramped back rooms along with the sewing machine as their next
sleeping machine that needs to showcase the changes that relates to their attitudes in the cut
piece pricing level of the clothing. The Blurb from the reality show of BBC makes a
discovery of the blog in an interesting way (Weiss, 2014). The CSR strategy is quite strong
of the Blood Sweat and T shirts organisation and it tries to maintain every possible way that
will make it prosper more in the future days. The CSR initiative is based on the three major
activity of any broadcasting organization that is the planning, executing and the monitoring.
Using these three main ways any organisation can reach its goal of delivering the best to their
customers. There is a need to make a good CSR strategy that will eventually help the
company to bring out its best to the customers (Trevino& Nelson, 2016).
Ethical theory
The ethical theory is based on the various ways that has a leading case study of the
discussion that needs to provide guideline to the various steps of the discussion in the case
study. There are various moral theory that acts as the tool that might help an individual to
think logically on several issues (Chell et al. 2016). There is a need to arrive at a certain point
in the decision that might be defended in a rational way. The ethical theory is termed as the
mechanism for assessing the various particular actions that might be ruled and to be more
precise there is need to make an individual feel and arrive at a certain levels (Ferrell&
Fraedrich, 2015). The various moral theories that can be ranged are from the Utilitarianism
that has their base on what is called the “morally right” on the consequences of several
actions. The various theories related to deontological, has a base concepts of what is
considered “morally right” based on the laws that is universally accepted that might exist
outside of a specific situation. These are the certain approaches that differ significantly, from
all the moral theories have two things in common (Armstrong et al. 2015).

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In case of the moral theory there is a need to be helpful, that should provide one with
the various sources of the moral values (reasons behind why we should be moral), and it
should provide a complete framework or strategy for the ranks in the moral norms when there
is a confrontation of the dilemma. Some of the organizations misuse the poor workers for the
sake of work and they do not even bother to pay them their right (Ferrell & Fraedrich, 2015).
The ethical theory for every organization is almost the same that includes not exploiting the
workers. This must be kept in mind because the workers are poor in most cases and mostly
their ignorance is taken as an advantage. The issues of the sustainability and labour to the
various frequencies of the various debates and the seasons around the world of the ethical
issues can easily turn judgmental. The morality is the objective of the ethics that has the
philosophical theory of the different types that may be compared with one another. The
Blood, Sweat and T shirt is one of the major web series that bring light upon the various
segments of the difficulty that are faced by the poor workers (Hartman, DesJardins &
MacDonald, 2014). The workers could easily be exploited just because mostly they are
uneducated and the owners treat this as an advantage. The behavior that has been attributed to
the various social comparisons explains that the consumers are acting as the self defence that
has not been viewed by the inferior to the ethical consumers. They usually do not care about
the different ethical issues that have been reminded as not being acted upon. Generally, in
accordance to those values while the rest feel sorry about themselves and how they lash out
some of them who were not made to feel in that way to be precise (Hoffman, Frederick &
Schwartz, 2014).
Conclusion
From this report, the various segments of this report that is based primarily on the
business ethics of the Blood, Sweat and T shirts have been explained. The ethical theory
along with the corporate social responsibility has been explained. The various issues on the
grounds of the ethical norms have been discussed. It can be easily concluded that the poor
workers who are working for the big organizational company are easily exploited because of
their ignorance and are often cheated upon in terms of the payments.

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