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Globalization is generally understood as the removal of economic barriers to trade among nations, thereby, allowing the freer movements of goods, services, products, capital, knowledge, foreign investments, and people (Soros, 2002; Balakrishnan, 2003; Fischer, 2003).... ultinational corporations (MNCs) is generally understood as a company that has its headquarter in one country (which is the home country), and which operates in at least one foreign (host) country (Wilkins, 1991, p 53)....
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Many firms have merged with foreign businesses to make it easier to sell in foreign markets.... Multinationals get in touch with new communities in the global market by building production factories in other countries, besides, their home country.... If we talk about China alone, great amount of foreign investment has entered their economy with foreign-funded firms increasing from a number of 470,000 to over 500,000 in just a span of two years, from 2004 to 2006....
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Instead of improving the working conditions in its manufacturing plants the company spends more on marketing by using faces of high profile celebrities such as Michael Jordan to popularize its brand and attract customers (Mujtaba et al.... Nike has been criticized for producing highly expensive products by giving very low wages and poor working conditions to its workers.... Social activists called on the customers to boycott Nike products until necessary actions were taken by the firm to improve the working conditions of the workers all over the world, especially in Asia (Mesarosch, pg....
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Whenever people from diverse backgrounds get together under different conditions to work for a same company, there is high chance of a cultural shock and in order to save a workplace from being adversely affected as a result of it, the managers should play an active role in helping their employees overcome their biases and understand each other's cultural beliefs.... The managers in an attempt to save their business from falling prey to mismanaged workforce issues should invest more time in applying the proper diversity and inclusion management techniques as research claims that it not only enhances the company's market share, but also creates “a satisfied diverse customer base by relating to people from different backgrounds” (Andrade 2010)....
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Dr Charles Hodgetts, head of the Public Health and Housing section of the COC, argued that temporary shack towns on the outskirts of cities were quickly becoming the 'overcrowded permanent homes of a foreign population -- hot beds of parasitic and communicable diseases and breeders of vice and inequity.... Struthers, a prominent public health official, expressed reformers' concerns succinctly: 'Poor housing conditions, lack of light and ventilation, uncleanliness, ignorance of proper care of the body and of the laws of health, unwholesome and improper food and drink, the prevalence of venereal and other diseases are rapidly producing a degenerate race....
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There are four hundred million children working throughout the world today.... Whether a child is being paid or is working in or for the family, does not alter the fact that she may be engaged in labor.... This report "Child Labour and nike's Views on it" indicates that there are multiple reasons for the existence of child labor.... There are many aspects of the child labor problem that can and should be targeted without regard to economic considerations....
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Nike should be held ethically responsible for the working conditions in foreign factories of subcontractors.... The education of third world countries and corporate stakeholders on economic viability, human rights, and working conditions can have a tremendous effect on the standards.... This paper "International Business: Nike" discusses how to monitor international factories to ensure that they are consistent with the International Labor Organization's outlined recommendations, as well as understand that individual country laws do not always reflect a concern....
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In the paper 'The Ethical Standards of Nike' the author discusses Nike's ethical responsibility for the working conditions in foreign factories of subcontractors.... Nike should be held ethically responsible for the working conditions in foreign factories of subcontractors.... The author states that Nike, being a multi-billion dollar per year industry, can certainly afford to enhance the living and working conditions of its laborers abroad.... Nike must force subcontracted factories and owned factories to the US standards of safety, overtime, health and working conditions....
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