Illustrate what are the examples around you from your observation or read where companies that act in irresponsible manner towards the society/stakeholders. Give examples?
1. 3. ILLUSTRATE WHAT ARE THE EXAMPLES
AROUND YOU FROM YOUR OBSERVATION OR
READ WHERE COMPANIES THAT ACT IN
IRRESPONSIBLE MANNER TOWARDS THE
SOCIETY/STAKEHOLDERS. GIVE EXAMPLES?
2. A. Wal-Mart
Often forced to work
overtime for zero pay.
Deny its workers basic
rights, spending an
enormous amount of time and
money keeping unions out
including: $7,000 anti-union
camera packages, $30,000
undercover spy vans,
$100,000 24-hour anti-union
hotlines and a $7,000,000
rapid response team with a
corporate jet.
Pushes its suppliers to go
lower and lower on their
wholesale prices.
Broken one environmental
law:
Fined for violating new
standards for stormwater
3. B. ExxonMobil
Well-known
environmental offense.
Ranked sixth on the
Toxic 100 list of US
corporate air polluters.
In 2001, ExxonMobil target
of a lawsuit by a human
rights group that accused
the company of actively
abetting human rights
abuses including torture,
rape and killings in
Indonesia.
The case is still pending
until now (2009).
4. C. Nestle
Most of the cocoa used in
Nestle's products comes from
the Ivory Coast, a country known
for using illegal and forced
child labor in the production of
this commodity.
Aggressive marketing
campaigns for their baby
formula in developing and poor
nations:
Company markets its formula
under false pretenses.
Millions of liters of the substance
were found to be contaminated
with harmful chemicals.
Workers protest absurdly low
wages and unsafe working
conditions, they're simply fired
and replaced with new workers.