International Business

Presentation on

Nike The sweatshop

Debate

Submitted To
Name of Teacher : Mr. Asif Mahbub Karim
Associate Professor
Proctor & Chairman
Dept. of Business Administration
Port City International University

Submitted By

Name of Group:

Name of Students:

1.Mohammad Shafaet Karim, ID No : 00905439

2.Rahul Chandra Nath, ID NO : 00905451

3.Rabeya Akter, ID No : 00905469

4.Razia Sultana, ID No : 00905452

Program: MBA

Batch: 9

Q.1 Should Nike be responsible for the

working
condition at their subcontractors
factories ?
Yes, Nike should be responsible and accountable
for working conditions in foreign factories.

Every part of the supply chain is partially responsible for the

entire supply chain

Force subcontractor to make sure that workers get at least

minimum wages

Influence its subcontractors to improve their working conditions

Immoral to use child labor to maximize profit

Q.2 How could Nike deal with the

negative publicity of the case study ?
As a global company Nike could take many
steps to deal with negative publicity.
Some steps are :

Initial reaction to ignore negative publicity

Reasoned that they did not own the factories

Try to sway attention among their competitors

To address the concerns of the public directly

Q.3 Do you think Nike should change

their current policy to deal with such
problems?
Yes, Nike should change their current policy
because their policies are very older and poor.
For this purpose Nike should do :

Make changes in their current policies by a building an

organization culture

Should increase the wages of its workers

Should also continue to improve the working place

Fulfil its social responsibility and start improving the policies

Q.4 If sweatshops are a global problem

what might be a global solution to this
problem?
The firms are searching for low cost
subcontractors in every corner of the world. So
the sweatshops are a world problem.
The possible solutions are :

Change or at least modify the conditions

Ensuring that suppliers are providing proper safety , workers rights

with minimum age and minimum wages

Create an international organization with the authority to require

companies to provide proper working conditions

Promote world free trade and continuing to improve the quality of life