Nike's Csr Challenge

Nike's CSR Challenge

Case Study

Synopsis

After several audits Nike reported that a large percentage of their overseas factories have their employees working in terrible environments for low pay and in unsanitary health conditions. Nike adopted new strategy and approach to correct these problems. They attempted to take responsibility to effect positive systemic changes in working conditions with several branches of their industry. Nike plans to reshape the way customers, and management style that is leaders beyond borders meaning leaders reach out to more than just their professional role and engage people on shared goals. They knew they had to reach to wider issue to make the huge difference.

Question 1

Answer: There were several cases reported of abusive treatments in more than a quarter of its South Asian plants. Another report is that 25%-50% of factories in the region restrict access to toilets and drinking water during the workday. The same percentage that was reported also applied to factories denying workers at least one day off of the seven days they already work.

Nike's CSR Challenge underlined that difficulty of bring wholesale to change to a company that isn't centralized. Instead the challenge was to transform the way business is done. Leadership was traditionally seen as guiding your employees towards the goal of the company. What is need is a more open form of leadership that calls for collaboration among mutually dependent parties in order to solve systemic problems. The challenges are too reshape the signals being given out by its supply chains group to itself and its competitors. So that the companies can operate in a sustainable and just way, which is also financially viable.

Question 2

Answer: Nike starts to create a positive environment. Change the system for upgrades. Doing this will being more consumers, and brining feedback from consumers will only help Nike.

Question 3

Answer: To have an industry open-system approach to social responsibility means to understand that the future depends on the way customers, suppliers, investors, regulators, and others relate to it.

Question 4

Answer: Leaders Beyond Borders provides a framework for defining global citizenship. It helps us to find common ground amidst differences everywhere in our lives, whether at home or at work, locally or internationally.

Question 5

Answer: Yes I believe it's everyone's responsibility to care for each other and everything. It is a culture based on cooperation not competition with not just humans, but also everything that lives and flows on the planet including other animals and resources.