Ethical Business
Ethical Business?
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Task:
Select a business from the ones above. You will need to research the business on the internet. The aim of the task is to think about the actions of the business and if they are ethical or not.
|Name of Business | |
|Description of business | |
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|Production (e.g. how does it produce its produce? Is | |
|there a lot of waste and environmental damage in the | |
|production?) | |
|Suppliers (who supplies the business with their goods?| |
|Are they treated fairly? Are they an ethical | |
|business?) | |
|Workers (How does the business treat the workers e.g. | |
|fair pay, good conditions, fair holiday, good hours) | |
|Customers (does the business listen or ignore its | |
|customers wants? Does the business have customers who | |
|are unethical?) | |
|Competitors (How does the business deal with | |
|competitors, is it fair or unfair?) | |
|Products (Are the products sensible and | |
|environmentally friendly or does the business sell | |
|guns to children etc) | |
|Environment (Does the business have a negative impact | |
|on the environment or climate change e.g. chopping | |
|down forests) | |
|Local Community (Does the business support people in | |
|the local community e.g. give them jobs, support | |
|charities, help out the community?) | |
Would you trade with this business? Give the reasons for your answer?
Pressure groups
Many businesses have pressure groups who protest against their business. This may be because they use suppliers who do not treat staff well, because they test on animals, because they harm the environment. Examples of pressure groups are Oxfam and Greenpeace.
Task part one: Prepare a rousing speech to give to the rest of the class. You should select a company that you want to protest against. State
1: What are the actions of the company
2: Why is this unethical
3: What you want changed
4: Why people should join and support your pressure group.
Task part two: A selection of you will then deliver your speeches to the class. The person who gets the most members of their pressure group at the end of the lesson will win a small prize.
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