MGMT 104 Lecture Notes - Lecture 27: Capacity Building, Vertical Integration, Management System
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12. 6. 16 globalization and the private governance of labor. Jia jingchuan, an electronics worker in china, was seeking compensation for chemical poisoning he had suffered at work by trusting that the customer, apple, would do something about it. Recently, companies are holding some degree of responsibility for workplace conditions in supplier factories and pledging not to buy goods from places that have abusive, dangerous, environmentally degrading, or otherwise unethical conditions. Labor standards are still terrible- child labor, hazardous working conditions, excessive hours, poor wages. Locke hoped that private regulation would help ensure fair compensation, healthy and safe working conditions, and rights of association. Tested his belief at nike and concluded the following: companies should have private, voluntary regulation (often, a corporate code of conduct) Companies are more connected around the world. Governments of developing countries lack the institutional capacity to regulate labor, health, safety, and environmental standards: (cid:862)capa(cid:272)ity (cid:271)uildi(cid:374)g(cid:863): pro(cid:373)ise a(cid:374)d peril.
