Describe best ethical practices for Sustainable fashion.
Business Ethics Report
Overview
The purpose of this report is to benchmark some area of business ethics, for the company you might be working for, your industry, or a particular area of business practices you are interested in. The audience for this paper may be conceived in terms of your superior at work who assigns you the task of getting her and your unit up to speed on best ethical practices in your area.
Topic:
Sustainable fashion: vegan leather, sustainable fibers, recycling used clothing; fabric and shoes from plastic waste. Possible Companies: Adidas, All birds, Patagonia, Levis etc.
Content
Once you decide on the business ethics issue you want to cover, you will locate four companies which have faced this problem. Your task in the paper will be as follows:
• to define your ethical issue;
• to describe EITHER
o what each of your four companies struggled with, with respect to the ethical issue, ALONG WITH what each company did after either being discovered or admitting to having the ethical problem
o OR the stretch goal they assumed and how they went about fulfilling their improvement goal AND how well they have done bringing that goal to reality;
• to describe Best Ethical Practices for your issue, established by one or more of the following means:
o Guidelines or rules established by a non-governmental organization
o Relevant laws and established professional codes of conduct, international standards, etc.
o Expert opinions gleaned from journal articles or other sources
o A “Best Practices” model company, which deploys and utilizes the best practices you are espousing
• to write a follow-up, where you 1) review and report on each company’s record on your ethical issue for the past two years, and 2) give your judgment of how well each company handled its ethical issue, including what they could or should have done differently.
You may certainly examine companies which are considered highly ethical and how they handle ethics within their organization, or best ethical practices they have implemented.
In any case, you cannot use one of the four original companies as a Best Ethical Practices company. For that you need a fifth company.
Research
Your research for this paper will include consulting at least twelve articles. These can be a mix of edited/published and Internet-only sources. Be sure you vet the reliability of information you use, especially from websites which are not fact-checked or edited. Wikipedia does not count as a source, though you may use it as a starting point for further research. I suggest not using more than four Internet-only sources out of 12.
