Discussion
Nestlé’s Corporate Social Responsibility consists of looking further then the own company needs or profits and pay more attention to other stakeholders. Everyone concerned or connected to the company business will get a closer look on their situation and will be treated right. They divide the stakeholders in two categories; the first being the internal stakeholders such as employees and shareholders. The second category is external stakeholders where we find the suppliers, customers, environment and so on. A multinational as big as Nestlé plans on the long term, which is why they put a great deal of research into finding out how a business is successful. They have experienced that to achieve success like they have there has to
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Each part of the supply chain adds value to their product; Nestlé makes sure that their entire supply chain operates in an ethical and profitable way. This also counts for their cocoa plantations all over the world. They provide proper training for the local farmers to be able to have a higher and more stable supply of cocoa. There is a strong emphasis on not harming the environment so that the company keeps its good image of being ecological, respectful towards the environment and ethically oriented. At the same time they try to provide proper education for children and reduce child labor. This is extremely important for their business, as cocoa is their most important raw …show more content…
If they do that then they’ll achieve exactly the opposite of what they’re trying to do. The laws that are imposed from the west are not enforced because the country is still developing. Laws that are not enforced have a negative effect. The farmer who employs young workers who should be in school pays them a certain salary they need to have to be able to support their onw and sometimes even their families. If the employment represents a risk for the employer he will start to pay them less making these younger workers even more dependent of child labor. The only thing the west really can do is speed up the development of the developing country. Such a process is very effective but it takes time. The amount of population spread over such a big area makes it impossible to be solved overnight. There is no silver bulled to fight child labor, Nestlé realized that and has shown great efforts in fighting it in a productive and constructive way.
To fight child labor Nestlé starts with finding the sectors with the highest child labor rates. In each territory there are officers chosen by the population and trained by Nestlé. To be able to do this they get help from the International Coco Initiative (ICI). They have a complex system to find families with the highest chance of child labor. They call this “monitoring and
Globalization has in fact contributed to the child labor problem, but I believe that globalization can actually contribute to the elimination of child labor as well. Globalization is the reason for the creation of a political environment which implement the structure of a country. The creation of policies to protect the people with problems such as economic inequality, no access to education or health services, diseases, malnutrition, and even crime contributes to a healthier and harmonious society. These policies and globalization work together to provide a strong economy which theoretically should help drastically decrease child labor in Brazil.
Everyday in the Ivory Coast, as well as in Ghana, Nigeria and Cameroon, about 300,000 children are forced to pick cocoa beans that will be sold to big chocolate companies like Nestle and Cargill. About 6,000 of these children are treated like slaves.” (“Is It Fair to Eat Chocolate?” Paragraph 3 by Deborah Dunn). The big chocolate industries who buy from cocoa farms that have child labor often don’t pay close to a fair amount of money.
“Child labor and poverty are inevitably bound together and if you continue to use the labor of children as the treatment for the social disease of poverty, you will have both poverty and child labor to the end of time” (Grace Abbott). The issue of child labor has been around for centuries. Its standing in our world has been irrevocably stained in our history and unfortunately, our present. Many great minds have assessed this horrific issue and its effect on our homes, societies, and ultimately, our world.
Child labor is something people in the United States might think of as awful, but for families in countries like China it is a way of life. Name brand companies, for example Nike, have their products made overseas often using children to do the work. The use of child labor in other countries for Nike brings up the debate on whether or not the United States should buy products that have been produced by children. The United States should not buy products manufactured with the use of child labor because of the unfair wages they get paid and bad working conditions. Some may argue that by putting children to work it is lowering the unemployment rates in countries, the morals of buying products produced by young teenagers is just flat out wrong.
It processes its own dairy, bakery as well as deli products, hence acting as a distributor for all of its
As a group we believe that New Belgium Brewery (NBB) is a socially responsible corporation. Social responsibility is an ethical framework where corporations should embrace economical, cultural, social, and environmental issues ethically and susceptibly (imasocialentrepreneur.com, 2015). Firstly, as a corporation, NBB believes that the synchronization of what a “brand says,” and what a “company does” is the stepping-stone in achieving social responsibility (Ferrell, Fraedrich & Ferrell, pp.436). This mandate helps New Belgium Brewery emphasize that as a company, being able to integrate the company’s code of conducts and core values is what will make the company successful.
“In India, innocent and poor children are victims of child labor,” Malala Yousafzai. Child labor is when adults force minors, people under 18, to do work for them whether it be for paying of their parents debt or as a form as slavery. In the Victorian Era children were put to strenuous labor but in present day most countries now have laws that deny kids under 16 to have jobs, but some countries allow child labor but more striking evidence is in the similarities between the Victorian Era and present day both having companies lure in children only then forcing them to work. Many things have changed from the Victorian Era including that there are laws in place to stop child labor. “in the eighty years between 1780 and 1830, more than 4,000 local acts were passed and between six and seven million acres or just over twenty percent of the land area of Britain was enclosed,”(vichist.blogspot.com,2010).
This business is regularly followed by human resources, safety and health environment-related compliance and business integrity which is based on an independent external audit network evaluated programs called CARE. Therefore, Nestlé worked hard to ensure a high standard of both employees and employers welfare as well as other forms of its CSR aspects such as employee safety, environmental problems, and education. Nestlé believes that its corporate business responsibilities shape the way of business that form of the cultures values, although the basic foundation is unchanged from the time of the origins of the company. Thus, its corporate business principles
"We are not in business to make maximum profit for our shareholders. We are in business...to serve society. Profit is our reward for doing it well. If business does not serve society, society will not long tolerate our profits or even our existence." Kenneth Dayton, former Chairman of the Dayton-Hudson Corporation 1.
21.4% of children are involved in child labor, with more than half working under hazardous conditions, such as the children working seventy six hour weeks under the Disney corporation. The international labor organization defines child labor as “work that deprives children of their childhood, their potential and their dignity, and that is harmful to physical and mental development.” The implementation of child labor has several negative consequences, such as a detrimental economic effect and the question as to whether its application is moral. Child labor has both a negative effect on the economic standing of a family, and that of a nation. Corporations like Disney promote the exploitation of children for labor; therefore, companies
This is due to their good management and other factors as well. The management of Nestle uses the best process which guarantees decent and productive running of the business. Besides that, the company utilizes
Nestle possesses about 450 factories and has businesses in a total of 86 countries around the world. Nestle has a large range of products, from food and snack to ice-cream and cereals. Nestle has the objective to be recognized worldwide as the leader in Nutrition, Health, and Wellness. Nestle has a motto that states, “Good Food, Good Life” that holds the company’s purpose of enhancing the quality of their customers daily
There are many reasons that cause child labor: Poverty and unemployment levels are high – As you see, the most of employed children work in less developed countries by economy. In such countries poor families and children may rely upon child labor in order to improve their chances of attaining basic necessities. According to U.N statistics more than one-fourth of the people around the world live in poverty that is caused by the high unemployment levels. Free education is limited – U.N estimated that approximately 75 million children were not attending school. The education for the whole world’s children costs 10-30 Billion dollars that is 0.7% - 2% of the annual cost of global military spending.
(2014). Child Labour and UNICEF in Action: Children at the Centre. New York: UNICEF Child Protection Section. Retrieved from
A system to check and balances the benefit of all the board of directors and to avoid some of top management from making decisions that only benefit themselves is created and named corporate governance. Corporate governance means the system of rules, practices and processes by which a company is directed and controlled. The set of rules provided as a guidelines for the board of directors to make sure that accountability and fairness in a company’s relationship with its stakeholders such as financiers, customers, management, employees, shareholders and also society in order to achieve company’s goals and targets in a manner that add a value to the company. All of the stakeholders play an important role in corporate governance to ensure that