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  • Essay / The Nike Case - 731

    Nike has failed to create and implement an effective approach to social responsibility. When Nike released a corporate responsibility report in 2005, they realized that its business processes and production pressures often conflicted with the code's policies and led to violations and employees and managers taking shortcuts. Nike also designed a self-executing monitoring program to rate factories on a letter scale based on requirements in areas such as work hours, wages, grievance systems, chemical management, safety fire and protective equipment. However, the results failed to put an end to any of the significant problems. Reports from a factory in Bangladesh said management punished employees for learning about labor rights, and reports from a factory in Malaysia found workers paid exorbitant recruitment fees and were denied passports until 'until they get paid. Although Nike has attempted to improve conditions in these sweatshops, there is little evidence of serious problems.