{"id":5,"date":"2011-09-13T21:45:36","date_gmt":"2011-09-14T04:45:36","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/?p=5"},"modified":"2011-11-24T01:22:26","modified_gmt":"2011-11-24T08:22:26","slug":"business-ethics","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/2011\/09\/13\/business-ethics\/","title":{"rendered":"Mistreating workers? No!"},"content":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0<a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/files\/2011\/09\/walmart1.jpg\"><img loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"aligncenter size-medium wp-image-133\" title=\"walmart\" src=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/files\/2011\/09\/walmart1-300x251.jpg\" alt=\"\" width=\"300\" height=\"251\" srcset=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/files\/2011\/09\/walmart1-300x251.jpg 300w, https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/files\/2011\/09\/walmart1.jpg 412w\" sizes=\"auto, (max-width: 300px) 100vw, 300px\" \/><\/a>In the article of &#8220;<a href=\"http:\/\/www.nytimes.com\/2011\/05\/31\/business\/31walmart.html?_r=3\">Wal-Mart Is Being Pressed to Disclose How Global Suppliers Treat Workers<\/a>&#8220;, it can be clearly seen that, in order to get higher profits, Wal-Mart&#8217;s international suppliers mistreat their employees. They are forced to work longer hours but end up with lower payment; they are deprived of the ability to possess worker rights in a safe workplace.\u00a0Actually, the international suppliers overlooks business ethics as they give up the welfare of employees for the so-called profits. The vanish of morality in the market not only subjects people\u2019s lives to danger but also destroys the business climate.\u00a0\u00a0<\/p>\n<p>\u00a0Profits and business ethics always work together. There is no conflict between these two words, but they are connected.\u00a0 Only if the suppliers ensure workers&#8217; rights as well as\u00a0their safety, employees are more willing to make their efforts to produce the best products. \u00a0Only if these kind of high-quality goods satisfy consumers, the firm is able to make a large amount of profit. Therefore, paying attention to business ethics is always the right thing to do.<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n<p>&nbsp;<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>\u00a0\u00a0\u00a0In the article of &#8220;Wal-Mart Is Being Pressed to Disclose How Global Suppliers Treat Workers&#8220;, it can be clearly seen that, in order to get higher profits, Wal-Mart&#8217;s international suppliers mistreat their employees. They are forced to work longer hours &hellip; <a href=\"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/2011\/09\/13\/business-ethics\/\">Continue reading <span class=\"meta-nav\">&rarr;<\/span><\/a><\/p>\n","protected":false},"author":8076,"featured_media":0,"comment_status":"open","ping_status":"open","sticky":false,"template":"","format":"standard","meta":{"footnotes":""},"categories":[1],"tags":[],"class_list":["post-5","post","type-post","status-publish","format-standard","hentry","category-uncategorized"],"_links":{"self":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5","targetHints":{"allow":["GET"]}}],"collection":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts"}],"about":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/types\/post"}],"author":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/users\/8076"}],"replies":[{"embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/comments?post=5"}],"version-history":[{"count":5,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions"}],"predecessor-version":[{"id":134,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/posts\/5\/revisions\/134"}],"wp:attachment":[{"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/media?parent=5"}],"wp:term":[{"taxonomy":"category","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/categories?post=5"},{"taxonomy":"post_tag","embeddable":true,"href":"https:\/\/blogs.ubc.ca\/aileen\/wp-json\/wp\/v2\/tags?post=5"}],"curies":[{"name":"wp","href":"https:\/\/api.w.org\/{rel}","templated":true}]}}