"Nike: From Sweatshops to Leadership in Employment Practices"ќ

When Nike started a massive international expansion plan the company should have realized that the labor conditions of many third world countries were flawed to begin with. When the firm entered into manufacturing contracts in foreign nations the company needed to emphasize to the contractors the importance of business ethics. Each contract should have included a code of conduct that the contractor had to follow. In order to put pressure on the contract to comply with the ethical standards and code of conduct of the company each contract should have included a termination clause in case of non-compliance with the code of conduct and ethical expectations of the company. A code of conduct is a companys voluntary belief in a set of morals, standards and proper behavior for its operations,