Question

Select all the ethical dilemmas that occur for the organizations or intermediaries during the certification stage of the global supply chain:

A) Wages    B) Sale Quotas

C)Fair Purchasing Agreements D) Environmental Waste

E)Corruption    F) Verifications or Certifications

G) Working Conditions H) Conflicts of Interest

I) Child Labor    J) Discriminatory Pricing

Answer 1

The ethical dilemmas that occur for the organizations or intermediaries during the certification stage of the global supply chain are as follows:

A) Wages - Whether fair wages shall be paid to workers is an ethical dilemma for organizations

B) Sale Quotas- Sales Quotas are an ethical dilemma for organizations. The organizations need to monitor whether their employees are given sales quotas that are abnormally high, which may require overtime or may not be even practically possible to achieve.

C) Fair purchasing agreements- Fair purchasing agreements are more related to intermediaries. They may include issues like having exclusive sale dealings, areas to operate, buying multiple products from a single supplier, etc.

D) Environment waste- This is an ethical dilemma for organizations regarding adherence to environmental policies.

F) Verifications or certifications- This is an ethical dilemma for organizations regarding adherence to certifications.

G) Working conditions- This is an ethical dilemma for organizations related to providing fair working conditions to their workers.

I) Child labor-  This is an ethical dilemma for organizations related to using children in their workforce, including the contractor workforce.

J) Discriminatory pricing- Discriminatory pricing is more related to intermediaries. This may include issues like offering different prices to different customers, fair profit margins for intermediaries, etc.