Assignment 2: Business Ethics and Management
P4 examines the concerns that people have about the ethical behaviour of a business. The role of government organisations and pressure groups can be considered here.
What is the local community? e.g. locations around their factories
- What are the ethical concerns facing the local community of Ben and Jerrys? Areas you could consider are the environmental impacts, e.g. recycling,
What is the national community? (e.g. customers, governments)
- What are the ethical concerns facing the national community of Ben and Jerrys?
What is the global community? (e.g. customers and people with a social interest and governments in different countries)
- What are the ethical concerns facing the global community of Ben and Jerrys?
Who are the pressure groups? e.g. Compassion in world farming, Greenpeace or Friends of the Earth (select one!);
- What are the ethical issues posed by such organisations on Ben and Jerrys (consider dairy farming etc)?
Who are Overseeing bodies, e.g. UK Government, United Nations (UN), World Trade Organisation (WTO) and the World Health Organisation (WHO) (select two!)
- What are the ethical issues posed by such organisations on Ben and Jerrys?