A business ethics program for NIKE INC.
1.0 Introduction Ethics has a significant role to play in the existence of successful companies regardless of their discipline or region. More importantly, considering the fast-changing economic, technological, political, and legal structures, businesses are embedded in a competitive world, full of stakeholders and power claims. As a result, for companies to be perceived as reliable partners in businesses, they are bound to implement ethics in their day-to-day activities. Additionally, businesses operate in ever-changing local, national, and multinational environments, which has forced companies to adopt ethics programs to respond to the negative publicity that arises from interactions with various environments (Nielsen & Massa, 2013). Since the company’s stakeholders stand to gain or lose from any actions and decisions by the firm, they play a key role in shaping the development of the business ethics programs for any organization. Failure to do...