Social Responsibility

Responsibility to Suppliers

• Should build relationships on mutual trust.
• Suppliers deserve to receive notification in time to render quality service and suppliers.
• They have the right to be treated according to the terms of their legal agreements.
• Mutual trust can make a 20-40 percent difference on service, quality, cost and other items.

Responsibility to Communities

• Communities have the right to quality of life.
• Quality of life can mean: air, land, and water quality.
• We have to look at how products and packages may harm the environment.

Responsibility to Communities

• Within the last decade there has been a boom in “green” businesses and products, and even green services.
• Green products- are those that minimize energy consumption and pollution by products connected with their manufacture and disposal.
• Not only is this becoming a huge trend in retail and fashion, but as a multibillion dollar industry there are laws that are cracking down on pollution and natural resources.

Government Regulations

• The laws that are now put into place are there because of these abuses.
• Although the laws are in place, most governments do not have enough money or people to adequately enforce regulations.
• These abuses can be brought to the attention of those who can doing something about it by a practice called whistle-blowing.
• Employees who bring these abuses to the surface are called whistle-blowers.
• There are roughly 20 federal laws and 40 state laws that protect whistleblowers.

Sustainable Communities

• Many organizations are now investing the resources into creating sustainable work communities.
• Sustainable Communities: are healthy. Livable communities effectively using resources- economic, social, and environmental to meet the needs of today’s communities while ensuring that resources are available to meet the community’s future needs.
• All of NIKE’s headquarters are sustainable.
• Can be expensive to make, but costs can be lower in the long-run.