Question

The company that I have chose is Amazon, the online retail

Instructions

Use the same organization as in previous weeks' projects. Research the ethical challenges regarding employees (i.e., diversity, discrimination, sexual harassment, privacy, employee theft, bad leadership, etc.) that your chosen organization has faced over the past five to ten years and that they should prepare to face in the next five to ten years. Once you have developed a list of challenges, consider how having faced those challenges (or knowing that you will be facing them) will impact and be impacted by the social cause you've selected.

Tasks:
Propose your findings on the ethical challenges faced by your organization in recent history and the near future. Be sure to:

Analyze ways in which each challenge was (and/or could be) appropriately handled and areas for improvement.

Evaluate the ethical/moral aspects of your organization that protected it from ethical challenges in the past and could protect it in the future.

Assess how ethical challenges and handling of ethical challenges could positively or negatively impact the charitable cause you've selected and how the selection of your social cause could positively or negatively impact the organization and its employees.

Submission Details:

Submit your paper in a 3- to 5-page Microsoft Word document, using APA style.

Name the document SU_BUS3001_W4_LastName_FirstInitial.doc

Submit your document to the Submissions Area by the due date assigned.

Answer 1

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ETHICAL CHALLENGES IN AMAZON-

amazon is very big online retail company which is globally recognised & founded by world's top richest man Jeff Bezoz.as amazon works online we can not see what is behind the curtain.some of the activities behind the amazon working is unethical like discrimination , tax evasion, privacy etc.

the following are ethical challenges in amazon-

high work pressure- on the warehouses workers of amazon like Amazon refuses to give workers long term contracts and benefits, and there have been reports of workers being heavily monitored for productivity to the point where there were recent reports of warehouse workers peeing in bottles out of fear of being punished for taking a break because the closet toilet was four flights of stairs away.

There are even reports of pregnant women afraid to take breaks for fear for being penalized for not meeting targets.

avoid payment of taxes-amazon is one o the high profit earning online retail site but guess what? Amazon avoids paying corporate taxes.That’s because Amazon doesn’t collect taxes on behalf of third party vendors,This is due to an outdated precedent from 1992 that states “retailers must collect sales taxes only in states in which they have a physical presence.

privacy issue- amazon is known as trusted site in terms of privacy of information of the customer's information but it uses some kind of facial recognition system which links your face to your ID and your credit card. And Amazon, being the unscrupulous company it is, has been criticised for making deals to sell this information to the Pentagon and police.

these challenges can be handled by following-

• treat employees equally even they are workers from the warehouses.this would help to remove discrimination issue.
• tax payment is one of the way through which govrenment of any country make investement decision from such paid taxes so non payment of taxes is illegal as well unethical so, company should pay taxes regularly so that this issues never arises in future.
• privacy means maintaining the confidentiality as millions of customers are on amazon & they trust them with thier information so it is their ethical duty to maintain that privacy.

ethical challenges & thier solutions impact the organization positively because it helps the company to know what are thier ethical issues which are impacting on the social image of the company & solutions to these challenges would make the organization more ethically healthy.

company can also put positive social impact by doing social causes like charitable to non profit organizations or other social causes like treatment of disabled patients etc.

* above answer is written in my own words.hope this answer would help you.good luck & rate.