Unit 37 - Ethics by Michel

michelajayi — 2015-01-21 09:51:04 UTC

michelajayi — 2015-01-28 13:56:08 UTC

Primark bags are 100% more recycable which helps the econmy because it makes it more safer.

michelajayi — 2015-01-28 14:06:47 UTC

Primark made a deal with India, that if the Indians give them cotton they will teach them and English and help them with their education.

Aims & Objectives

michelajayi — 2015-02-04 10:31:38 UTC

Primark provide good quality products for the public; we want the public to realise we are a good company and just because our products are cheap, it doesn’t mean that they are rubbish. We will achieve this by having our products made by people that know what they are doing and test them to check that they are good quality.
To sell goods at reasonable prices; We want the public to have a wide range of options to them, so we offer them good quality products at reasonable prices; This will be achieved by looking at other stores, selling similar products, and making our prices lower than other places.

Mission Statement (Our ethics)

michelajayi — 2015-02-04 11:39:53 UTC

Primark programme in India helps thousands of workers and their communities by providing education and support to them when they help make clothes for Primark. Including workplace rights, health and hygiene, and the importance of children's education.

Primark are making steps to reduce the impact on the environment of their stores and operations. 80% of our stores use Building Energy Management systems to control energy consumption by monitoring lighting and temperature levels. Primark are trying to reduce reduce the energy our stores use, to recycling our clothes hangers, to reusing the paper and cardboard from our stores to make our famous brown bags.

Primark also plan educational visits. Primark also have a partnership with NGOs and other organisations to create a series of resources about ethical trading & sustainability that can be used by both teachers and students

Primarks Code of Conduct sets out the core principles that suppliers and factories must follow to ensure products are made in good working conditions, and that the people making them are treated decently and paid a fair wage.

How will Primark functions get affected?

michelajayi — 2015-02-09 15:22:16 UTC

A lot of pressure groups have protested against Primark because of their bad ethics.

Due to their child labour and mistreatment and because of the amount of public who has boycott Primark and are shopping different stores and this is bad because this will drop the sales of primark and will decrease the profit Primark make as a business.

What can Primark do to change their ethical behaviour?

michelajayi — 2015-02-09 15:30:49 UTC

When Primark became ethical, they used a diiferent selling technique
to get more customers and it worked because their sales rapidly rose
and Primark got a wider profit margin.

When Primark had bad ethics, the markerting team had to do some-
thing drastic to change that and what they probably did is work a lot
harder to make a new product which will make a lot of sales.

Primark Ethical Evualation

michelajayi — 2015-02-11 09:39:49 UTC

The ethical parts of the business is that Primark are environmentally friendly, Primark have invested some money on being energy efficient. Another piece of evidence is that Primark are making their carrier bags using only their used cardboard which is generated in the Primark stores and the factories. This gives them good ethics because they are helping the environment as they are not using non renewable sources that much any more which leads to them operating much more sustainably allowing the non renewable sources to run out slower.

If Primark increases the welfare of their workers and their working conditions, it will lead to Primark spending more money and don't want to that because that means they will have to increase the price of costs e.g. goods and services. They will have to increase the prices of their products in order to cover the costs which the customers won't be happy about so they will end up going to another store and even shop at rival stores. Primark could improve their ethics by increasing the pay of the employees which also has the opportunity of increasing the profit of the company as good ethics will act as a unique selling point which will attract more customers to the Primark stores leading to increased profit to cover the extra costs.

My conclusion on Primark being ethical or not is that i think that Primark has bad ethics and i think this because of theiur employees working conditions which basically tells us that Primark doesn't care about their workers unless they are not doing their job and the mistreatment of child labour. This shows us that Primark is unethical because ther main focus is to maximise profits and having a lot of loyal customers.