Q.6.

If you were part of a third party regulating body, how would you deal with
ethically questionable business practices of multinational corpotrations like Apple?
Would you feel obligated to do something, or do you think the solution rests with the
companies themselves? Explain your reasoning.

Some of the unethical Practices by Apple
Inc.-
1. Thwarting smaller competitors
2. Dishonest corporate policy
3. E-waste and environmental
destruction
4. Financial affairs
5. Harsh labor conditions and child
labor accusations
6. Collaborations with the U.S.
government and the NSA
7. Planned obsolescence
How the unethical practices of Apple Inc. can be dealt with-
Apple is one of the most valuable company in the world currently.
Apple is facing major allegations as mentioned on the left. In the
recent launch event of Apple Inc. the company strongly
emphasized that all of its new products are being manufactured
with 100% recycled aluminium and 100% recycled waste plastic
bottles. I believe in regard to environment friendliness, we can let
apple take the lead and rely on its new policies for reducing digital
waste and promoting environment friendliness.
Apple Inc. outsources manufacturing and labour force from
different countries and makes the labours work under highly
dangerous conditions along which they even hire young children
and make them work under dangerous conditions for which a third
party intervention is required to deal with the matter.
Apple Inc. manufactures and designs its products in such a way
that they are not supposed to last for more than one year so that
Apple Inc. can push people to buy their new models of products
every year in order to earn higher profits, such a problem can only
be dealt by a third party organization. For the rest of the unethical
practices mentioned in the list on the left, the U.S. Government
and higher U.S. authorities and even the Law system of the U.S.
must intervene either directly or through a third party
organization.