Conscience_or_the_Competitive_Edge

Conscience or the Competitive Edge The article “Conscience or the Competitive Edge” raises issues in the business world and how ethics influence many people’s decisions. An example would be the scenario of Olivia Jones, a highly respected business negotiator, who was known for her bargaining power which has helped keep the products for the company at a relatively low cost. In this article, Olivia Jones encountered an experience which will forever change the way she conducted herself at her career. She decided that she wanted to visit one of the factories in the city of Bombay, India where the products she was purchasing were being produced. There she witnessed the poor working conditions of the factory workers as they were cramped in a room that was only five feet high and no more than 20ft by 40ft. She also learned that these men worked 12 hour rotations for 6 months out of the year, spending the other 6 months back in the countryside with there family where they would spend the money the earned to farm the land. Startled by what she witnessed she was faced with the decision to either act on her conscience or to do nothing at conscience, career, factory, conditions, olivia, products, jones, edge, competitive, business, workers, witnessed, making, factories, decisions, company, way, visit, very, unfold, type, should, seems, seem, produced, person, owners, over, one, nothing, normal, months, money, influence, future