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AQA GCSE (9-1) BUSINESS (8132)

3.2.2 Ethical and environmental considerations

Ethical considerations

Define ethics here:

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Ethical behaviour

Most businesses operate to meet the needs of the owners or ______________________________

Ethical businesses operate to meet the wider needs of their stakeholders, and try to act in a way that is ________________ and fair

For example; _____________________________ organisations try and meet the needs of their employees and suppliers

Ways a business could become more ethical – tick those that are true:

Paying workers higher wages Improved working conditions Reducing wages Reducing pollution Buying Fairtrade supplies/agreeing to pay more to suppliers Donations to the community Saving elephants Reducing packaging

How many children are estimated to be directly involved in manufacturing goods:

1 million 10 million 14 million

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Child labour – tick all the industries where child labour is found:

Carpets from India, Pakistan, Egypt

Clothing sewn in Bangladesh; footwear made in India and the Philippines

Soccer balls sewn in Bradford

Glass and bricks made in Oldham

Fireworks made in China, the Dominican Republic, El Salvador, Guatemala, India, and Peru

Surgical instruments made in Sussex

Treatment of workers – working conditions – tick all true statements:

Sports Direct workers have complained about their working conditions

They are searched every day on the way out of work, this takes 50 minutes which is not paid

Staff are given almost impossible tasks of picking items from a huge warehouse for 18 hours a day

Many staff are scared of being sacked Many staff have zero hours’ contracts

Treatment of workers – modern slavery

• UK has new Modern Slavery __________________________:

• Any business – or part of a business – that has a global

_________________________________ of £36m or more and supplies goods or

services in the UK will have to produce and publish an annual slavery and

_________________________________ statement in a “prominent” place on its

website every year.



• The statement must set out what steps the organisation has taken to

ensure there is no __________________________ in any part of its business,

including its _____________________________ chains.

Treatment of suppliers – fair trade

• Fairtrade is about better ______________________, decent working conditions,

local sustainability, and fair terms of trade for farmers and workers in the

_________________________________ world.

• By requiring companies to pay _____________________ prices (which must

never fall lower than the market price), Fairtrade addresses the injustices

of conventional trade, which traditionally ________________________________

against the poorest, weakest producers.





Define trade-off here:

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Trade-off between ethics and profit

• Ethical behaviour – such as paying fair wages - can be more expensive for the business

• Higher costs can mean lower profits

• However – complete the information:

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Complete and label the diagram:



Environmental considerations

Define environmental here:

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Environmental considerations – write your notes in brief in this table:



Traffic congestion

Recycling



Waste disposal

Noise pollution



Air pollution





Sustainability

Define sustainability here:

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Sustainability

• Business needs to choose _______________________________ resources e.g.

Palm oil, wood, water etc.

• Business has an ethical duty to make sure there are enough

__________________________________ resources for the future

• For your children and _________________________________ and beyond

Sourcing

• Businesses should seek to source ethical products where possible

• Ethical sourcing is the process of (complete the information)

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Climate change

Climate change may have an impact on businesses, in a nutshell they will have to reduce their carbon emissions;

– Businesses will have to

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– Businesses will need to

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Global warming

Define global warming here:

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Global warming what could happen? Tick all the correct statements

If the Earth gets hotter, some important changes could happen:

Water expands when it's heated and oceans absorb more heat than land, so sea levels would rise



Sea levels would also rise due to the melting of the glaciers and sea ice

Cities on coasts would flood

People will die from heat

Places that usually get lots of rain and snowfall might get hotter and drier

Lakes and rivers could dry up

Elephants might die

There would be more droughts making hard to grow crops

Less water would be available for drinking, showers and swimming pools

Hurricanes, tornadoes and other storms which are caused by changes in heat and water evaporation may get more common.

How can consumers stop global warming? Tick those that YOU do…

Re-cycle glass bottles, jars, newspapers and magazines and tin cans

Have a compost heap in the garden to throw away kitchen food waste – great for feeding your plants with

Put a brick in a plastic bag into your toilet cistern, then the toilet will use less water each time you flush

Cycle to places

Have showers instead of baths

Give unwanted gifts and clothes to a charity shop



Only fill the kettle up with the amount of water you need to boil that time

Don't leave the TV or video on standby

If you get lift to school in a car, take your mates along for the ride.

Wash clothes at 40 degrees

Switch lights off when you're not in the room

Score 12/12 You are very green and you are helping to stop global warming, well done and on behalf of the planet, thank you

Score 8/12 Great, keep going, but you could do more to help the planet

Score 5/12 You are making some effort to help the environment but there is probably more you could do

Score 0/12 Allergies, asthma, and infectious disease outbreaks will become more common due to increased growth of pollen-producing ragweed, higher levels of air pollution, and the spread of conditions favourable to disease and mosquitoes, and you are not helping one bit!

Using scarce resources

• In our world today, ________________________________ are becoming

increasingly _______________________ (hard to find)

• So business needs to:

– Find ___________________________ (like solar power instead of fossil

fuels)

– Using resources more ___________________ (avoiding waste, recycling

etc.)

Trade-off between sustainability and profit



• There is pressure from; _________________________, scarce resources, laws

and competition to become more ___________________________

• However, in order to become more sustainable a business may have to

______________________ some of their profit

• This is a trade-off or ___________________________

• For example; ____________________________ protects goods while being

transported, consumers demand less packaging, research and

development into new packaging is expensive and the goods may get

damaged in ______________________

• It is not always possible to have both sustainability and _____________

Please label the diagram:








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