BU650T-w2019

Group “B”: Eniola, Khalida, Andrew, Steve and Jeanault The ethical question we have taken under review will consider, “Is there a way to sustain Fast Fashion while maintaining ethical standards?” We had determined that there are a number of key pieces of important information we first need to understand when trying to answer this question. We would need to consider what are the ethical standards required and who determines these standards. We would want to understand what companies, if any, have factories that do meet these ethical standards currently. Also, it is important to consider what the financial cost would be for companies to upscale factories to meet these proposed ethical standards and what impact it would have on their profitability. As well, we would want to have a detailed list of who is in the supply chain of these Fast Fashion companies.  Our judgement on this is that if we improve health and safety we will have met a minimum obligation for the workers and stakehol...

Introduction and Ethical Question: The increasingly competitive and fast-moving  fashion industry has evolved from designing and manufacturing clothes for biannual cycles to four to six collections a year. While many iconic brands continue to increase sales and profits for years, there has been a growth of issues regarding its lack of sustainability on the environment and severe mistreatment of workers in its supply chain. To that end we propose this ethical question, “to what extent should the consumer care about how the product was manufactured (encompassing the whole supply chain) and what are their responsibilities to it?”  Information and Ethical Concepts: In order to answer the ethical question, consumers will need the  Fashion retailers to be both transparent and honest about how their clothes are produced and consumers must be honest with themselves.  Information including profit margins, worker conditions, workers safety and outcomes (death...

Group A: Pablo Rojas, Ahmer Bhurgri, Vlad Situ, Elizabeth Diamantopolous, Karl Dingfield, Hany Ibrahim In reflection to the fast fashion inputs, our group selected the question – should fashion brand companies be responsible for the supply chain and how far should this responsibility extend? The unintended impact of the “fast fashion” supply chain is that the end consumer and sometimes parts of the business itself are divorced from the manufacturing realities in the production process which are often located in a different country. This leads to these group to more easily be removed from their impacts which manifests itself in a lack of empathy toward labourers who are affected by inhumane and dangerous working conditions in their home countries. Our reflection focused on the North American standard of fast fashion, where it was defined by large volume-low cost,  combined with large scale operation and agile supply-chain (i.e. Just-In-Time manufacturing) with multi...

Hello BU650T Winter 2019 - Here are some instructions for posting your blog entry and responding to others. Please see the more detailed assignment document on MyLS. ➤ post your group's blog entry on the topic by the Monday following the end of the two-week round of dialogues - i.e. Feb 11, Feb 25, March 11 ➤post your group's response to two other group's post by the following Thursday, i.e. Feb 14, Feb 28, March 14 ➤ your response should offer critical insight to the line of ethical reasoning taken by the originating group. Does their logic hold together? Would you answer their chosen question differently? You can critique any aspect of their argument: the information they selected, the ethical concepts they saw as most important, the assumptions about stakeholders, and their conclusions and implications . ➤respond to the two groups who are alphabetically ahead of you: Group A responds to Group B and C; Group C responds to Groups D and A, etc. ➤ Note...