2000 words (excluding Reference list) Address each article separately, with no common introduction or conclusion Assessment Details: Please choose TWO media articles (from a newspaper or magazine...

Media Articles Folio
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Topic 4 - Big chocolate companies are accused of child exploitation    3
Topic 5 - Gender discrimination in terms of undervaluation and career growth opportunities    6
Reference list    9
Topic 4 – Big chocolate companies are accused of child exploitation
Introduction
Link - https://www.theguardian.com/global-development/2021/feb/12/mars-nestle-and-hershey-to-face-landmark-child-slavery-lawsuit-in-us
The current report is intended to discuss one newspaper article regarding immoral or unethical behaviour of the business organisations. The current report has focused on different big chocolate companies such as Mondelēz, Hershey, Olam, Mars, Barry Callebaut, Cargill and Nestlé. The agency of human rights IRA has initiated legal action against the organisations for child exploitation. The detail of the current article is analysed in the below segments.
Overview of the article
The article has mentioned the legal charges against all the above-mentioned organisations regarding abetting and aiding illegal enslavement of huge numbers of children in supply chain of cocoa firms (Ukwayi, Angioha and Aniah, 2019). IRA has launched the compliant on behalf of few child slaves who were employed forcefully on cocoa factories and plantation without pay in the different countries of West Africa According to IRA, the management of the companies was completely aware of the risks of child exploitation in terms of very low-valuation work, low amounts of payments or forceful employment without paying the wages. However, the company has failed to address these issues rather than avoid them. It has also alleged that these companies still have not applied any such efficient automated identification and detection scenario in order to appropriately monitor the risk of child exploitation with the assistance of other channels. Due to this inefficiency, the company has not been able to identify any potential child exploitation related activities on the accounts of the suppliers. The company has also failed to deal with these issues with the suppliers as well. The review system of the companies was inefficient to initiate checks of due diligence in terms of managing, mitigating, and identifying the known risk of child exploitation.
Identification of ethical issues
If a company identifies that children are included in the production of operational process of any of its partner’s or client’s business activities, the company must initiate a quick action in order to provide appropriate protections to the involved children. The responsible authorities of the organisation also ensure the quick transition of the children from the current scenario to the high-quality education process (Caruana et al., 2021). Apart from this, the company also needs to generate commitment from the business partner or customers that the company will not be involved in child exploitation in future and not recruit any child in any kind of job role of the company. The big companies have failed to address the child exploitation issues properly with the client although the company management was completely aware of the activities of the client regarding risk related to child exploitation.
Discussion on related theory
Utilitarianism theory can be discussed in the context of the current article. This theory identifies the wrong or right activities by prioritising the outcome of the event. As per Utilitarianism theory, the most efficient ethical choice can be the one that demonstrates the greatest good for the wider number (Friesl, Garreau and Heracleous, 2019). The evaluation process of the Utilitarianism theory is based on the outcomes or consequences of the action such as costs or net benefit to all kinds of organisational stakeholders. The prime objective of the Utilitarianism theory is to reduce the level of sufferings and produce a lower level of harm.
Negative and positive impact on the stakeholders
Positive impact
The company utilises child labours in order to reduce the cost of direct labour. Through the cost-savings, the company can generate a huge amount of profit and increase the scope of stable earning. The stakeholders of the organization also can be benefited from the high amount of profit as well.
Negative impact
The utilisation of child labour in the operational manufacturing process decreases the moral standard...