Case Study On Etch-A-Sketch Ethics
Case Discussion Questions
I. Was it ethical of the Ohio Art Company to move production to China? What were the economic and aial cats and bet lefits of this tixbitml? What wuukl have happened if production had not been moved?
2. Assuming that the description of working condi¬tions given in The New Yurk Tunes is comet, is it ethical (or the Ohio Art Company to continue us¬ing Kin Ki to manufacture Etch-A-Sketch toys?
3. Is it possible, as Killgallon claims, that the Ohio Art Company had no knowledge of labor problems
at Kin KU Do you think company executives had any knowledge of the working conditions!
4. What steps can executives at the Ohio An Company take to make sure they do not find the company profiled in The New York Times again as an enterprise that benefits from sweatshop labor?