Ethical Theory and Business



Ethical Theory and Business

By seeking inexpensive sources of labor, it has been popular for employers to lower their costs, throughout history. Driven by profit motive is the desire for cheap labor. Corporations hope to increase profits and reduce prices, by decreasing costs. To countries where salaries are lower, one recent trend is to export jobs. Unskilled jobs in agriculture and manufacturing have usually been the outsourced jobs, in the past. Now being shipped overseas as well, are safe jobs in health care and engineering, however. As citizens, managers, and engineers, the exportation of labor raises several important ...