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Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesMaster of Science in Information Technology
Business Process Re-Engineering
Emerging Threat:Human Rights Claims
Harvard Business Review
• Modern organization must compete in a challenging environment.
• The business environment is the combination of social, legal, economic, physical, and political factors that affect business activities.
• Significant changes in any of these factors are likely to create business pressures on organizations.
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HBR: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HBR: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
Types of Business Pressures• Market - Market pressures are generated by the
global economy and strong competition, the changing nature of the workforce, and powerful customers.
• Technology - pressures related to technology
• Societal - includes social responsibility, government regulation/deregulation, spending to protect against terrorism, and ethics.
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HBR: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
It’s only a matter of time before some company becomes the Enron of Human rights abuse, warns the general counsel in this fictional memo to the CEO.
Activist U.S. courts are accepting more and more human rights claims against the business practices of global firms in developing countries. Companies should take steps now to avoid ugly and costly legal battles.
by Elliot Schrage
Publication date: Aug 01, 2003. Prod. #: F0308B-PDF-ENG
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HBR: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
Enron - Enron was a company that went filed for bankruptcy in 2001 following an accounting scandal. At one time, Enron was the 7th largest company in the United States.Essentially what happened was Enron created a bunch of off-balance sheet partnerships to hide its debt and improve its financial picture in order to gain more favorable credit terms and pump up its stock price. Eventually, this scandal became known and the company came crumbling down.
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HBR: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
Human rights are "basic rights and freedoms to which all
humans are entitled.”
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HBR: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
List of human rightsHere is a list of some of the most recognized ones:
• Right to live, exist.• To work for anyone• To own property• Speech• Security• Safety from violence• Protection from the law
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HBR: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
List of human rightsHere is a list of some of the most recognized ones:
• Not being arrested unless there is reason to think someone has committed a crime
• Having a fair trial• To be seen as innocent, even if a person is arrested, until the person is
found to be guilty by a fair court.)• To be a citizen of a country • To vote • To think freely
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HRB: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
List of human rightsHere is a list of some of the most recognized ones:
• To seek asylum if a country treats you badly • To believe and practice the religion a person wants• To peacefully protest (speak against) a
government or group• To have a basic standard of living
(food, shelter, clothing, etc.) Education Health care (medical care)
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HRB: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
Human rights organizationsSome well-known human rights groups are:
• Amnesty International• Doctors Without Borders• Human Rights Watch• Human Rights in China• Human Rights Campaign• Southern Poverty Law Center
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HRB: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
Human rights organizationsKarapatan - Alliance for the Advancement of People's Rights
- a Filipino Human Rights Organization
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HRB: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
Preempting Legal Attack
Most of the cases have targeted companies in the extractive industries such as mining and petroleum, but the fact is that all companies whose supply chains or distribution markets reach into developing countries are vulnerable.
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HRB: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
The Defense
Companies have already developed product quality standards that they impose on supply chains partners; now they must develop human rights-based process quality standards and roll them out of their global operations.
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HRB: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
The Defense
Executives need to participate new area of liability and protect their companies from them by revising their business practices.They need to develop a priority list of emerging human rights or tort issues that may confront their companies in the future.
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HRB: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
Conclusion
Companies must react rapidly to problems and opportunities arising from extremely dynamic conditions for them to be able to survive in the competition.
Polytechnic University of the PhilippinesBusiness Process Re-Engineering
HBR: Emerging Threat – Human Rights Claims
Reporter:Ms. Sherwin G. GutayMSIT [email protected]
