You are the production director of a manufacturing company. In a highly competitive market, you carry out all of the major manufacturing tasks in a neighboring country as the wage levels there are 40 percent lower than in your own country. The near-finished items are then shipped by rail to be completed in your domestic factories, allowing you to claim they are made in your own country.
1. How would you get around the ethical implications that this arrangement creates?
2. How might you explain your decision to carry out manufacturing in the lower-wage country as being fair and respecting the rights of the workforce there?