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Presentation describes on Sullivan Principles for organisations.
Sullivan Principles
Rev. Leon Sullivan, suggested that it might be ethically justifiable to operate in SA if two conditions were fulfilled:
1. Corporations should not obey the apartheid laws; this was a form of passive disobedience. 2. American firms should actively promote, in whatever ways they could, the abolition of the apartheid laws. This was a necessary condition if the firms were to produce more good than bad for the SA people overall.
The Sullivan Principles
There were six principles and they came to stand for: • The ascendance of moral principles over purely economic interests; • The power and influence of religious groups and social activists to change corporate behaviour;
• The power of multinational corporations, however reluctantly applied, to bring about social and political changes in the host countries of their overseas operations.
The Six Principles
• Non-segregation of the races in all eating, comfort, and work facilities
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Equal and fair employment practices for all employees Equal pay for all employees doing equal or comparable work for the same period of time
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Development of training programmes that will prepare, in substantial numbers, Blacks and other Non-whites for supervisory, administrative, clerical and technical jobs. Increasing the number of Blacks and other Nonwhites in management and supervisory positions.
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Improving the quality of employees’ lives outside the work environment such as housing, transportation, schooling, recreation and health facilities.
(Where implementation requires a modification of existing South African working conditions, corporations seek such modification through appropriate channels.)
• What did the principles achieve? • Did the principles succeed in undermining the apartheid laws and help bring about their repeal?
doc_509568966.ppt
Presentation describes on Sullivan Principles for organisations.
Sullivan Principles
Rev. Leon Sullivan, suggested that it might be ethically justifiable to operate in SA if two conditions were fulfilled:
1. Corporations should not obey the apartheid laws; this was a form of passive disobedience. 2. American firms should actively promote, in whatever ways they could, the abolition of the apartheid laws. This was a necessary condition if the firms were to produce more good than bad for the SA people overall.
The Sullivan Principles
There were six principles and they came to stand for: • The ascendance of moral principles over purely economic interests; • The power and influence of religious groups and social activists to change corporate behaviour;
• The power of multinational corporations, however reluctantly applied, to bring about social and political changes in the host countries of their overseas operations.
The Six Principles
• Non-segregation of the races in all eating, comfort, and work facilities
•
Equal and fair employment practices for all employees Equal pay for all employees doing equal or comparable work for the same period of time
•
•
Development of training programmes that will prepare, in substantial numbers, Blacks and other Non-whites for supervisory, administrative, clerical and technical jobs. Increasing the number of Blacks and other Nonwhites in management and supervisory positions.
•
•
Improving the quality of employees’ lives outside the work environment such as housing, transportation, schooling, recreation and health facilities.
(Where implementation requires a modification of existing South African working conditions, corporations seek such modification through appropriate channels.)
• What did the principles achieve? • Did the principles succeed in undermining the apartheid laws and help bring about their repeal?
doc_509568966.ppt