Sustainability Research

The company I did my research on is Flowserve, which is one of the world's leading providers of pumps and services. Flowserve has a program called the Bay Day, where the employees and their families gather at the Flowserve Chespaeake Bay facility, and collect litter from 415 miles of shorelines and waterways of the Chesapeake Bay. In 2010, the volunteers and boaters collected 179,000 pounds of litter on the Bay Day. This program does not make any quantifying evidence of profits, because it is just a program where voluneteers sacrifice their own time and collect garbages that people dump along the bay. This program will absolutely affect me as a customer, because I consider myself as a green person; and when I see corporations are doing the same actions as me, it is more likely for me to purchase their products.

Business Ethics Reflection

After watching the videos about business ethics and corporation responsiblities, I am amazed by what many low-wages workers are going through, and also the pollution that corporations around the world do to our environment. To many corporations, money is their bottom line; which means what they really care is only money. Making profit become their only goals in their careers. These goals often blind them from looking deeply into the workers level and their outside surroundings. Many workers work at factory are getting a suprisingly low salary.However, many of them are choosing to stay because they have families to support. Many companies sell their products at a high price, and make great amounts of profit; but only a very tiny percentage of the profit are pay toward to the workers. I think this is very unfair to workers at the factories, because they spend alot of time everyday doing the same thing over and over again. In return, they only get pay with few cents a hour.