LoginPage 9: Responsibility to Employees and customers
All organisations have a responsibility to serve their employees and customers, who are likely to be affected by the consequences of an organisation's activities. In today's business environment it is unacceptable for organisations to ignore the activities of consumers and individuals within the wider community.
For Amway this means doing business ethically and taking a stance on key issues. (Ethics concern the moral principles or rules of conduct generally accepted by members of society. They constitute a guide as to what should or should not be done, and involve what one believes to be right or believes to be wrong).
Over the years there has been much criticism of illegal pyramid selling and chain letter investment schemes. These proliferated in the l970s. Hard sell tactics and techniques such as 'down loading' (where the person at the bottom of the illegal pyramid buys vast amounts of unwanted and over-priced stock which he/she cannot sell), gave the whole industry a bad name. Many people invested in such schemes and lost money in dubious schemes which collapsed.
