Week 3, blog 2

Week 3, Blog 2
Chapter 6, pages 181-184, talks about “healthy organizations” and how there has been an increased attention and interest from critical scholars because they believe that workplace accidents, hazards, and occupational injuries are direct results of organizational practices that value productivity and profitability over employee safety and health. Immediately after reading this section, I started thinking about various multinational companies that have production facilities in third-world countries and the kind of working conditions they offer to their employees there. In developed countries like the United States, we have regulatory agencies like OSHA that monitors workplace health and safety, but the we still see high volume of occupational fatalities, illness, and injuries every year. It is just common sense and common guess that in third-world countries the rates of occupational fatalities, illness, injuries, and physical disabilities are much alarming because these countries probably lack the proper governmental regulatory infrastructure that advocates employee occupational safety and health.

In the absence of governmental occupational safety and health regulations, what do these multinational companies do to better organize their overseas workplaces and improve organizational communication to ensure the well-being and safety of their employees? This issue also overlaps with the social responsibility of an organization towards the country they are operating in, as well as their individual employee's well-being. Although I have read numerous news articles and seen many television programs that shows the hazardous working conditions in third-world countries, I have not come across any newspaper articles or television programs that highlight the good occupational health and safety practices that some multinational companies might be conducting in third-world countries. If this is a global age and global economy that we all are living under, it is important for multinational organizations to not overlook the global occupational health and safety concerns, especially in third-world countries.