Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors

Short, Jodi L.; Toffel, Michael W.; Hugill, Andrea R.

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“…Factories selected for the study had been successfully passing external compliance audits with environmental measurement tools designed to examine and measure organizational non-financial performance. These tools have been, however, recently recognized to be insufficiently efficient, flawed or biased mainly due to being based on a 'check-box compliance' approach (Short, Toffel, and Huguill 2014;Lebaron and Lister 2015). Hence, our study provided additional, subjective measures beyond objectively adequate working conditions confirmed by external auditors.…”

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Worker’s well-being. Evidence from the apparel industry in Mexico

Węziak‐Białowolska

Białowolski

McNeely

2019

Intelligent Buildings International

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A growing body of research links working environment with employee health and well-being. We argue that greater employee well-being is associated with positive work outcomes, benefits likely vital to business performance. We have expanded the literature on this topic by evaluating these questions within a population of factory workers. To date, studies have examined well-being in the workplace in middle-and low-income countries mostly through the lens of disease and disability or have been restricted to human rights, rather than human well-being in general. This paper connects (1) job resources/work conditions and (2) worker well-being with (3) work outcomes in Mexican apparel factories belonging to the apparel supply chain. Our analysis builds on the first wave of the SHINE Worker Well-Being Survey. We examined links between working conditions, job resources, individual well-being and work outcomes using path analysis within a cross-sectional study comprising approximately 2200 Mexican factory workers. We report that job satisfaction and self-assessed work performance are positively and directly associated with worker well-being. We found that job control, trust, respect and recognition were significant correlates of all examined work outcomes (job satisfaction, work engagement and self-assessed work performance), with significant indirect effects on well-being. ARTICLE HISTORY

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Worker’s well-being. Evidence from the apparel industry in Mexico

Węziak‐Białowolska

Białowolski

McNeely

2019

Intelligent Buildings International

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“…The audit process and auditor have been investigated from a regulatory perspective (Coglianese & Mendelson, 2009;García Martinez et al, 2007;García Martinez & Poole, 2004;Grabosky, 2013;Havinga, 2006;Oosterveer, 2015;Sodano et al, 2008;Swoffer, 2005; Bernd M.J. van der Meulen, 2011a; Verbruggen & Havinga, 2014b), a critical theory perspective (Anders et al, 2010;Burch & Lawrence, 2005;Busch, 2011a;Fuchs, Kalfagianni, & Havinga, 2011;Konefal et al, 2005;Richards et al, 2011;Sodano et al, 2008;Tanner, 2000), and from a legal perspective (Brewster & Goldsmith, 2007;Fagotto, 2014;Hawkins & Hutter, 1993;Lytton, 2017;Marks, 2016;Rouvière & Latouche, 2014;Bernd M.J. van der Meulen, 2011a). This literature includes an extensive analysis of private food safety regulatory approaches, and some discussion of the GFSI-system specifically, but has limited discussion of an audit's objectives or the auditors' understanding of their role in the food safety and public health system (Davey & Richards, 2013;Short et al, 2014).…”

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“…a retailer based with a head office in Ontario has no direct input into the food safety practices of a lettuce producer in California (Aung & Chang, 2014;Charlebois & Labrecque, 2009;GFSI, 2018e;Havinga et al, 2015;Konefal et al, 2005;Richards et al, 2011;van der Meulen, 2011a). Therefore, a food producer's certification to a GFSI-recognized certification programme provides assurance to its customers that it has a globally recognized food safety management system in place (Deaton, 2004;Lytton & McAllister, 2014;Marks, 2016;Short et al, 2014). Most CPOs also allow registrants in its system to identify certified food producers through their websites, and in addition several allow businesses to put the certification programmes' logo on their documentation, e.g.…”

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“…Third, both actors are governed by ethics and display a commitment to competence, integrity and morality; the inspector through their employment in a state institution and the auditor through the GFSI Benchmarking Requirements, conformance to the CPO requirements for auditors, and the CB's hiring policies. Furthermore, both regulatory approaches have stated a commitment to public health, which can be viewed as a public good in their domain (CFIA, 2015a Both roles have been identified as professionals in the literature (Lytton & McAllister, 2014;Powell et al, 2013;Short et al, 2014;Walker, 2014). Food safety inspectors at all levels of government are recognized as food safety professionals (Buckley, 2015;CFIA, 2016b;Lipsky, 2010;Lyons & Malowany, 2009;Medeiros & Wilcock, 2006;Pham et al, 2010a;Powell et al, 2013;Public Health Agency of Canada, 2010;Rice, 2013).…”

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“…20 Albersmeier, Schulze, Jahn and Spiller (2009) assessed the validity of audit findings from a CB, finding significant differences between auditors. Short, Toffel and Hugill (2014) determined that auditors in third-party certification schemes could be influenced by many social factors, including gender, professional training, etc.…”

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Public and private food safety regulatory approaches: exploring the role of global food safety initiative auditors in achieving public health objectives, focusing on the Canadian experience

Driscoll¹

2021

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Governments are faced with a variety of challenging issues that have proven difficult to manage, one of which is providing safe food to its citizens. Recognizing this, and in response to several high-profile food safety crises in the late 1990s, food retailers created the Global Food Safety Initiative (GFSI), a private food safety regulatory approach. Certification to a GFSI-benchmarked private standard is often required through customer-supplier contracts, and as a result, food producers in the global agri-food supply chain may be subject to both the public and a private food safety regulatory approach. This dissertation uses Webb’s (2005) sustainable governance framework, which maintains that public, private, and civil sectors’ institutions, processes, rule instruments and actors have regulatory capabilities in support of public policy objectives, to explore whether or not the GFSI auditor, an actor in the GFSI-system, supports the public heath objectives of the state. Three primary research questions were developed to pursue this inquiry. First, on a functional level, can the GFSI auditor can be considered a public health practitioner analogous to the government’s food safety inspector? Second, do GFSI auditors view themselves as public health practitioners? Third, do other actors in the GFSI-system consider GFSI auditors to be public health practitioners? Using a mixed methods investigative approach, this dissertation presents the following conclusion: though the GFSI auditor can be characterized as a public health practitioner who supports the state’s public health objectives, neither the auditors themselves nor other actors, e.g. representatives of Certification Bodies, Certification Programme Owners, etc., in the GFSIsystem who participated in this research characterize the GFSI auditor as a public health practitioner. The final chapter of this dissertation discusses the public health and policy study significance of this investigation, provides policy recommendations to both the public and private institutions and actors involved governing food safety in Canada intended to strengthen the overall public health system by recognizing the role that GFSI auditors have in promoting public health objectives, and opportunities for further research.

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Measuring Compliance in the Age of Governance: How the Governance Turn Has Impacted Compliance Measurement by the State

Wingerde¹,

Bisschop²

2022

Measuring Compliance

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Monitoring the Monitors: How Social Factors Influence Supply Chain Auditors

Cited by 7 publications

References 89 publications

Worker’s well-being. Evidence from the apparel industry in Mexico

Worker’s well-being. Evidence from the apparel industry in Mexico

Public and private food safety regulatory approaches: exploring the role of global food safety initiative auditors in achieving public health objectives, focusing on the Canadian experience

Measuring Compliance in the Age of Governance: How the Governance Turn Has Impacted Compliance Measurement by the State

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