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SA 8000 : An Analysis of its Implementation in Pharmaceutical Sector
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conditions of the workers in the SA 8000
certified companies. SA8000 have
provided an opportunity to the workers
the right to organize. This is a key and
valuable input of SA8000 standard in the
companies. According to Richard Hewitt,
Member of the European Parliament
(2002), “SA8000’s experience in the
field offers valuable lessons to all those
working to turn corporate social
responsibility words into action. M. J.
Hiscox, C Schwartz & M. W. Toffel
raised question on proper execution of
SA 8000. These authors ponder over
whether this code represents substantive
effort to improve working conditions or
merely symbolic efforts that allow
organisations to score marketing points
and counteract stakeholder pressure by
merely filling some paperwork. A Shukla
and A Pattnaik (2012) has made a study
on impact of SA 8000 certification on
contract workers. They made a
questionnaire and one hundred twenty
worker’s response to such is observed.
The authors found that with the
implementation of the standard improved
the life of the workers in company with
better working conditions.
Objectives of the Study
This empirical analysis is made to
reach the following objectives.
‣ To diagnose different contents of
SA 8000.
‣ To analyse the implementation of
SA 8000 among the field workers of
pharmaceutical sector.
‣ To dig out whether the concern
companies are providing the benefits of SA
8000.
‣ To find out whether the concern
employees are aware about such
standard.
Research Methodology
Research methodology renders a
ways and means to conduct the study. It
gives the roadmap to continue the work.
Present study includes a sample size of
fifteen pharmaceutical companies.
Seventy field workers of such companies
are respondents for the study. Data is
collected from both the primary and
secondary sources. Different research
articles on such area are referred. Journals
of ICAI, ICSI are also followed. A
questionnaire is prepared and reactions
of respondents are observed. Different
statistical tools, tables and diagrams are
used for analysis of data.
Analysis of Data
Table 1 explains the name of the
companies included for the study and the
number of respondents from each
company. More than one respondent is
selected from each company because the
field workers are working in different
divisions under different divisional
managers. This study includes the medicine
representatives who are spread all over
Odisha.