| Company Analysis of Mega Food | MGT 6671 | | | | There are several ethical issues to take into consideration when formulating a recommendation on whether to relocate the chocolate candy facility to the country of Frostburg. For example, the labor laws in the country of Frostburg are not well developed. This could possibly mean workers are not paid minimum wage, exposed to chemicals, or dangerous machinery. From an ethical perspective, we must ask ourselves: Is Mega Food comfortable putting employees at risk? Not only do poorly treated workers typically make poor-quality goods, but U.S. companies that aren’t careful about sweatshops could face the costly job of reputation repair if a watchdog group links their brands to workplace abuses (Viedermann, 2007).
They should also check for potential contaminants after post-production process and deem if the product is acceptable by ISO 9000 standards. Reference to : http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/ISO_9000 c. Eastern Diary has bad management and a lack of control over its employees. There are no managers or superintendents during the night shift to ensure that the production processes is going smoothly nor is there any authority to oversee and manage its employees. Shutting down the entire production process on the whim of an operator is unproductive and unprofessional even though work is completed at the end of the
Finally, there is a dangerous lack of oversight by FDA regulators into the safety violations of companies such as Chemins leading to a reduced rate of public health and safety. Display: There are a number of options available to the Chemins company to deal with the ethical issue of mislabeled products. One is for the company to submit to mandatory testing of their products in order to ensure that what is on the label is what the product actually contains. This testing can be performed at the expense of either the company or the government, though this author believes it is the job of a company to own the regulatory compliance expense of ensuring its products are safe for
The attached diagram is a brief outline displaying our various quality problems concerning personnel, maintenance, purchasing, product design, management, and marketing. Problems occurring with quality within our personnel include inadequate training, lack of communication, lack of control in process, and lack of understand of quality. Next is the problems with maintenance, there was no schedule preventive maintenance for the equipment, a tooling problem with the Greasex machine, and many of maintenances current solutions do not fix the root cause of the problem. Purchasing also has some quality issues primarily poor communication with vendors. Next are the quality problems with product design and packaging including lack of testing equipment and lack of knowledge about the shape of the packaging.
This leaded to a displacement and diffusion of responsibility. When the system is in charge for decisions, moral disengagement of the employees appears. 3) Loss of autonomy Do to the fact, that everything was guided and recommended by the IT System, there was no space for personal reasoning and finally nobody felt responsible. 4) Change of business strategy Through the acquisition of the LPB business the original “Feel-Good-Strategy” of Mrs. Field´s cookies was gone. Further not to franchise the original cookie business and to diversify the business concept was not beneficial and leaded to high depths of the company.
The challenges for the distributor were observed to surround visibility and forecasting. Visibility issues arise due to the distributor’s inability to decide on the appropriate product mix to be shipped and the uncertainty in predicting the consumers’ impulsive buying behaviour. Forecasting issues, on the other hand, relate to stockouts or piling up of excess inventory, in addition to errors in predicting demand. The retailer grapples with visibility issues as well. Improper maintenance of stock and stacking below the eye-level on store shelves make the products – Livon, Set Wet and Zatak – less visible than their ‘rivals’ in the respective product segments.
1.) Three appropriate actions taken by The Big Cheese staff: * As for every Food and Beverage Manager or Director, when an employee feels ill or under the weather sending them home is essential. Not having any type of sick employee or disease around the food product will lessen the risk of any customer obtaining sickness from the employee. * Even though Gypsy was looking out for the best of the customer and business, she cannot throw full plates of food in the kitchen. It is significantly unprofessional by acting the way she did by arguing to the point that the customers heard her and throwing the plate.
(15 points) Preconventional, which is decision making based on avoiding punishment. In stage 1 of the Preconventional level: Heinz should not have stolen the medicine, because he will be punished for stealing. Based on the idea that right and wrong depends on what is punishable (stealing.) In stage 2 of the Preconventional level: Heinz should steal the medicine, because the reward of his wifes survival will outweigh the consequences of stealing. Based on the idea that right and wrong depends on what is rewarded (his wife living.)
If I were George, I will act responsibly and ethically. To ensure compliance to quality standards and food safety, all milk intended for direct consumption should be pasteurized. So, Milk manufacture processes will the most important problems. To find solution for this problem, I will directly contact with management or director of Eastern Dairy though emergency phone list who have total responsible if the product will go to market. I hope that they can solve problem by replace solution.
“ he is not like to marry me well and, not being well married it will be a good excuse for me hereafter to leave my wife” , this quote illustrates his unromantic portrayal of love, as he is willing to go through great measures to avoid being tied down to one woman. In this quote, touchstone implies that it will be easier to get rid of his wife because they are not getting married, traditionally, in a church. This introduces the fact that he is unromantic, selfish and his practicality. It shows his carelessness towards love, and he would rather have a sexual companion than to have a loving, meaningful relationship. He tells the reader that he is a realist, to support this he quotes,” unless thou wert hard favoured: for honesty coupled to beauty is to have honey a sauce to sugar.” Touchstone says that it is too good ti be true, if a good looking woman is also honest.