Company Q’s current mind-set on social responsibility appears to be quite negative, uninformed, and antiquated. It would appear that the company chose to close stores in high risk areas without first investigating how they could provide service to this under-served segment of society while still maintaining a profit margin and ensuring the safety of its employees. The company’s veiled attempt to make quick profits by providing only a small, high margin sampling of the customer requested health-conscious or organic products has likely served only to alienate and diminish their customer base. Lastly, the company’s response to the local food bank’s request for donations appears to a feeble attempt to create a valid reason to avoid the extra work that may have been associated with this endeavor. This response likely had the added effect of offending their employee base by suggesting that their employees would utilize the program to steal from the company.
Grocery chains often have connections with local food banks or other distributors of day-old or unsold products. Company Q should address this problem as an issue with their hiring practices. It is not fair to assert blame on employees by assuming they will steal products meant for
One could argue though, that receiving a five year employment borderlines financial benefits especially given the worsening financial position of Pharma. Adams and Barker also lacked diligence in investigating the proposal, decision, and transaction and never consulted outside experts. “Directors’ and officers’ decision-making procedures must be set up in a way that allows careful decisions to be made regarding the best interests of the corporation”. (The Legal Environment of Business, 2011) The argument could be made both ways about protection by the business judgment rule concerning rational belief. For Pharma to survive and become viable it was obvious that some decisions had to be made, but was the sale of the assets in the best interest of the corporation, or was it in the best interest of Adams and Barker?
Case Study Analysis of “Wal-Mart: The Main Street Merchant of Doom” Issues/Problems: This case details the history and social responsibility issues of Wal-Mart. It discusses Sam Walton and his responses to criticisms as well as his determination to be a successful. The central issue is this case is why is there such conflicting data? Some people see Wal-Mart as an example of “social responsibility” and one of the most admired corporations in America, while others see it as an unattractive homogenizing factor and a “Merchant of Doom” that should not be allowed to set up shop in small towns. The rapid and enormous expansion of Wal-Mart and its market share have changed the landscape of Main Street in towns and cities across America.
Other problems include the company having a lackadaisical business strategy, internal conflicts among upper management, an information technology department that has not been well run and is frequently criticized by peer executives, and a lack of integrated business objectives that do not align with information technology objectives, the inability to prioritize projects due to unclear business objectives. This has resulted in project failure, a bad company reputation, loss of market share, and stock price tumbling. Carlisle believes that IZL Corporation is salvageable, but needs to upper management to do this. In this paper, the problem, recommended and alternative solutions, as well as implementation strategies are discussed. Key Issues The key issues for Jack Carlisle, according to Robert Austin, are recorded in the informally published manuscript, Jack Carlisle, CIO.
Boeing has experienced operational problems due to lack of understanding of personnel issues and unethical conduct. Over the last several years Boeing has experienced internal weaknesses and outside threats leading to a need to improve leadership and management operations. The need to improve internal operations includes lack of understanding of organizational culture that inhibits current and future growth of the company (Heizer, 2009). This can be witnessed through the backlog of deliveries caused by a machinists strike in 2008. A change in Boeing’s organizational behavior is required to more effectively manage labor and customer relations.
This monograph by Mary C. McComb on how college youth and experts negotiate their class identity as "middle class" during the economic crises of the Great Depression enters this conceptual quagmire, but although she occasionally comes close to tripping a fuse, she emerges with some illuminating pathways. McComb has crafted a tidy research monograph with well chosen cases in order to focus on the formation of a class-based discourse on middle-class identity in a decade when the economic basis of class privilege was undermined by weakened depression-era prospects. Close readings of student newspapers at five colleges and Universities contrast the views of relatively privileged Amherst College men with those of their female peers at Mount Holyoke. She then sets these perspectives against those of less elite collegiate youth at two additional private institutions, but in these cases coeducational schools in urban settings (Washington, DC) with distinctly different racial student bodies-the white George Washington University and the black Howard University. Finally, McComb fills out her research with the case of students from a land grant public university, the University of Michigan, where she was completing the dissertation on which this book was based.
Case Study: Zing PC 1. What are the Major Problems facing ZingPC? * Losing the market share Zing PC is losing its market share because of Push strategy failing to comply specific customer needs. * Dysfunctional Logistics Dysfunctional Logistics occurs because there is no 3PL (third party Logistics Contractor) for inventory / supply and order deliveries to the customer, hence overloading company resources / expertise. * Lack of inventory Management Lack of inventory management and standardized parts not being used in manufacturing, due to unrelated inventory procurement of Zing PC.
When these new people enter the daily workings of American society, they contribute positively to both employment and consumption. Immigration critics argue that the net benefits to the U.S. economy from immigration, aside from the large gains to the immigrants themselves, are small. The mere fact that incomes are actually increasing despite the large increase in immigrants seems to support immigration all the
Advantages: a) Customization to clients, start of vertical integration in the supplychain. b) Customers’ needs are met faster at higher profits due the eliminationof reseller’s mark-ups. c) Directly control customer service. d) Minimal inventory carrying costs and higher order lead time. e) The ability to forecast demand is significantly better.