Company Q currently does not seem to be as socially responsible as it could be. It has recently closed a couple of stores in a higher-crime-rate area, because the stores were supposedly losing money. It has also chosen not to donate outdated products to the local food bank because it fears employees may steal food, claiming that the food is for donating to the food bank. In evaluating Company Q’s current attitude toward social responsibility, I found them to be lacking in some areas that might help boost the companies ability to have a more cohesive ethical culture with in the company and therefore be able to retain more revenues as a result. The first action that Company Q could take to improve its attitude toward social responsibility would be to donate the outdated food to the local food bank.
The foodways in America and around the world have drastically changed in the last couple centuries. While some of these changes have had a negative effect on food pathways, many of the changes have made food production more efficient and inexpensive. Five significant changes to the foodways have been the invention of the refrigerated railroad car, the disappearance of the milkman, the microwave, mechanically separated chicken, and genetically modified seeds. One of the most important inventions in the transportation of food is the refrigerated railroad car. This advancement has allowed consumers to receive fresh food and beverages from distant locations without the fear of spoilage.
Company Q can improve their social responsibility in three areas; customer satisfaction, community outreach and employee trust. The first way for Company Q to improve their attitude toward social responsibility is by improving customer satisfaction. Their customers have requested for years to have organic and health-conscience products made available. Although Company Q is now offering a few of these items they are limited and expensive. Company Q should survey customers and meet their requests at an affordable price.
Topic of interest – Ebola virus disease (EVD) As the media coverage around the Ebola virus has gone into overdrive I thought it would be a great topic to focus on to assess the credibility and quality of informational and social sources. To demonstrate this I will look at two informational and two social sources and apply the critical evaluation skills from Metzger’s article (Miriam J Metzger. 2007) to evaluate the accuracy, authority, objectivity, currency and coverage of these sources. In addition to this, the plethora of current information available on the topic has provided me with a good opportunity to assess various formats of sources (i.e. videos, statistics, forums, fact sheets, etc.)
At KFC, they added a breakfast menu and lowered the price to match what local cafes were offering. This offered locals an alternative to traditional breakfast street food and also capitalized on the fact that there was a big increase in young urban workers. By focusing mainly on the employees in the local markets instead of centralized research, Yum was able to isolate and allow the workers to generate new innovative ideas. In each local market, the brand could focus on developing new items that were unique to their country, but still had to follow a set of guidelines of global standards which allowed Yum to reach economies of scale. By utilizing CHAMPS, Yum is able to maintain cleanliness,
Prior to the wave of globalization, the term of plurality of cultures represents unique cultural characteristics of specific foreign markets, such as China, India, and European countries that must be accommodated to achieve successful business ventures (Steers, Sánchez-Runde, & Nardon, 2010). With the emergence of globalization, the notion of cultural pluralism comes to prominence and caught the attention of educational scholars, researchers, and practitioners (Bauman, 1999). The beginning part of this paper introduces the background information about Wal-Mart Stores. The following parts include the theoretical framework, the cultural problem facing multinational
For example, a customer may choose to buy a premium cup of coffee from a national coffee chain instead of buying coffee at a local corner store. The reason is that the national coffee chain has built its brand and established in the minds of customers that the premium cup of coffee is worth the price because of the quality offered to the customer. Loyal Customers A company with a strong brand establishes loyal customers throughout the years. A company also can increase its income by introducing new products to the market. Customers who are loyal to a name-brand company are more likely to try the new product, as opposed to someone who is not loyal.
It is important because this is when the media agenda can directly affect the public agenda, which may in turn affect the political agenda (Dearing & Rogers, 1996, p. 22). This essay will also argue that the issues that make up the agenda need to be sensational as these lend themselves to media and public attention more easily than prominent or governmental issues (Soroka, 2002, p. 85). This essay will outline why orientation, sensationalism and the ability for the media to adopt an adversarial position are important in the effectiveness of media agenda-setting, this will include reference to the Pictures in our Heads Theory (McCoombs, 2004, p. 68). It will discuss these alongside particular areas of policy including the environment, trade policy and unemployment policy. In addition, as the media does have an effect on agenda-setting this essay will discuss whether the media is autonomous or dependent on others for information.
Emerging Issues Psych 535 Emerging Issues There are many emerging issues coming out in multicultural psychology. The issues can come from culture issue to media influence on a multicultural individual. The two emerging issues that will be discussed in this paper are advertising and multicultural identity. These two issues are something that a multicultural individual would have to deal with and learn to either over come or get around it. Both of these issues can have an impact on society as well as how they affect interactions with culturally diverse groups.
Organic foods are not proven to be better than other foods. Many people buy organic foods because in today’s society it is widely accepted as the new health fad. Similar to the Atkins diet and other fads of the past, buying organic is socially an upgrade to buying normal foods. In actuality it’s more a psychosocial affair. In an interview on NPR, Inskeep discusses some of the intricacies of organic food with NPR’s Aubrey Allison, and she responded with this excerpt “…there are a whole bunch of emotional values that are tied up with eating organic food.