INTRODUCTION Global corporate citizenship is progressively more important in today’s world as companies have a better understanding how it affects their business, brand and ultimately bottom line. A few years ago, a few different developments, mostly in China, have exposed the severe conditions that third-world workers have been withstanding. Apple’s demonstration of good global corporate citizenship over the years has shown an exemplary path for others to follow. Do you think that Apple has demonstrated global corporate citizenship, as defined in this chapter? Why or why not?
Hiringthe foreign workers may interfere with the policies of China¶s political and legal environment.Prior to Riordan¶s plans to expand the facility in Hangzhou and hire additional foreignworkers, the management should consider the political and legal climates of China to eliminateinterference with the goals of the company. China is a communist state but embraces a freemarket economy (Hodgetts, Luthans, & Doh, 2005). Presently the political environment is stablein comparison to Latin America or the Middle East (Hodgetts, Luthans, & Doh, 2005). However,Riordan needs to investigate thoroughly the legal and regulatory aspects of expanding the facilityand hiring foreign workers in China.The legal and regulatory environment in China needs investigating. Planning to expandthe Hangzhou facility must be approved by the government.
The distribution networks of the new companies are high and tends to affect the operations of JCP. Therefore, the company should build a strong distribution network so as to counter significantly the operations of the new companies that produce similar products. The “mom and pop” stores have been reported to resort in selling products online, otherwise they become obsolete. J. C. Penny’s SWOT analysis The strengths of the company are: * The existence of more than 1100 locations worldwide * Their quality products such as clothing, jewellery, beauty products and even footwear and furniture * The company also offers shipment of their goods for customers, which gives their customers the best experience in the end, hence attracts more customers. * The company also offers free haircuts for the children The weaknesses of JCP Since its competitors give similar products, the company is faced with limited market share 2. International business operations have also challenged the services of JCP due to the current emerging economies worldwide.
As a result, customers expect high-quality products. The sales staff of Custom Fabric Ventures has just received the following order: ------------------------------------------------- See Excel file: Customer Order Form Due to its popularity, the Black and White Handbag (BW14293) is normally a stock item. However, the handbag is currently out of stock. Rather than producing only enough units to fill Katie’s order, management would like to produce a job (Job 114) that is large enough to fill Katie’s order and replenish stock. The fabric used for this job can be stacked four layers deep for cutting, while still maintaining the quality and precision of the cut.
IKEA does this buy distracting its customers by making their products colourful, stylish, and cheaper than other competitors’ products. In addition, Old Navy pulls in its customer just as IKEA. Old Navy draws its customers by putting colourful clothing outside its stores. “American businesses have co-opted cool anti-corporate culture and used it to seduce the masses (Cave & Klein, 2000). They lower their prices and make their products alternative to competitors that are more expensive.
In order for Kudler Fine Foods to develop a functioning frequent shopper program, it must track and monitor consumers shopping behavior. The drive of market research is to collect data on consumers and prospective consumers. The collected statistics support business decision making, which therefore diminishes the risks involved in making these conclusions. This type of research would also benefit the consumer by lowering the cost on items bought most, while giving them personalized incentives to return. As a result, legal matters concerning privacy of the consumer has risen and established far more attention.
Gap Analysis: Riordan Riordan Manufacturing opened a production facility in China. Because it flourished, Riordan's CEO wanted to add another facility. By adding another facility, Michael Riordan hopes to provide the company with additional international opportunities. The competition in China results in a lack of skilled labor; however, labor from nearby countries is available to Riordan Manufacturing. Using workers from these other countries requires Riordan Manufacturing to consider cross-cultural issues.
Without the one-child policy, the population of China will keep increasing. With a big population stress Chinese families cannot get better living conditions. The increasing population is only not a burden for China; it is also a burden for the world. With the limited natural resources, controlling population is a good way to ease the presses. In other words, one-child policy is another way to reduce the resources.
To address this challenge ASIMCO introduced the ‘New China’ strategy. The ‘New China’ Strategy entailed hiring local managers that understood both local and global practices. These managers were accepting of new challenges were selected from middle management levels. The immediate effect of this strategy was the elimination of undesirable elements from within ASIMCO’s joint venture companies followed by a vast improvement in the performance of its companies. An additional benefit was that ASIMCO was able to consolidate its position in China by transforming from an investment corporation that owned a portfolio of auto component manufacturing companies to having operational and management control of it JV companies.
The author draws a conclusion, that China brings both opportunities and challenges to Africa. Speaking about the opportunities, the Chinese involvement in African affairs brings the possibility to the continent to reduce its marginalization from global economy. The author highlights that a major challenge is that Africa has to learn to properly use the influx of resources, that may serve as a mean of poverty-reducing economic development