How 10 environmental issues impact Ben & Jerry’s Geraldine Peacock Sustainable Business Practices Dr. James L. Miles Sr. April 1, 2012 One company that is making strides and showing evidence of a shift toward a world where environmental protection and business success can go hand in hand while obtaining an Eco-Advantage is Ben & Jerry’s. (Esty, D. C. & Winston, A., S., 2009) Ben & Jerry’s have been making the finest all natural ice cream since 1978. Today, Ben & Jerry’s is owned by Unilever (Unilever, 2012), and their packaged ice cream is sold in stores across the United States and in 29 other countries around the world. Ben & Jerry’s global business is managed out of their Central Support office in South Burlington, Vermont. Their products are distributed in supermarkets, grocery stores, convenience stores, scoop shops, restaurants and other venues.
Smucker’s Expansion Strategy MGT455 Online College I. Overview: In 1879, the J.M. Smucker Company was founded by Jerome Monroe Smucker in Orville, Ohio. Smucker started by selling apple butter to their local community and has since grown into a leader in the market of branded food. The company has grown successfully through increasing the market share of existing brands, introducing new products, and by making strategic acquisitions. Smucker has acquired many highly regarded brands, including Jif, Crisco, Hungry Jack, Pillsbury, and Folgers (Thompson, et al., 2010, C-257).
Nathan Osborne Phil 186 It’s Good Business: Robert Solomon The author Robert Solomon argues that ethics play a big part in the business world. He does not believe that in order for business management to succeed that they must include unethical or illegal methods to be able to succeed. Solomon believes that business management is not as simple as making revenue. He acknowledges that while illegal and unethical practices in business management could bring positive results in the short run, eventually the business is going to fail in the long run. This is why Solomon recommended eight important rules that can help businesses in including ethics into their business operations.
Perhaps they believe that the employees are contributing to the revenue losses and are stealing merchandise. These are all self destructive in nature and could impact their ability to remain in business and keep good employees. Making the decision to close two stores without adequate justification drastically reduces it footprint in the market place. It appears that either the store supervisor or manager is not engaged with the employees and consumers; do not have sufficient training on company ethics policies to enforce them; or they do not have a fully robust ethics program in place to address to ongoing issues. PART B Company Q can take some immediate steps which I believe would turn a downward trend in to positive results.
Hugh McBride will address who the company’s stakeholders are, define the end-state vision, identify and evaluate alternatives, identify and access the risk of the alternatives, recommend optional solutions, create and implement solutions, and to access the outcomes. Beltway Investments are McBride Financial Services major investor. There are some that anticipate for the company to be run by implementing corporate governance. The company’s CEO has decided not to implement this option. The new CEO would rather operate the company without interference of the “money man.” Even though, this maybe a gamble due to corrupt the thinking that would affect Beltway’s public credit.
Week Two Learning Team Reflection During Week 1, we discussed the basic components of business research. We were shown how to recognize dilemmas and address issues related to corporate America, such as declining sales, increase in costs and any other issues that may have adverse impact on business. With that, business research becomes a problem solving tool in the decision making. However, ethics must first be weighed to ensure the social bottom line and productivity remains at its highest. Unethical behavior undermines positive gains.
Why are ethical behaviour and government regulations important to marketing? Ethical behaviour is used within many businesses to ensure the business provides accurate information to customers as well as other businesses to engage in fair competition. It is important for a business to have ethical behaviour in relation to the marketing side of the business so that goods produced, promoted then sold do not provide misleading information. If identified by consumers, it can have a major impact on all functions of the business as it has the potential to ruin the business’s reputation placing the business at a declining stage of the business’s life cycle. In a similar manner government regulations are also important and must be overviewed by all functions of a
This provides the most feasible resolution because of the ability to integrate the governmental regulations and for McBride to begin adhering to more ethical practices while maintaining some level of control and creating greater consumer trust. The current path of unethical practices, the insistence on maintaining total decision making control, and lack of corporate governance will lead McBride towards financial destruction and /or being removed as the CEO of his organization by the board
In fear of losing her job, she does not report the mistake to her supervisor. How should the employee have handled this situation and what should the supervisor do when the situation is disclosed? How does the AICPA Code of Professional Conduct relate to ethics? Provide examples to support your response. The CFO for a corporation deliberately misstates expenses on the income statement purely out of a sense of loyalty to his CEO and the company.
In the primary interest of our entity, its incumbent upon employers to find a right balance between the exceptions to the employment-at-will doctrine to avoid liabilities associated with the violations of the exceptions. The company in this scenario has grounds to terminate the supervisor, but I would issue him/her a written warning hoping that this situation can be resolved among us within our company. This is the case where the potential act of whistle blowing would help reveal the wrongdoing of the business world. I strongly believe that it takes a special person with strong morals to take the ramifications of whistle blowing. Losing a prized job, having to down size your life, and your life being wide open to scrutiny are effects of whistle blowing.