The luncheon occurred away from company grounds during their designated break times. In comparing the Pepsi and Mike Yurosek cases, the employees were being filmed going to their place of employment truly without consent. In the case study, the employees voluntarily went to the union sponsored luncheon. In addition, the case study stated why the pictures were being taken.…
Browning’s new position as the vice president and operating officer of Continental White Cap brings both ethical and moral challenges. As stated on his psychologist’s report, Browning has passion for business, “he cares about people, is sensitive to them, and makes effort to motivate them”. But, his new position drives him into a culture that has tested these features of his, thus, his moral and ethical challenges. For example, Browning enters into an company where the White family has continued to act as patrons and everyone feels comfortable in their positions. By confortable we mean that employees have high salary, high job security, free lunch, and rife with rituals, ceremonies and traditions.…
Barbara Ehrenreich decided to see how her life would be if she had to work for low wages. Ehrenreich, first, decided she was going live near Key West, Florida. Next, Ehrenreich tried to find a job with the ads she had acquired. She then went to the hotels and supermarkets, which were in the ads, in order to get a job. Ehrenreich obtained a job, as a waitress, at a place she supposedly called Hearthside.…
The coffee craze is the United States is growing rapidly and getting out of hand. Many people are paying for overpriced beverages made with suspicious ingredients. In Dave Barry’s newspaper column, “Decaf Poopacino”, he explains that “the specialty coffee craze has gone too far.” He supports his claim by using an anecdote from his own life along with informal comedic diction to relate to the reader and make is point more clear. His humorous tone allows him to entertain the reader and it allows him to make his irritating experience seem like a comedic and relatable story.…
Dunkin Donuts It started with Dunkin Donut, an organization that Rachel Doucet worked for, and she said, “It really is a circus at times”. I interviewed Rachel Doucet who happens to works at Dunkin Donuts and I will do a critical analysis on the metaphors that she mentioned about Dunkin Donuts as an organization. It is based on a fast-food industry as an organization and how the people work as well interact in the workforce. I did a fifteen minutes interview and analyzed on the metaphors Rachel described about Dunkin Donuts. My reaction to the metaphors Rachel described was a bit shocking because I did not expect Dunkin Donuts to be crazier than I realize.…
As the name implies, food justice is about fairness. It holds that everyone has the right to healthy food. Unfortunately, in many cities this is not a reality. There are urban areas where access to affordable, healthy food is severely limited.…
In Nickel and Dimed, Barbara Ehrenreich’s experiment to prove that fair wages, overtime pay, retirement funds, and health insurance are crucial for a person in this economy. She forced her to adapt to the lifestyle of the working-poor: how they live, eat, and performed in their daily lives. To exemplify the struggles endured in order to keep up with a society, where the rich get richer and poor get poorer as they travel with no way out form the bottomless pit that is the lower class. Many problems recurred throughout the novel for instance long hours, no job benefits such as health insurance, and the fact that Ehrenreich does not fully commit to the experiment.…
In The Broken Village: Coffee, Migration, and Globalization in Honduras the author, Daniel R. Reichman, explains what he personally experienced from his visits and experiences while in La Quebrada, Honduras. Daniel R. Reichman is a current Associate Professor and the Chair of Anthropology at the University of Rochester in New York, New York. His main emphasis is studying how the culture changes during different economic periods. This book, The Broken Village, focuses on La Quebrada during the time in which coffee made the most revenue versus the time when the citizens of La Quebrada focused on migration to the United State of America to make money to support their families.…
Starbucks was able to find a $3 million funding from the U.S. Agency for International Development (USAID) to help build a research facility in Manizales, Colombia, to make sure that the get closer to the farmers, and have them received good training to become more knowledgeable on how to produce the best beans possible. The funds will also help pay for agronomists to analyze soil and inform growers on factors that affect profit and yield, including fertilizers, climate and pests. This move guaranteed that Starbucks gets the best beans possible, and directly from its source. In this way, Starbucks and farmers would get better prices and a guarantee production. At the same time, a sort of “lobbying” was going on in the political arena, where licenses, permits, compliances, and due processes were somehow oversighted.…
Starbucks’ community involvement includes environmental responsibility, which is best exemplified in “All partners should seek ways to proactively address the environmental impacts of our operations and incorporate the principles of the environmental mission statement into their work.” In addition to community involvement, Starbucks values integrity in an effort to prevent conflicts of interest, maintain accurate books and records, and honesty in disclosures. Finally, Starbucks values respect, much like Target, in the workplace and its store locations. Respect in the workplace comprises partners being entitled to work in an environment that is free of harassment, bullying and discrimination. In terms of customer service, employees must treat customers with respect.…
The 1993 film, The Firm, is about revealing the business environment as a cut-throat competitive and money driven realm of society that is faced with many personal and business ethical issues. In this essay, we will discuss The Firm’s multiple situations of corruption and deceit as it relates to business ethics concepts demonstrated by James Brusseau (2016); the decisions made and alternative outcome; the reasons why the character made his choices according to Kohlberg’s theory of moral development; and the results behind those decisions. The major business ethical issues identified in this movie are: theories of duties and rights involving perennial duties we owe to ourselves and others and categorical imperative, something we need to do…
1. The key audiences in the Blue Bell crisis plan are: - Families - Older adults - Young adults - Children - Ice cream fanatics - Blue Bell enthusiasts - Stock holders - Investors 2. After careful examination of the Blue Bell press releases, their social media and press conferences, the continuing theme of the organization focused on a few key points for its target audience. Those key points Blue Bell focused on included: - Finding the root cause of the listeria contamination that were found in some of Blue Bell’s ice creams.…
Task 3A All companies have factors that affect the success of their business in the market. These are the political, legal, and social factors. This means that these three factors are given top priority in order for the companies to gain success. They have to conduct market investigation which will help these businesses to gather information to help their process of decision making in the market.…
Starbuck is has policies that guide its coffee purchasing, processing and selling. Through Coffee and Farmer Equity practices, the company is able to effectively manage the farmers. All the suppliers must conform to the business ethics cherished by Starbucks. Through social responsibility, the company is able to reach out to the surrounding community and manage it.…
3.0 Starbucks Porter’s Five Forces Analysis Porter’s five forces is generally used for strategy development and industry analysis. The five forces which shapes the competition within the industry are rivalry among competitors, the threat of substitute products and services, the entry of new competitors, the bargaining power of the buyers and the bargaining power of the suppliers. The relationships among these forces is best presented in the following figure. Bargaining Power of Buyers Threat of substitutes Industry Rivalry Threat of new entrants…