...to increase security. Installing cameras or hiring security guards to stand outside the store or patrol inside would show their customers that they are concerned for the safety of those shopping there. Company Q could also could work with other business owners and city government to makes changes to the area surrounding the store. These changes could include a well lit store front, friendly employees, and a well organized store. Company Q would have to make enough improvements to show their customers they care. This could have increased sales and possibly saved the company from closing the two stores. When asked about donating their day old food to the local food bank, the company refused and chose to throw away the food. Their decision came from worries that there could be possible fraud or stealing by the employees who might say they are donating the food, but taking it for themselves. This proves the company has a very poor ethical framework. Mainly showing their lack of trust in their employees. By setting rules beforehand, the company can eliminate any concerns by training their...
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...boosters or an advisory board. What this study showed is that if people were, given notice that someone would could by their house and ask for donations there was a higher chance of no one being home or answering the door. I would give them some numbers on what they study showed so that they could understand what I am saying even more. The study showed that there was a 10 to 25 percent less donating when advanced notice was given. So I would tell them to not give people advanced notice of when they would be going door to door asking for donations. I would tell them to “put people on the spot.” Many people feel obligated to give if they are put on the spot because they do not want to seem like a bad person. However if the organization felt that putting people on the spot was wrong and unethical and insisted on having a flyer giving advanced notice. I would tell them to not include an opt-out or do not disturb option on the flyer. The study showed that having a flyer on the door did not increase or decrease willingness to donate to the cause. When there was an opt-out or do not disturb option, donating decreased by about 30 percent. I would also tell them to hit their own state harder than out of state as people are going to be more willing to donate to a charity or organization in their home state. People are also less likely to donate through mail or internet means. Only one household out of the almost 8,000 households in the study donated through those means. So I would tell them to...
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...Donating is a grand opportunity that gives many individuals hope. Hope the most powerful idea that can completely change a person’s mentality (“Editorial”, 2007). When individuals (recipients) who are waiting for an organ get informed about this, organ donating cause, they have hope that others will want get involved and donate. When individuals are told that they might die because an organ has stopped functioning, most individual’s freeze they do not know what to do in this new situation. Their main focus is centered on the idea that they might not live anymore and this can be an overwhelming feeling, not to mention the stress it puts on the family and individual to seek help financially. Many of the recipients feel overwhelmed by the whole...
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...closing the stores. These would be economic impact of laying people off, distance to the next store, profit/loss from the physical property, and public image. Company C also hurts their public image by declining to donate day old products. They cite that they are worried about employees stealing the items instead of donating them. The issue here is trust of employees who they depend on to run their stores and interact with their customers. Company Q has a responsibility, ethically, morally and socially, to provide the best customer service to the community. They need to make sure that they tend to all of these responsibilities. Part B: Company Q needs to develop a plan to make a positive impact in their communities through Social Responsibility. One of the first steps would be to work on employee engagement through teams or committees committed to establishing procedures for donating to the food bank. They could even sponsor a food drive to support the food bank. Another step would be to promote the health-conscience items and expand selection as they have high profit margins. Make sure that a system is in place to hear and act upon what the customer is asking...
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... This causes a problem especially for the poor, who do not have the extra money for extra expenses. I recommend the company take precautionary measures to help catch and promote others not to steal. They could do this by offering a reward, or installing cameras. This would help promote social responsibility within the company. Another very serious problem is the companies unwillingness to donate food for those in need. Especially since the company isn’t losing much or nothing at all by donating. The sudden unwillingness to donate is due to the distrust of the owners with the employees. They believe the employees will start to steal while saying they are donating it to the poor. This is yet another sign of a weak social responsibility within the company. These particular problems and fears are direct situations which concretely damages the social responsibility within the company, as well as the community. My personal recommendation is to draw out concrete guidelines and procedures that the employees have to follow before donating food. This would allow a company to gain trust within the employees as well as being benevolent towards the poor. Especially if cameras are involved employees tend to be more honest. They can also use an employee hiring technique that is based on a persons...
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...In school, a major key to success is learning to asking for help. Before high school, if I didn’t understand something, I would never ask for help. I felt like if I asked for help, it would make me look as if I wasn’t smart and that made me very self conscious. I have gotten better at asking for help because I have realized that you’ll never understand things if you don’t ask for help. When I was younger, I was very reserved when it came to trying new things. Doing something out of the ordinary and putting myself out there made me very anxious. A lot of that feeling stemmed from me worrying about other people’s opinions too much and I let that limit me. I have improved with this because of my job. As a lifeguard you will get criticism from people who don’t agree with how you handle situations, but you have to realize that that's one person of a room full of people, and you can’t let that hinder you. That’s a...
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...Finances HSM/240 October 12, 2014 Kisha Talbert Finances The Star of Hope is a Christ-centered community organization that is committed to meeting the needs of the homeless. They have a variety of different programs that have been implemented to assist in the encouragement of success positive life changes for the clients they serve. The programs services that are used to focus on the mission of the Star of Hope, includes; education, employment, life management, substance abuse and spiritual growth. Although the Star of Hope is dedicated to providing the services needed to transform the life of homeless, men, women, and their children, these services do not come without a price to the organization. The Star of Hope utilizes many different funding sources to support the program services, such as public and private donations, the United Way, churches, civic and community groups, corporations, grants and foundations. In addition there is also the memorial and tribute program, according to the Star of Hope this program gives people the opportunity to remember special individuals with a memorial or tribute gift. The wills and estate program, which allows a person, to plan a tax deductible gift to a ministry service or other charitable programs, and finally there is the stock donation program, which allows a person to transfer their donated stock directly to the organization for the full value. Technology has paved the way for online giving for individuals making cash...
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...EST1 TASK ONE JLO Part A Company Q is not currently behaving in a positive manner when it comes to social responsibility; in fact, they seem to take an “I don’t care” attitude. They have closed several stores in big metropolitan cities citing that the stores are located in high crime areas and the stores were not turning a profit, this is very irresponsible behavior as it takes jobs away from the community, and these areas, unfortunately are the ones that need it the most. For years customers had been inquiring about the company selling healthier, organic products in which Company Q eventually complied, however, the small limited selection and high mark ups kept the customers from buying ,in turn causing the company to not turn as much profit. Finally, instead of deciding to donate day old food to local food banks, Company Q made the poor decision of wasting it by throwing it out. Company Q has an almost nonexistent attitude towards social responsibility and needs to incorporate several changes in order to turn their position around in the community. Part B Company Q can implement several changes into their stores that may improve their attitudes towards social responsibility. 1. Company Q closed several stores citing the fact that they were in high crime areas, there is a possibility these stores could have been saved if the company had made proper evaluations to find out why these stores weren’t performing well. For example, if the stores were under performing...
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...Contributing to a Noble Cause Since 1881, The American Red Cross (ARC) has been trying to lessen the effects that major disasters have on people all over the world. The mission statement of the organization states, "The American Red Cross prevents and alleviates human suffering in the face of emergencies by mobilizing the power of volunteers and the generosity of donors" (redcross.org). The impact that donors and volunteers have on the ARC is substantial, and without those volunteers the ARC would not be able to help half as many people as they currently do because they would not have the resources to do so. The compassion that volunteers and donors have is what makes the ARC as successful as it is. Benefactors assist the ARC by donating personal...
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...Famine, Affluence, and Morality Giving to charity usually is viewed as a generous act, most people who give to charitable causes are held in high regard and thought of as good people, the question peter singer is asking us to consider in the article “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” is where is the moral grey area between charity and obligation when it comes to giving up what we have for others. Who in society decides what is good but not wrong to not do as charity is considered. I can achieve this by looking at Singers arguments, counterarguments and concept of marginal utility while comparing how duty and charity change in the article. The article opens by detailing the famine East Bengal is experiencing in 1971 in details and lists the causes of the Famine, and the number of refugees that amounts to roughly 9 million. Then he lists the affluent nations who are doing basically nothing to help these people, the citizens are not donating or protesting and the governments even if giving to the relief are not doing enough. “Generally speaking, people have not given large sums to relief funds; they have not written to their parliamentary representatives demanding increased government assistance; they have not demonstrated in the streets, held symbolic fasts, or done anything else directed toward providing there refugees with the means to satisfy their essential needs.”(Singer, 1972) From the start his first argument is that of the drowning child, he states that if he sees a...
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...When analyzing this article through the lens of integrated marketing communications I realized that there was a glaring contradiction in Wal-Mart’s overall message. For a company to have effective IMC a company must deliver a clear, concise message to all brand contacts consistently over a period of time. Wal-Mart doesn’t accomplish this task by any stretch of the imagination. It is a well-known fact that Wal-mart employees are not financially secure, most make “less than $25,000 per year.” Now the boss is asking them to donate what little they have to help eachother out? What’s up with that? At first glance you look at this article and you say “Wow look at how much that company really cares about it’s employees,” until you think about the situation and realize what is actually happening. The company isn’t donating their food, their money, their time or any of their resources to this drive, they’re asking their employees to do so when they have next to nothing to begin with. This really muddles the overall company message because they are essentially saying to their employees, we would like to help out but you earn what you earn. If you don’t like it and you can’t make ends meet, donate to each other to help one another out, while we sit back and pretend to care. I consider Wal Mart's Thanksgiving food drive to be a “half-baked” corporate ploy, an effort to diminish the public outcry on how Wal-Mart employees are being treated. It is a multi-billion dollar company’s feeble...
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...English 101 01 Aug 2012 World Hunger Someone knocks at your door. When you open the door you see a child, he seems small and malnourished. The child says that he has not eaten for two days. You are a little skeptical of the situation and ask where his parents are and he says, that they are homeless and that are living in a field nearby. As for you, you have just enough food to make it to your next payday yourself. You know that you could survive skipping a meal during the week to give up the child, surely the child is still alive after not eating for two days. A thought enters your mind, why should I give up my food or resources to this child. It’s not your fault that he has not eaten and why should you make yourself uncomfortable by giving up a meal. You send the child on his way. Garrett Hardin an ecologist and author wrote, “Lifeboat Ethics: the Case Against Helping the Poor” for Psychology Today (1974 Sept).Hardin would have also undoubtedly sent the child on his way. Hardin would argue that it not your fault and that you would not be helping the child by giving your recourses or food to help him. On the other hand an Australian philosopher and author Peter Singer wrote, “The Singer Solution to World Poverty” for The New Times Magazine, (1999 Sept) would have certainly given up the food and more to help the child and his family. Different as it may seem both Hardin and Singer are using the same philosophy just...
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...clean water for those who needed it most, but to an extent, I have also always felt the urge to help others. Coming from a Hispanic family and being able to go back to my parents’ country of origin has allowed me to view poverty in its most raw form. Growing up, I have always been aware that I am “lucky” and “blessed” as my parents say, to live in the United States and that I have never had to suffer through starvation or dehydration as many have. Since I had the opportunity of visiting my family in the Dominican Republic from a very early age, I was also able to create consciousness of the real problems faced by my fellow Dominicans. My mom had always taught me that donating was a great way to help others. And I could always recall my dad telling me stories about how if a beggar came to my grandmother’s door asking for clothes she would always give up the best she had because not only did she feel sympathy for these poor souls, she also felt that they needed to be respected. I agree with my grandmother because when one donates something it should be of high quality, something that one would wear without a problem, not the most broken and useless item of clothing one can find. My roots in charitable actions came from the compassion that was demonstrated amongst my own family. I had great examples of how one could help others and ever since I was a child, I had always felt that it was my duty, as someone who was fortunate enough to have everything she...
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...can also be cartoons, pamphlets, or websites. Historically, propaganda has been around for ages, used to sway an audience towards a belief or set of beliefs. Propaganda during World War I had several main themes: to recruit soldiers, to finance the war, and to spark nationalism. Without propaganda being fed to the masses, WWI would not have occurred on the same level as it did with the use of propaganda. The first way in which propaganda was used in the First World War was to get men to join the military in their respective countries. One recruitment poster features a father sitting in a chair with his daughter on his lap and his son by his feet. At the bottom, it says “Daddy, what did YOU do in the Great War?” The girl appears to be asking the question to her father, who is staring off into space. This, to me, suggests he did not serve in the war and feels regret for not doing so. This piece of propaganda appeals to the desire to leave behind a legacy. Traditionally, men were the protectors of their families, and to not fight for his country leaves a feeling of shame. The creators of this poster wanted to guilt men into feeling as though they had to serve in order to be the man society expects them to be....
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...Famine, Affluence, and Morality PHI208 Daniel Beteta March 25, 2013 Famine, Affluence, and Morality Giving to charity usually is viewed as a generous act, most people who give to charitable causes are held in high regard and thought of as good people, the question peter singer is asking us to consider in the article “Famine, Affluence, and Morality” is where is the moral grey area between charity and obligation when it comes to giving up what we have for others. Who in society decides what is good but not wrong to not do as charity is considered. I can achieve this by looking at Singers arguments, counterarguments and concept of marginal utility while comparing how duty and charity change in the article. The article opens by detailing the famine East Bengal is experiencing in 1971 in details and lists the causes of the Famine, and the number of refugees that amounts to roughly 9 million. Then he lists the affluent nations who are doing basically nothing to help these people, the citizens are not donating or protesting and the governments even if giving to the relief are not doing enough. “Generally speaking, people have not given large sums to relief funds; they have not written to their parliamentary representatives demanding increased government assistance; they have not demonstrated in the streets, held symbolic fasts, or done anything else directed toward providing there refugees with the means to satisfy their essential needs.”(Singer, 1972) From the start his...
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