...Hi my name is Margie Lutvey.I am here today to provide recommendations and strategies for your business, Monsanto, through identifying the key problems and issues and provide you with a stakeholder management strategy that I find would be most effective for you and your organization. I will mainly be discussing the ethical dilemmas of sustainability faced by your company and the potential impacts its can have on you stakeholders. Stakeholders are any group or individual who can affect or is affected by a firms objectives. Firms and organisations are better able to achieve their strategic objectives if they engage with their stakeholders. With engaging with stakeholders it is also a building block for better decision-making and minimizing negative impacts on third parties and doing the right thing. Stakeholders don’t have to be equity shareholders. They can also be your employees, communities, pretty much anyone who has a stake in your company’s success and incentive for your products to succeed. They can be business partners, who rely on your success to keep the supply chain going. Therefore it is important to engage stakeholders in business activity as they have the power to hold a viable “stake” in your company. It is important to engage with stakeholders to keep a good relationship with them. Stakeholders can have a negative and or a positive effect on the organization. A positive attitude makes it easier for the organization such as Monsanto to create potential sponsors,...
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...* HOW DO CULTURE AND OTHER FACTORS AFFECT THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF A COMMUNITY? * HOW DO CULTURE AND OTHER FACTORS AFFECT THE LEADERSHIP OF A COMMUNITY? * WHAT ARE EXAMPLES OF SOCIAL NETWORKS AND ETHNIC ORGANIZATIONS THAT A COMMUNITY BUILDER CAN USE TO LEARN ABOUT THE SOCIAL ORGANIZATION OF A GROUP AND TO IDENTIFY AND ENGAGE ITS LEADERS? * WHAT ARE SOME OF THE COMMON CHALLENGES THAT A COMMUNITY BUILDER MIGHT FACE WHEN WORKING IN A DIVERSE COMMUNITY? In order to work effectively in a culturally and ethnically diverse community, a community builder needs to first understand how each racial and ethnic group in that community is organized in order to support its members. It is not uncommon to hear a community leader, a funder, a political representative, or a service provider say, "We were not able to engage that group over there because they are not organized. They have no leaders. We need to organize them first." This statement is not always accurate; most groups have their own network of relationships and hierarchy of leaders that they tap into for mutual support. These networks or leaders may not be housed in a physical location or building that is obvious to people outside of the group. They may not even have a label or a title. There is an unspoken understanding in some groups about when and whom they should turn to among their members for advice, guidance, and blessing. Once a community builder understands the social organization of the group, it will become easier...
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...to the owner. You want to analyze the instructions on how to make the product work (essentially, the buttons that the owner has to engage in order to program the VCR). Consider the frailties of the human information processing system (perceptual systems, learning systems, and memory systems ). It is apparent that the design of the VCR ignores some bottlenecks endemic in the information processing system. Write an analysis of how the product could be re-designed so that the consumer could engage the VCR more productively. The analysis should go into some depth in identifying the problem and the recommended solution . You should identify specifically the problem(s) and how your proposal solves the problem(s). The wise student would focus on one or at most two issues. In this given example of Sony Video Cassette Recorder (VCR), the issue in which the company faces is that the company is not being user friendly in providing the set of instruction to the user. The manual is presented with a lot of technical terms that will impede the learning process of the users. In addition, these technical jargons will result in users having to make a deliberate effort in deciphering the meaning of these terms before being able to commit to their memory, a condition known as effortful processing. For their consumers to engage the VCR more productively, Sony needs to understand the learning patterns and memory capabilities of their consumers. Sony should be more user friendly...
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...section and assess it using the RADAR methodology and the EFQM requirements of the Leadership criteria. Then write 1. Two strength areas (things ARGO did well as related to applying the requirements stipulated in the criteria or the RADAR) Answer: 1C. Leaders engage with external stakeholders. Looking at the points as mentioned in the criteria for 1C, ARGO ID has done quite well in accordance with the application of the criteria and keeping it up. ARGO has a small a customer base of large organizations and they don’t find it difficult to reach them, hence they can understand and respond to the customer’s expectations and needs. Moreover, the four senior managers including ARGO ID CEO manages themselves with their important customers which helps them understand customer’s apprehensions and concerns. ARGO ID CEO while visiting their key customers found out complaints about the Utilities’ department regarding unexpected interruptions due to bad weather conditions. So, with the help of ARGO’s customers, improvements were seen in the simplification of the tendering process and introducing billing by email for key customers etc. This shows ARGO’s compliance with the criteria’s second point which says that leaders should establish such approaches which would involve partners, customers and society in creating new concepts and improvement. ARGO uses Strategic Partnership initiative to maintain long term relationships with their suppliers which would be of shared benefit. 2...
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...from the start. “The whole consulting process begins and ends with the client,” Cope writes. “And it is imperative you apply sufficient time and energy to understanding the person as well as the problem.” Cope helps the reader consider several aspects of working with clients. At the end of each section, he asks a “back pocket question” that should be considered during a project, such as, “Am I able to view the problem as the client sees it?” All the questions are printed on a Seven Cs “pocket guide” that you can tear out of the book and take with you to assignments. “Trade is a social Act”. • Orientation – Viewing the problem as the Client sees it (including their perception) • Desired Outcome – Bringing clarity of the desired outcome (the real value and not just an end-state) • Change Ladder – Removing the fog from the problem by focusing on where change may be required • Situation Viability – Studying if the issue can be successfully resolved and see if the timing is right for change • Decision Makers – Having a clear picture of the decision makers who can influence the initial stages of contract development • Ethos – Considering if the changes will be coercive or participative in Nature • Contract – Establishing a contract that sets out a framework for action and measurement Clarify – Understanding the Real Issues 2. Clarify—understanding the real issues. Cope quotes Claude Levi-Strauss: “The wise man doesn’t give the right answers; he poses the right questions.” According...
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...Chapter 5 Social Responsibility and Ethics How important is it for organizations and managers to be socially responsible and ethical? In this chapter, we’re going to look at what it means to be socially responsible and ethical and what role managers play in both. Focus on the following learning outcomes as you read and study this chapter. LEARNING OUTCOMES 5.1 Discuss what it means to be socially responsible and what factors influence that decision. 5.2 Explain green management and how organizations can go green. 5.3 Discuss the factors that lead to ethical and unethical behavior. 5.4 Describe management’s role in encouraging ethical behavior. 5.5 Discuss current social responsibility and ethics issues. SPOTLIGHT: Manager at Work Chapter 5 presents contemporary concepts of managerial ethics and social responsibility to help your students explore and appreciate the critical role of these issues in today’s complex business environment. In the opening case, “A Manager at Work,” we see firsthand the complications that arise when companies are caught in the middle of unethical and illegal allegations. The case revolves around allegations of attempted bribery by three Renault executives. After an investigation, all three of the employees were dismissed, but the story doesn’t end there as the Paris prosecutor in charge of the case later dismissed the charges for lack of evidence. Renault would eventually backtrack on the firing of the executives, rehiring all three...
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...1992, Mr. Esrock moved into the operations side of healthcare. He went on to serve as a Chief Operating Officer (COO) with SSM Healthcare in St. Louis. He served the St. Louis community for 15+ years. He later moved to Lubbock, Texas as a COO where he aided in building a new hospital from the ground up. From Lubbock, he came to Providence Health Center in Waco, Texas and served as the COO for two years before being promoted as the CEO. This is his first time as a CEO of a health system. Mr. Esrock believes in building a cohesive team environment that will enable associates to meet both their personal goals and professional goals. He believes that using a collaborative team effort, will build a better healthcare for tomorrow. Managers should use a personal approach and not a dictatorship approach to management. Planning There are many ways to set objectives for organization. There are also things to be taken into consideration to determine the best objectives for the organization. Mr. Esrock believes that the very...
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...The May issue of the Harvard Business Review offers up an ethics problem in its monthly case study: World-Class Bull (subscription required for full article). The three commentaries offer very different reactions to the facts presented in the case study’s fact pattern. John Humphreys, Zafar U. Ahmed, and Mildred Pryor penned the fact pattern. The case study revolves around the acquisition of a new customer. The existing sales agent was having no luck. A hot shot salesman took on the challenge by using the customer’s love of livestock to generate the relationship and close the sale. On one hand, you need to applaud the salesman for learning more about the customer and how to engage the customer in a relationship. The ethical issue arises because of the apparent subterfuge of the salesman in engaging the customer and developing the relationship. The ethical issue is raised to a higher level when the sales manager sends an email to the entire sales team applauding the salesman and describing all of the subterfuge in detail. James Borg, author of Persuasion: The Art Of Influencing People, lauds the salesman for taking the steps to engage the customer on a personal basis. However, he thinks the sales manager should “be hauled in front of the company’s Idiocy Review Board for sending an ill-advised, potentially damaging e-mail.” Don Peppers and Martha Rogers, the coauthors of Rules to Break and Laws to Follow: How Your Business Can Beat the Crisis of Short-Termism, flat...
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...John Ertel Unit 1 Assignment 1 Sherri T. Roberts EN1420 - Composition II 9/25/2012 Unit 1 Assignment 1 1. What did you think when you encountered the word argument as you began to read this chapter? What do you think now? A. When I first encountered the word “argument” in this chapter, I immediately thought of the shouting matches that I would so often engage in with my father. However, upon further reading, I have discovered that in reality, argument means any subject upon which there is the possibility of having more than one view or standpoint. 2. Provide three examples of your own to illustrate the statement “Argument is everywhere.” One of your examples should be a visual argument. A. Argument is everywhere. This statement is evidenced by the fact that people everywhere are arguing. Whether is be about Romney's inane babble, or the fact that Obama hasn't fixed the Universe yet, people continue to argue their side of any disagreement. Another good example is bow ties. Some people think that bow ties are not cool. These people would be wrong because bow ties are in fact, very cool. 3. Describe traditional and consensual argument. Give two examples of each. A. Traditional argument is based around winning. It is where two parties are engaged in an argument, not with the goal of convincing the other party that they are right, but instead trying to prove that the other party is wrong. An example of consensual argument is where a group considers all sides of...
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...Quiz 1- Write a reflection paper of no more than 350 words based on the Career Plan Building Activities completed throughout this course. In the paper, consider the following questions: What are the next steps in your career plan? What milestones have you established in the Career Plan to monitor your progress towards your career goals? Why do you think these steps are important in helping you progress? How can you focus your time and attention in future courses based on your career competencies and goals? Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. 2- Read Case Application 1, “Lessons from Lehman Brothers: Will We Ever Learn?” at the end of Ch. 5 of Management. Discuss the scenario with your team. Discuss the second, third, and fifth discussion questions at the end of the case with your team. Answer each question based on your team’s discussion in no more than 350 words per question. Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment. 3-1. As a university student, your institution’s social principles and practices reflect on you, as a stakeholder, in the organization. Therefore, it is your right to question how these practices should be evaluated in relation to the social issues that your school is addressing. If your university was paying minimum wage when necessary and applying the minimum legal standards to its employees’ work environment, it would be said to have fulfilled its ________. social obligation social responsibility ...
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...a) Explain the moral issues surrounding euthanasia. Euthanasia is a painless, peaceful and lucid death who some agree to be moral while others consider the complex issues surrounding the procedure. These issues include religious perspectives such as the sanctity of life argument and concern for quality of life, autonomy and personhood. The sanctity of life proposal stands strong for those who adopt Judaeo-Christian values because they believe that God is the only one who can take or give life because he has created all humans imago dei (Genesis 1:27). It builds on this idea that life is sacred and holy and that “everything that happens in this world happens at the times God chooses” (Ecclesiastes 3:1-2). Of course, the ultimate Christian belief is found in the Decalogue, Exodus 20:13 “Thou shall not kill”, an objective and uncompromising law. Therefore, if a doctor were to conduct voluntary euthanasia he would be destroying Gods creation and taking a holy life of which he has no right to take irrespective of whether that person has asked to die. Natural law accepts this stance of euthanasia because it also adopts a very Catholic position and would reject euthanasia because it violates the primary precepts (don’t die and worship God). These are absolutes that should not be broken and consequently cannot take into account certain circumstances such as those in terminally ill health. Cases such as Dianne Pretty would be denied her autonomy and right to make her own decision...
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...Barack Obama spoke about many different issues. In this paper, I will review and evaluate President Barack Obama’s State of the Union Address using the two checklists from Catherine Smith’s book entitled, Writing Public Policy. I will evaluate if President Obama’s speech addresses a specific audience about a specific problem, the purpose related to a specific policy action, that it represents authority accurately, uses the appropriate form and design for use. I will also review the clarity, correctness, conciseness and credibility of President Obama’s State of the Union Address. Features of Effectiveness President Obama’s State of the Union speech addressed a specific audience about specific problems. The audience is composed of Senators, Democrats, and Republicans. The President’s speech is the final report on the State of the Union. President Obama’s speech...
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...Transformation Centre of Excellence, KPMG and Hayley Brown, Talent Intelligence Analyst, Europe, Middle East and Africa (EMEA), for AVON Cosmetics, discuss the results of a survey and how HR needs to be able to use analytics to prove its own value to the business ------------------------------------------------- Transcript Philippa Lamb: According to a recent CIPD survey two in every three HR leaders believe they play an integral role in strategy making at the organisations where they work. The bad news is that only one in three business leaders agrees with them. So what’s causing that perception gap? Is HR overestimating the value it adds or is the profession just failing to demonstrate that value to senior management in a convincing way? I asked Peter Cheese Chief Executive of the CIPD why he thinks so many business leaders still don’t see HR as integral to strategy. Peter Cheese: It’s still therefore a reflection of the concern we’ve talked about for many years in the world of HR about how do we get the proverbial seat at the table, seen to be integral. It clearly has to be still a reflection that whatever business leaders feel is on their agenda HR is not either able to engage with that agenda or use the language that makes business leaders understand why, what HR people worry about should be part of the agenda but we still clearly haven’t fully closed that loop and I think in the context of this conversation part of it is still being able to talk in more quantitative...
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...sexual orientation (King).” This quote by Coretta Scott King is how the workplace should feel about discrimination against those who have a different sexual orientation. Sexual orientation discrimination is a rapidly growing issue in today’s workplaces. Just like sex, age, and race discrimination it is becoming one of the major issues that is present in the workforce. With the growing news media issues like gay marriage and “Don’t ask don’t tell”, this is becoming another one of the areas employers are and have been discriminating against workers. There are many state laws to discourage this type of discrimination, but as of right now there is not a federal law that protects against sexual orientation discrimination. I am sure in time there will be some form of federal protection, but only time will tell. As part of the Lesbian Gay Bi Transgender (LGBT) family, I have seen firsthand how this discrimination has and continues to negatively affected people’s lives. When people are singled out for any reason and discriminated against, it makes me think “are we really in the land of the free?” Just as Ms. King’s quote stated, if we believe in freedom we need to take a stand against the injustice. We should be free to live the life we chose and love who we chose to love without the fear of intolerance. As long as we do the job we are asked to do at or above what is expected, there should not be any issues. But in today’s society, there are. The purpose of this paper is...
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...prefers to watch “girlie” cartoons and movies rather than things that should appeal to boys. Is he going to be gay or does he truly want to be a girl?” Kids experimenting with their gender roles are completely normal and it’s around age four and five when children begin understanding (generally) what makes them a boy or a girl. This means this developmental period is even more important for parents to cherish and foster, not restrict and forcibly shape. “The greatest difficulty for children and adolescents who are homosexual or who identify with the opposite sex is the social pressure they feel to behave heterosexually, and the discrimination they may experience because of their sexual orientation or gender identification. This may isolate them from their peers and even their family, and their self-esteem and self-confidence can suffer terribly in the process. A large proportion of teenage suicide attempts are linked to issues of gender confusion and to perceived rejection of an adolescent with a homosexual orientation.” (Schor) Children at your son’s age play with toys of the opposite sex; they are discovering their gender identity. Some children just grow out if it and their gender identity is that as the sex they were born; then there are children who truly feel as if they are in the wrong body and their gender identity is that of the opposite sex. “Kohlberg's theory of gender identity development describes how young children learn to understand their gender, and what being...
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