1. “How would you characterize Chiquita’s historical approach to global management?” For Chiquita, historically the organization appeared to prefer a profoundly centralized, a ethnocentric method for global management, with a heavy focus on profitableness. Moreover, there was limited if any hiring of the committee staff from the local workforce within Latin America. The corporation favored transplanting their crew to administer orders. There was not a valid application of a group of advisers, but the corporate level managers whom could be categorized as extremely tight-lipped and mysterious. Not one person on the upper plane of the firm was considered accountable for the base levels of the operation. This course may have occurred internally …show more content…
Chiquita 's corporate responsibility (CR) program is no exception and indeed creates conflict between the stakeholders and the shareholders. That is natural when a corporation takes new action of any type. In this case, an ethical action is being placed in the interest of stakeholders. Explaining this to shareholders is important which displays a new transparency attitude of being upfront with how the company is trying to do good to their stakeholders. It is part of balancing the two sides of the conflict. Chiquita 's proposal originates by the organization 's latest four distinctive marks: integrity, respect, opportunity, and responsibility. The firm integrated external standards in their program, including Social Accountability (SA) 8000, along with the company 's "Better Banana Project Principle of Fair Treatment and Good Conditions for Workers." Since countries like Latin America signify below the ethical measures as the standards found within the U.S., accommodating SA8000 standards enables Chiquita to raise the bar on food safety, which is important to prevent sickness, labor standards to support human rights, and employee health and safety for
Chimerix’s initial and final decision contributes to the company’s reputation as viewed through ethical lenses and adherence to the Benedictine values. The ultimate goal of a company should be to fulfill a set of ethical conduct while maintaining a profit. Chimerix underwent a transition in the case of Josh concerning the values it upheld. Some core principles o...
The 'Standard' of the 'Standard'. Kallen, Stuart A. Food Safety. Detroit: Greenhaven, 2005. http://www. Print.
The Meat Inspection Act of 1906 was an attempt to regulate the meatpacking industry and to assure consumers that the meat they were eating was safe. In brief, this act made compulsory the careful inspection of meat before its consummation, established sanitary standards for slaughterhouses and processing plants, and required continuous U.S. Department of Agriculture inspection of meat processing and packaging. Yet, the most important objectives set by the law are the prevention of adulterated or misbranded livestock and products from being commercialized and sold as food, and the making sure that meat and all its products are processed and prepared in the adequate sanitary and hygienic conditions (Reeves 35). Imported meat and its various products are no exception to these conditions; they must be inspected under equivalent foreign standards.
Fr Jose Maria Arizmendiarrieta, a Catholic Priest, founded the Mondragon Corporation, a cooperative in the Basque region of Spain in 1956. The region suffered greatly during the Spanish Civil War (Thomson, 2010) and Fr Jose felt it his calling to help his regions people recover, allowing them to continue to support themselves. Fr Jose’s motive was to promote individuals’ moral character as well as social justice through the creation of a new kind of work place, one that encouraged hard work, cooperation, shared rewards, and individual responsibility. At the same time, he sought to generate employment and income in a region that had been impoverished by war, dictatorship and neglect (Lafuente, 2012). The initial cooperative was successful and from that much other cooperative business emerged in industries including banking, manufacturing, distribution and education. The Mondragon Corporation multiplied until it became the biggest employer in the region (Witzel, 2003). The Mondragon Corporation now consists of over 82,000 people in an integrated group of so...
The Coalition for Humane Immigrant Rights of Los Angeles also known, as CHIRLA is a Los Angeles based organization that focus their attention on immigrant rights. This organization works towards serving people and institutions to achieve power, transform the public’s opinion, and to fully realize labor, civil, and human rights. Furthermore, CHIRLA aids undocumented immigrants “towards the pathway of citizenship while informing them about their rights in the workforce”. In addition, the organization is financially supported by the Ford Foundation whom advocates towards educating immigrants about the policies and laws of the Control Act and the Immigration Reform. As a result, CHIRLA focuses on the political advocacy, community organization,
Corning shifted their focus from a domestic and exporting company to a multinational manufacturing company. The lack of specialization and ambiguous leadership imposed by the Houghton family faced the problem of a required organizational structure change. However, changing the corporate structure while imposed by these demands led to an inefficient structure hybrid structure that refuses to give specialized responsibilities to MacAvoy as a Chief Operating Officer, as he has to not only watching over operations globally, but is solely in charge of the North American market, creating an inefficiency with the Chief International Officer.
- Ensuring the quality of import goods by upholding regulated standards, especially where health risk concerns are at the forefront (i.e., bottom dwellers) (Carter, 2001).
There were separate management structures maintained in the group with the CEO of NOL in Singapore and CEO in the United States reporting to the group CEO. This separation between owners and manager creates an agency relationship. This exist when one or more persons (the principal or principals) hire another person or persons) as decision making specialist to perform a service. In the modern corporation, managers must understand the links between
Different types of foods are regulated under state and federal food laws and are subject to the Food Standards Australia New Zealand (FSANZ) food standards code. Step two involves ensuring the formulation of food complies with the Food Standards Code. The formulation of functional foods must comply with the requirements under the FSANZ food standards code in order to be marketed in Australia. Some of the following standards require businesses to consider these requirements: substances added to foods, contaminants and residues, food produced using gene technology, microbiological limits in food, etc. Step three involves the avoidance of making therapeutic claims when marketing functional foods.
The main aim of the Yum! maintain the food safety as a top priority with highest quality food supply and their restaurant food safety systems includes standards and training of restaurant employees which includes health of the employee, ingredients, product temperature management and product handling with sourcing of the freshest food material from an environmentally and socially responsible agricultural supply chain. Brand strategy centers on four key important pillars: People, Food, Community and Environment. To follow the strategy and to work on the mentioned pillars for achieving the common goals, Yum! following:- Present an annual CSR report Transparent and clear report on progress with key stakeholders (internal and external) To identify the opportunities for improvement and efficiency in the process To develop the programs and outcome strategies that address and overcome all challenges which the company faces. Importantly, by observing that the world economy is a distinct market, which consists of three divisions: international division, semi-international division and a district division.
An organization’s Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) drives them to look out for the different interests of society. Most business corporations undertake responsibility for the impact of their organizational pursuits and various activities on their customers, employees, shareholders, communities and the environment. With the high volume of general competition between different companies and organizations in varied fields, CSR has become a morally imperative commitment, more than one enforced by the law. Most organizations in the modern world willingly try to improve the general well-being of not only their employees, but also their families and the society as a whole.
Although primary objective for managers is to maximise shareholders’ wealth, but many firms are started to focus on other stakeholders’ interests in recent years. Company can prevent transfer the damage of stakeholders’ wealth to shareholders when focus on stakeholders’ interests. In other words, “social responsibility” for the companies is to maintenance stakeholders’ relations in order to provide long-term interests to shareholders. By this way, conflict, turnover and litigation of stakeholders can be minimise. Obviously, company can achieve their primary objective by cooperation with stakeholders instead of conflict with stakeholders (Smart, Megginson, Gitman, 2002).
The third weakness is the fact that food tests, inspections, and the detection of contaminants are taken seriously only after an outbreak of some food-borne diseases, food poisoning, or deaths. The increase in the number of food establishments or outlets such as cold stores, hypermarkets, and supermarkets reported by the Public Health Director has also made inspection and control mo...
Unnevehr, L. (2006) Food safety as a global public good: Is there underinvestment? Available at: http://ageconsearch.umn.edu/bitstream/25733/1/pl06un01.pdf [Accessed: 20 April 2014]
Handling, processing, and preparation such as (cooking, cooling, reheating, holding/service) should be controlled to ensure that the food is not contaminated in any way.