Individual Current Ethical Issues Paper
Francis Valentino III
XMGT/216
August 21, 2011
Deborah Mc Cafferty Our founder Kathy Kudler established the Kudler Fine Foods Corporation in 1998 after working as a vice president for a defense contractor. She loved gourmet cooking, which she used to relive stress. She soon realized that there was potential for an upscale food place in La Jolla and put together a business plan and six months later the first Kudler Fine Foods opened (Kudler fine foods, 2010). After two years the company opened a second store and a third one three years later. As the company grows and more employees are hired, the need for a new ethics program is required. There have been instance of bad ethics in departments so the only way that the company can get back on track with the great ethical behavior this company was founded on. These issues are if a grievous nature and will be described in the following paragraphs. Please pay close attention to what is being discussed, as any transgressions after this report will be dealt with severely. The major focus is on employee reviews. It has been brought to our attention that after employees are finished writing their reviews, they have not been having their supervisors review and sign the review. This is an unethical violation of company policy. We believe that this destroys the connection between managers and employees. The self-review gives the employee an opportunity to show how they think of themselves and their job performance. Then the manager takes this information and has a better understanding of the employee and how they see themselves at work. If they two coincide then the manager knows that the employee understands their job, works well with others and takes direction. If they two have differing opinions about job performance, then the manager can discuss, critique, criticize and