...Ethical and Socially Responsive Business Diane Renae Turner Business 100 Dr. Kazem Khan, Ph.D Strayer University June 16, 2014 Abstract In this paper, we will look at the Ethical and Socially Responsive Business of Chipotle Mexican Grill. As the CEO of Chipotle I will explain key areas of our conduct code and its importance, and the steps we take to ensure our employees follow our code. I will then explain our commitment to social responsibilities to our community. Our conduct code is the foundation to our company, and we take great pride in teaching our employees so they will have the necessary tool to provide our customers with outstanding customer service. Chipotle believes in giving back to our community, doing this brings us closer to our customer and employees. Key areas of our conduct code One of our key areas of conduct for our company is integrity not only to our customer but for ourselves. We believe that integrity is the heart and soul of a successful company. ”Chipotle is a company based on integrity. Integrity is about being real and being honest. It means doing the right thing even when no one is watching. These values permeate the way we do, and do not do, business. You are expected to use good judgment, adhere to high ethical standards, and avoid situations that create an actual or perceived conflict between your personal interests and those of Chipotle. Chipotle requires that the transactions you participate in are ethical and within the law...
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...retention of top producers. It is imperative that employers understand the needs and listen to the concerns of their employees. The old way of conducting performance appraisals are no longer efficient because they are seen as outdated and cumbersome. Organizations should use technology especially the widespread acceptance of social networking as their new found way to communicate and provide feedback. This style of communication promotes comradery, supports inclusion and allows managers to perform better. It also supports the notion of 360 degree feedback but also provides the entire workforce an outlet to recognize accomplishment and seek guidance. I will attempt to explain and show how social media network performance systems are beneficial to the organization and their employees. Keywords: Social network, performance management, communication, generational workforce. Performance Review Takes a Page from Facebook Agree or disagree with this statement and provide reasons for your response. “If you have regular conversations with people, and they know where they stand, then the performance evaluation is maybe unnecessary” I disagree with the statement “If you have regular conversations with people, and they know where they stand, then the performance evaluation is maybe unnecessary”. Performance evaluations are not performed to just let an employee know where they stand. The...
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...TOPIC 2: Perception and its impact on communication, power and politics in organizations Introduction Organizations establishment function to fulfill needs of the people. In today’s competitive and yet challenging world, the organizations have to be growth-oriented. Organizations are composed of number of individuals working independently or in teams, and number of such teams makes a department and number of such departments makes an organization. It is a formal structure and all departments have to function in a coordinated manner to achieve the organizational objective [1]. The organization's base rests on management's philosophy, values, vision and goals. This in turn drives the organizational culture which is composed of the formal organization, informal organization, and the social environment. The culture determines the type of leadership, communication, and group dynamics within the organization. The workers perceive this as the quality of work life which directs their degree of motivation. The final outcomes are performance, individual satisfaction, and personal growth and development. All these elements combine to build the model or framework that the organization operates from. Perceived Behavioral Control is the individual’s belief concerning how easy or difficult performing the behavior will be. Pertaining to that matter, perception plays a key part in the organization behavior. Thus, factors such as the efficient of communication, use of power authority and empowerment...
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...Code of Ethics for Nurses in Australia Developed under the auspices of Australian Nursing and Midwifery Council, Australian College of Nursing, Australian Nursing Federation Introduction This Code of Ethics for Nurses in Australia has been developed for the nursing profession in Australia. It is relevant to all nurses at all levels and areas of practice including those encompassing clinical, management,education and research 1 domains. This Code is framed by the principles and standards set forth in the United Nations’ Universal Declaration of Human Rights, International Covenant on Economic, Social and Cultural Rights and International Covenant on Civil and Political Rights; the World Health Organization’s Constitution and publication series entitled Health and Human Rights; and the United Nations Development Programme Human Development Report 2 2004: Cultural liberty in today’s diverse world. In considering this Code and its companion, the Code of Professional Conduct for Nurses in Australia, it should be borne in mind that they are designed for multiple audiences: nurses; nursing students; people requiring or receiving nursing care; the community generally; employers of nurses; nursing regulatory authorities; and consumer protection agencies. It is also noteworthy that the concepts of ‘ethics’ and ‘morality’ are substantially the same and have been used interchangeably throughout this Code. This Code outlines the nursing profession’s commitment to respect, promote, protect...
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...Evaluate the pluralist view of the ownership and control of the mass media The mass media is the means by which messages and images are communicated to a mass audience, it does this through its various Mass Communication Technologies (MCTs), and for instance the Internet is a very powerful and influential MCT communicating worldwide. MCTs educate, persuade and inform as well as entertain their audience. Media is geographically dispersed and has no limits due to its global domination. It is also culturally diverse and socially mixed. Pluralists believe that the mass media is reflective of social reality, and acts as a 'mirror'. They state that it has a functional role in meeting the demands of its mass audience, and thus owes a duty to the people. Marxists on the other hand would argue that the media constructs desires and creates social reality. In other words it is a sculptor of a worldview and distorts social reality which is based on exploitation of a powerless majority, thus it is an ideological tool of the powerful bourgeoisie and reflects their interests. Over eighty percent of the media is owned by Trans National Corporations. But does ownership have any effect on the media coordinators? According to pluralists the answer is simply no. They back this by highlighting the fact that power is dispersed within society and that different pressure and interest groups all influence the media, which reacts accordingly. For instance Green Peace;...
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...Understanding Organisations and the role of Human Resources- 3HRC 1.2 Nwes provided a number of services across three entities, the three sectors of the business make up the company and supports its mission statement and Values “Encouraging Enterprise” The three sectors include Services, Property and World of work. Services initially provide direct support for clients who are looking to start up in self employment, offering free business advice and training. Property ties in well with services as we are able to offer clients who come to us for the support easy in, easy out tenancy in our premises across Norfolk, Suffolk, Cambridge and Essex, this gives them the opportunity to utilise professional offices for their new businesses. Our third entity is World of Work, also known as WoW which is a charity enabling us to provide work experience and educational packages for students. 1.2 Our main customers are young entrepreneurs looking for business advice for their ideas, although we attract a large variety of customers. Business ideas can vary from high end Solicitors to garden and maintenance, therefore the courses we provide are generalised so that we are able to support everyone. Nwes is a social Enterprise so that support we offer relies upon contracts that we win from either government or private entities. Either way we have to abide by guidelines, for example one contract we have recently gained is Start Up Loans, which is low rate loan for 18-30 year olds. Sometimes...
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...|(leileifun@msn.com) | |Bernard Ng |(conspecter121@hotmail.com) | |Queenie Chung |(queenie.chung@live.hk) | |Zoei Ti |(zoeiti_@hotmail.com) | |Julie Ma |(juliechiuyu@yahoo.com.hk) | |Winnie Yang |(yuanyuan280@gmail.com) | 1.3 Team Members: 1.4 Project Description: This Project brings together college volunteers, surplus food and free kitchen spaces to create nutritious meals for people affected by food poverty in Hong Kong. 1.5 Project Objectives: 1.5.1 Provide regular free meals to the social vulnerable groups in Hong Kong; 1.5.2 Alleviate food wastage in Hong Kong. 1.6 Target Community: 1.6.1 Hong Kong Sheng Kung Hui Welfare Council(香港聖公會福利協會); 1.6.2 Students from The Hong Kong Polytechnic University (tentative). 1.7 Demonstration of SIFE Principles: | |How will this be addressed? To whom will you teach these skills and how? | |Market Economics |Develop an understanding of their target market, the size of this market, supply and demand| | |issues, their customer supply chain. | |...
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...JOB STATEMENT: Assures that Head Start/Early Head Start family partnerships are effectively developed and documented by assuming direct responsibility for assigned families and assisting other staff in the two-county program to meet this standard. Additional duties involve motivating and assisting parents to take advantage of opportunities to have a voice in the administrative decisions of Head Start/Early Head Start and to participate in classes and workshops. ESSENTIAL FUNCTIONS: As a FAMILY SERVICES SPECIALIST I provided counseling to with parents or guardians to assist them to identify family strengths and to set specific goals to meet family needs; makes referrals for resources needed to meet goals. As the program specialist for Camp Zama Japan, it was a job within a small community that required versatility and strong awareness individuals’ needs and customs of varied situations in each house. I identified preexisting family plans with other community agencies and assures that those plans are coordinated with the family goals established with Head Start/Early Head Start. I provided follow-up with parents/guardians to determine when goals are met and when new goals need to be developed. I assisted and ensured in the processes of enrollment, transfer, and termination of Head Start/Early Head Start center children, to include obtaining all records for enrollment, sharing information with parents/guardians, recording information about enrollees, performed clerical...
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...COMMUNICATIONS STYLE INVENTORY This is an informal survey, designed to determine how you usually act in everyday related situations. The idea is to get a clear description of how you see yourself. On the answer sheet, circle A or B in each pair of statements below, which shows the one that MOST, describes you. 1. A) I’m usually open to getting to know people personally and establishing relationships with them. B) I’m not usually open to getting to know people personally and establishing relationships with them. 2. A) I usually react slowly and deliberately. B) I usually react quickly and spontaneously. 3. A) I’m usually guarded about other people’s use of my time. B) I’m usually open to other people’s use of my time. 4. A) I usually introduce myself at social gatherings. B) I usually wait for others to introduce themselves to me at social gatherings. 5. A) I usually focus my conversations on the interests of the people involved, even if that means straying from the business or subject at hand. B) I usually focus my conversations on the tasks, issues, business, or subject at hand. 6. A) I’m usually not assertive, and I can be patient with a slow pace. B) I’m usually assertive, and at times I can be impatient with a slow pace. 7. A) I usually make decisions based on facts or evidence. B) I usually make decisions based on feelings , experiences or relationships. 8. A) I usually contribute frequently to group conversations. B) I usually contribute infrequently to group conversations...
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...April Thomas Professor Robin Laukhuf Organizational Business 25 January 2015 Interesting approaches to teams and teamwork can be found in the workplace today and with organizations struggling to be flexible and responsive to a healthy work-life balance they have had to experiment with new information technologies. (Kreitner, Organizational Behavior pg. 316) This experimentation has led to virtual teams or physically dispersed task groups that conduct their business primarily through modern information technology and that exist outside normal channels of authority and communication. (Kreitner, Organizational Behavior pg.317) Virtual teams have become a product of modern times and Kilburg is demonstrating that he can still plan for the strategic growth of his company even by not being physically in the office, spending six weeks each summer in a beach house. With the information technologies such as the mobile internet, email, social media, and groupware he can be a member of his work team without really being there and still effectively manage. (Kreitner, Organizational Behavior pg. 317) As long as Kilburg’s employees feel properly supported by him then being out of the office can be redeeming in freeing up others to grow and develop on their own. If he has done his job then he has developed a motivated, passionate and responsible team that will produce whether or not he is there and in face to face contact with them. Kilburg feels as a competent boss that he has...
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..._________________________________ o Pre-course / o Main Assignment Lecturer: ________________________________ Received by: __________________________ National University of Ireland, Dublin Master of Science (MGT) Intake 33 Module: Organisational Behaviour Essay Title: Assignment 1 Submitted by: Muhammad Taufik Bin Supan Student Number: 14204786 Lecturer: Dr KC Chan Submission Date: 23rd December 2014 Word Count: 1625 Confirmation Certificate Congratulations! You have successfully completed the Library Plagiarism Quiz. Student Name: Muhammad Taufik Bin Supan Student Number: 14204786 Date: 18th December 2014 THIS IS TO CERTIFY THAT (signature)……………………… HAS COMPLETED THE PLAGIARISM QUIZ Remember that the confirmation certificate is a statement by you that you...
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...Chapter 1 Title: The Influence of Social Networking to College student and its effect to their study habits. Introduction Social networking is a conversation. The important thing in social media is the real people who use it. It's all about the C's. Creative, Competition, Community, Communication. It is a online conversation, which is organic and complex. Social media influences people. But those influences may cause either good or bad especially to the most popular group of people who are influenced by it, the college students. Background Social Networking is relatively young, but its history is incredibly long. From AOL Instant Messenger to Friendster to Google+, social networks has probably changed more in ten years than most people’s living room furniture changes in a lifetime. We define social network sites as web-based services that allow individuals to construct a public or semi-public profile within a bounded system, articulate a list of other users with whom they share a connection, and view and traverse their list of connections and those made by others within the system. The nature and nomenclature of these connections may vary from site to site. What makes social network sites unique is not that they allow individuals to meet strangers, but rather that they enable users to articulate and make visible their social networks. This can result in connections between individuals that would not otherwise be made, but that is often not the goal, and these meetings are...
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...Accounting and its role in society Accounting is concerned with collecting, analysing and communicating economic information (Atrill & McLaney, 2004, p1). However in order to develop a broader understanding of accounting and the central role it plays in society, we need to consider it from a social perspective. Individuals in society coexist by establishing relationships with each other. Another way of viewing society is by segmenting it into different groups or arenas, for example the social, economic, organizational and political arenas (Kyriacou, 2007, Lecture 1, p4). In order to function effectively, these different arenas need to communicate and it is accounting information that facilitates this communication. According to Kyriacou (2007, Lecture 1, p5) accounting information serves many important purposes, for example assisting users in making informed decisions, in relation to the effective allocation of scarce resources. Therefore accounting information can be seen to be a potent influence in society, which affects everybody. This is illustrated by the National Coal Board case (Cooper et al, 1985, p10) were the measurement of accounting profit was used to justify the closure of coal pits, causing an impact on electricity prices, jobs and taxes. Accounting has a long history and as demonstrated by Hines (1988, p251-261) it is seen as being socially constructed i.e. it is practised by people for people and therefore it is more of an art rather than a science. Unlike...
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...doc"). The Final Exam Answer Sheet is due by Friday, 1/21/11 at midnight--no exceptions. Multiple Choice Identify the choice that best completes the statement or answers the question. ____ 1. The real meaning of relationships is usually made up from: a.|everyday talk and nonverbal communication| b.|dramatic events that occur outside of the relationship| c.|emotional challenges that happen inside the relationship| d.|the advice we get from other friends| e.|the advice we get from "experts" in the field of relationship management| ____ 2. The statement that communication is systemic means that: a.|symbols construct our meanings| b.|communication changes over time| c.|there is a content level and a literal| d.|it is studied in an organized manner| e.|the various parts affect each other| ____ 3. The openness of a system is: a.|the extent to which a system strives to sustain equilibrium| b.|the extent of interaction within a system| c.|the extent to which a system affects and is affected by outside factors and processes| d.|the extent of absolute balance in a system| e.|the extent to which someone is willing to communicate| ____ 4. A father tells his son, "I don't care whether you like it or not, you are going to clean your room!" The relational level of meaning in the father's communication says: a.|the father has more power than his son| b.|the father wants the room cleaned| c.|the son won't clean his room without...
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...ANNOTATED LITERATURE REVIEW Use this table of contents for the model Literature Review to find the section(s) you want to look at. Introduction 2.1 Fathers – And a Secure Base 2.2 Fatherhood - The Changing Role 2.3 Feminist Theory – Gendered Roles 2.4 Fatherhood and its Complexities … 2.5 Fathers in other cultures 2.6 Working-Class Fathers … 2.7 Fathers and the Family Friendly Workplace 2.8 Research Question Chapter Two Literature review The literature relevant to research into fatherhood is diverse and describes some dynamically interactive elements constitutive of the social construction of fatherhood. This chapter provides a summary of those topics considered to be most relevant to the research problem. It begins with a discussion of the significance of the father to the development of children followed by a brief description of the changing role of fatherhood. This is followed by an analysis of gendered parenting roles and the contradictions that exist for men between dominant patriarchal views of fatherhood and those fathering behaviours that are resistant to dominant beliefs. A comparative analysis is provided through the examination of cross-cultural experiences followed by a discussion on oppression and resistance and the relevance of this to working-class men. Finally there is a review of the current literature on the development of Family...
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