...A toxic organization is an organization that has not given much importance the heart and soul of its people as much as its need for profits. In a toxic workplace, people report for work but perform their jobs with minimum effort. They go to work just to be given their salaries and they get out of the office as fast as they can. In a toxic workplace, many employees have high absenteeism and turnover. They submit poorly performed work and perform inefficient service which results in high customer complaints. Sometimes employees comment negatively about their colleagues. At times, verbal intimidation can be observed. More conflicts can be anticipated which results in foul and tactless language. They aren't cooperative in achieving the goals of the organization. They are not willing to work longer or render overtime when needed and give many excuses. The ethical deficit or the lack of knowledge and application of good business ethics manifested by the members and employees of a toxic organization can negatively affect their productivity. Workers in an unethical workplace are more likely to steal from their employees, engage in fraud, or participate in threats. These unethical and negative behaviors have contributed for revenue loss, reduced productivity and tarnished reputations. This kind of working environment results to a toxic ethical climate that results in the remaining ethical employees questioning themselves of the ethical dilemmas that they are facing. They are constantly...
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...The Toxic Workplace Organizational Behaviour Purpose: The purpose of this paper is to examine the inter-relationship of incivility and toxicity, how bullies are able to become toxic managers, and how they are allowed to develop in a toxic organization. We also analyze the development of organizational pain and how toxin handlers deal it with. Finally, we hope to assess if there is any validity to claims that ‘Generation Z’ is responsible for the recent prevalence of workplace toxicity. What is a toxic workplace? Overview of Toxicity: “Violence, aggression, bullying, tyranny, harassment, deviance, and injustice …” (Cortina 2001), the ‘magnificent seven’ anti-socialites comprising Workplace Toxicity. A relatively new field of study, the idea of workplace toxicity develops from the impact of bullying, and the emotional consequences it has on the organization. There has been surging interest over the past two decades on the cause and effect of bullying in the workplace (Rayner, 2002); and an ever-growing number of studies, since Leymann in 1990, would suggest that interest in this field may be attributed to the increase of disgruntled employees and employee violence which became prevalent in 1986 (the USPS incident in Edmond, Oklahoma). “There are three inevitable results of toxic workplaces: Poor Performance, Severe Health Issues, and the Loss of Talented Employees. “(Amy Scholten) A toxic workplace can be essentially summed up as any organization...
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...many companies share similar issues concerning waste removal, working conditions and health hazards to employees. Small companies in a city area release toxic chemicals into the environment with little concern that their small contribution will have any effect at all and never consider the bigger picture. Lyler Furiture is such a company plagued with best practice issues and violations of EPA regulations. With careful analysis of operational practices, investigations will provide structure corrections and deployment of best practices of plant operation. No company is above the law and understanding the operational process of Lyler Furniture will allow proper analysis to implementing environmental policies. Lyler Furniture operational workflow is sequential as many other manufacturing facilities. Materials are delivered in the loading bay, stored in the materials room until requested. Manufacturing department appropriates needed material from the material rooms for construction, and then the finishing room completes the manufacturing process with stains, paints, and finishes. After which, orders are processed in the office and finished products are loaded on delivering vehicles in the loading bay to complete consumers’ orders. During the operational process, numerous Environmental Protection Association (EPA) violations and poor work were discovered that could potential harm humans as well as the environment. Starting with the loading bay located in the rear of the...
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...& M wants to contribute to the society and the environment, so it implemented many projects and took many measures. For example, it has cooperated with UNICEF setting a project to protect the rights of some poor children all over the world (H&M and water. n.d.). Although H&M asserts that it is an ethical firm, there are still controversies exposed by the news. A Greenpeace campaigner, Frauzel, (2011) wrote a report to expose that H&M’s suppliers discharge toxic water into China’s rivers, and that H&M’s clothing contains hazardous substances and chemicals, even the children’s clothes. The following paragraphs will analyze the unethical issue and give the solutions and evaluations. The case The situation and key fact H&M has become a second largest fashion retailer, but it is criticized by the campaigners many times, such as in 2011, Frauzel (2011) reported that the clothes from H&M contained an amount of hazardous substances, such as nonylphenol, ethoxylates (NPEs) and the toxic nonylphenol (NP). Because these clothes contain chemicals, the water which is used for washing clothes would also contain chemical substances at the same time . And then the suppliers discharged the polluted water into China’s rivers, which can devastate the biological chain and food chain, and also can affect the people’s lives. Meanwhile, She mentioned that after the issue had been exposed, H&M committed to its customers that it would make a toxic-free production line to decrease pollution. However...
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...out of the 4.1 million babies born every year being exposed to dangerous levels of mercury ("Toxic Chemicals Threaten Our Health", n.d.). Children exposed to even low-dosage levels of mercury in the womb can have impaired brain functions, including verbal, attention, motor-control and language deficits as well as lower IQs. Coal-fired power plants spew hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic mercury into the air every year, which falls to earth in the form of rain and contaminates rivers, lakes, and streams ("Toxic Chemicals Threaten Our Health", n.d.). The clean air act will help prevent deaths and help save money. There have been no standards on power plants until the Clean Air Act ("Mercury And Air Toxics Standards In Oregon", n,d.). The coal-fired power plants spewed hundreds of thousands of pounds of toxic mercury into the air every year. The mercury contaminates rivers, lakes, and streams. Wildlife that’s exposed to mercury may develop slowly, have reduced fertility or even die. Scientists found that a gram of mercury – about a drop – deposited in a mid-sized lake in Wisconsin over the course of a year was enough to account for the mercury subsequently found in that lake’s fish population. Children monitored at ages seven and 14, these impairments still exist – suggesting that the damage cause by mercury may be irreversible. Most air toxics originate from human-made sources, including mobile sources (e.g., cars, trucks, buses) and stationary...
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...overthrown by military rebellions or are led by dictators. Pollution in many third world nations is unchecked and unrestricted. These countries suffer due to the poor environmental conditions. And the government continues to neglect countless other problems in these nations. Formation and enforcement of regulations related to environmental conditions would be catastrophic for a nation which is so much buried under the condition of poverty. So these countries have very limited choices such as either have basic needs to live or have healthy environment. If the choice is given this way, what would any one choose in countries that don’t have other options to consider? People choose to have needs instead of the environment because it consists of basic human needs such as food, water and shelter. Since pollution is unrestricted in several third world nations, the Western nations take advantage of this situation. Many Western countries dump garbage, toxic and hazardous wastes and untreated sewage flows into the rivers. Western countries are usually termed as First World nations. They include most of the countries of Western Europe, North America, Australia and Japan....
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...Impact of Toxic chemical There are many materials used in the workplace that can be hazardous. However, in order for them to affect your health, they must contact the body or be absorbed into the body. When assessing the potential health effects from working with a particular material it is necessary to understand difference between "toxicity" and "hazard". 1. TOXICITY is the ability of a substance to produce an unwanted effect when the chemical has reached a sufficient concentration at a certain site in the body. The more toxic a material is, the smaller the amount of it necessary to be absorbed before harmful effects are caused. The lower the toxicity, the greater the quantity of it necessary to be absorbed. The toxicity of a chemical is generally measured by experiments on animals (quite often rats). If it is measured in terms of the amounts of material necessary to cause death in 50% of the test animals. These values are called LD50 (lethal dose) or LC50 (lethal concentration), and are usually given in weight of material per kg of body weight or airborne concentration of material per set time period respectively. 2. HAZARD is the probability that this concentration in the body will occur. Toxicity is an inherent property of the material. A material may be very toxic, but not hazardous, if it is handled properly and is not absorbed into the body. On the other hand, a material may have a very low toxicity, but be very hazardous. Example: 1. An open container...
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...analyzing the present pool of employees. 2_identifying the area where women and minorities are underrepresented. 3_ establishing specific hiring and promotion goals. The Equal Pay Act of 1963: mandates that women and men who do equal work must receive equal pay. wages differences must allowed only if they can be attributed to: seniority performance qualifications The Americans With Disabilities of 1990: prohibits discrimination against people with disabilities and give them same opportunities as people without disabilities. Occupational Safety And Health Act of 1970: mandate that employers must provide safe and health working condition for all workers. Law Protecting The Environment: environmental protection laws have been enacted largely in response to concerns over business impact on the environment, which began to emerges in the 1960 the problem is the difficult to arrive at accurate monetary evaluation of environmental damage or physical pain and injury . in addition, people outside the business world often perceive such analyses as inhuman . Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) was created in 1970 to coordinate environmental agencies involved in enforcing the nation's environmental laws...
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...safety and security of those employed in business? There are number of legislations and regulations that make sure the working environment is safe place to work. Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 is to make that all employers provide healthy and safe workplace, this is for their employees but also for other people visiting the workplace. It also requires that the business does not give out any toxic substances into the public and general atmosphere. It requires employees to take reasonable precautions for the safety of others within the workplace as themselves. The Health and Safety at Work Act 1974 would have an impact on a business and as this would force them to make sure that the building that they are working at meets the standards of Health and Safety. This would include things like fire exits to make sure that the working environment is safe but also things like no smoking and smoking areas to make sure that the working environment is healthy. According to this Act the business is impacted as it needs to sort their cleaning products such as bleach or other products away from day to day work and this type of products were kept in a locked room to make sure that employees or people visiting the building would not be able to have access to them. Also their waste is collected and handled by a specialist company to make sure that all the toxics would be controlled by a specialist company and away from the business this would make sure that the business is health...
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...of the corporate to address the critical issues. The consequences are that (i) toxic materials enter the waste stream with no special precautions to avoid the known adverse effects on the environment and human health and (ii) resources are wasted when economically valuable materials are dumped or unhealthy conditions are developed during the informal recycling. The paper highlights the associated issues and strategies to address this emerging problem, in the light of initiatives in India. The paper presents a waste management system with shared responsibility for the collection and recycling of electronic wastes amongst the manufacturers / assemblers, importers, recyclers, regulatory bodies and the consumers. 1.INTRODUCTION The electronic industry is the world’s largest and fastest growing manufacturing industry (Radha, 2002; DIT, 2003). During the last decade, it has assumed the role of providing a forceful leverage to the socio - economic and technological growth of a developing society. The consequence of its consumer oriented growth combined with rapid product obsolescence and technological advances are a new environmental challenge - the growing menace of “Electronics Waste” or “e waste” that consists of obsolete electronic devices. It is an emerging problem as well as a business opportunity of increasing significance, given the volumes of e-waste being generated and the content of both toxic and valuable materials in them. The fraction...
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...together, it’s called the materials economy. Well, I looked into it a little bit more. In fact, I spent 10 years traveling the world tracking where our stuff comes from and where it goes.1 And you know what I found out? That is not the whole story. There’s a lot missing from this explanation. For one thing, this system looks like it’s fine. No problem. But the truth is it’s a system in crisis. And the reason it is in crisis is that it is a linear system and we live on a finite planet and you can not run a linear system on a finite planet indefinitely.2 Every step along the way, this system is interacting with the real world. In real life it’s not happening on a blank white page. It’s interacting with societies, cultures, economies, the environment. And all along the way, it’s bumping up against limits. Limits we don’t see here because the diagram is incomplete. So let’s go back through, let’s fill in some of the blanks and see what’s missing. Well, one of the most important things that is missing is people. Yes, people. People live and work all along this system. And some people in this system matter a little more than others; some have a little more say. Who are they? Well, let’s start with the government. Now my friends3 tell me I should use a tank to symbolize the government and that’s true in many countries and increasingly in our own, afterall more than 50% of our federal tax money...
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...What is electronic waste? Electronic waste or e-waste is a term for electronic products that have become unwanted, non-working or obsolete, and have essentially reached the end of their useful life. Certain portions of the electronic waste stream are defined and the systems to recover and recycle them will be administratively regulated beyond the universal waste rules that apply to material handling with the passage of the Electronic Waste Recycling Act of 2003. This phenomena is occurred in the high rate of the technology advances. Whole categories of old electronic items contribute to e-waste such as VCRs being replaced by DVD players, and DVD players being replaced by Blu-ray players. The common electronic products such as televisions, VCRs, stereos, computers, copiers, and fax machines. These electronic products are thrown away when they are used after few years or no longer wanted by the consumers. Nowadays, our world was polluted by the e-waste. The ecosystems and drinking water were harmed and facing pollution of the electronic wastes. 1.6 billion cell phones were manufactured in 2012, these electronics are packed with toxic chemicals: arsenic, lead, and poly-brominated flame retardants. The average month an American keeps a cell phone as short as 18 months. 60% of the e-waste are toxic metals which usually ends up with landfill and these toxic will leach into the soil and water. Although electronic products can be recycled, but 30% of the electronic materials...
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...the natural environment. The first secondary social stakeholder with high interest and high power is the government. Governments hold high power as they set out the regulations and need the businesses to do well in order to maintain a strong economy. Consequently, they hold great legitimacy, urgency, and power. The Canadian government are particularly interested in the Athabasca Oil Sand Project because oil sands development not only benefits all Canadians through employment opportunities but also contributes to the highest rate of economic growth in Canada over the last 20 years. “The Tar Sands are now the biggest capital project anywhere on Earth and the biggest energy undertaking anywhere.” The government sees this as an excellent opportunity for a growing economy, thus supporting the project. The government also holds great power, as they are the ones enforcing the laws and regulations upon a business or organization. However, in this case, the government “fails to enforce its own environmental laws; and it is even engaging in cover-up when people blow the whistle on how the Tar Sands have harmed our health and our environment.” The Canadian government gives tax breaks to oil sands companies such as Shell, whom are the worst polluters, and refuses to force the industry to clean up. They have also covered up the situation when the people of Fort Chipewyan tried to appeal the issue of strange illnesses afflicting residents, and further denied any toxic problems....
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...with the hazardous chemical known as Perfluorooctanoic acid (PFOA or C8). The dumping of PFOA and other toxic is chemicals into the environment is a prominent issue both in the United States and globally. PFOA for example, will cycle through the earth’s biosphere almost indefinitely. The carelessness of DuPont chemicals has resulted in the illegal dumping of PFOA, and extremely toxic chemical, into a landfill. The PFOA seeped into the ground and drained into waterways adjacent to the landfill, poisoning it all; and it continued to spread. This resulted in the spread of cancer and other sickness. In recent years there has been...
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...is the company that has purchased CompCARE 3. The employees of CompCARE 4. The indigenous population of Colberia 5. The government and regulatory agencies of Colberia. Analyzing the ethics of PharmaCARE’s treatment of the Colberia’s indigenous population and its rank-and-file workers versus that of its executives. We define business ethics as the principles and values that define acceptable conduct for business institutions. Acceptability of corporate behavior will be determine by workers, customers, competitors, government and regulatory agencies, special interest groups, and the community (Andersen, 2004). Several firms have faced legal suits due to the manner in which they have treated the public, workers, consumers, and the environment during their business activities. For instance, the competition bureau of Canada found Azko Nobel Chemicals BV guilty and they were charged in the federal court of Canada on August 18, 2003. The company had taken part in a conspiracy to fix market prices for a crucial food additive that was an essential ingredient for an important animal feed and a chemical use that was in several commercial and consumer products. The company was fined $2.9 million by the court (American Bar Association, 2002). Many consumers as well as social interest groups believe that firms should not only aim at maximizing their profits but they also put into focus the social implications of their business activities. Social responsibility has been defined as the...
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