...wrong because of a cultural tradition. (Rosenstand, 2013). The corrupt behaviors which were discussed in Phase 2 discussion board were of two different companies, the two companies that I chose were Walmart and Nike. However, in this particular individual project I will focus on corrupt behaviors of Walmart. In today’s culture, there are three particular factors of behavior, thought and feeling and these patterns are considered normal only because they are and can be significant and useful. Normal behavior supports unity where abnormal does not come together with in an organization and can easily destroy the organization. The behavior of Walmart has destroyed a part of their integrity as it has caused a significant profit loss for the organization. Behavior thought and feeling are all different factors where a judgment can be placed on what is right and what is wrong. The fact that the behavior where Walmart was investigated for allegations of bribery to Mexico for their own gain and where they failed to report large sums of money for payment to Mexico to rapidly get building permits amongst other favors does not constitute that the behavior is or is not normal, due to no moral of right or wrong, as Walmart actually felt that they...
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...workers' rights and safety laws in Bangladesh. Contents [hide] 1 Background 2 Fire 3 Response 4 Revised Regulations 5 Related occurrence 6 See also 7 References 8 External links Background[edit] When it opened in 2009 the Tazreen Fashion factory employed 1,630 workers and produced T-shirts, polo shirts and jackets for various companies and organizations.[6] These included the US Marines,[7][8] the Dutch company C&A, the American company Walmart and the Hong Kong based company Li & Fung.[6][9] The factory is part of The Tuba group which is a major exporter of garments from Bangladesh into the U.S., Germany, France, Italy and the Netherlands, whose major clients include Walmart, Carrefour and IKEA.[10] According to Tazreen Fashions' web site, the factory was flagged in May 2011 with an "orange" grade by a Walmart ethical sourcing official for "violations and/or conditions which were deemed to be high risk". The notice said that any factory receiving three "orange" grade assessments in a two year time period would not receive Walmart orders for one year.[11] The orange rating was the first the company had...
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...Case Analysis: Wal-Mart Alfonso Soloiro 10/28/13 BUS 365 Walmart is known worldwide as a powerhouse in consumer goods retailing. You could almost find anything you want at Walmart at the most affordable price, however Walmart has gained a negative reputation regards ethical behaviors and their working environment. Walmart first began in 1962, when its founder Sam Walton opened the first Walmart Discount store in Arkansas. His plans towards Walmart and its ethical behavior seems the total opposite than what he had planned for its future and sustainability. Walton believed in customer satisfaction and hard work. Walmart claimed early on that a formal ethics program was unnecessary because the company already had Walton’s tradition of ethics. As the years went by Walmart would go from the most admired company in America to one of the most hated. One of the main ethical issues that’s been haunting them for years involves their employees and their treatment. Wal-Mart is known for its poor treatment of all employees. In fact, the average Wal-Mart hourly sales employee earns under $250 per week. Most full-time employees are working for $7.50 per hour for 28-40 hours a week. As a result of this pay scale, the majority of Wal-Mart employees are living well below the poverty line (PBS, 2010). Part of the reason that that Wal-Mart’s employees receive such low pay is that Wal-Mart is a notoriously antiunion company. The unionized retail...
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...passengers and killing James McNair (“Wal-Mart blames Tracy Morgan for car accident injuries,” 2014). Although charges were filed against the driver, Wal-Mart has publicly shifted blame for the accident to Morgan, who they claim was negligent for not wearing a seatbelt. It is common knowledge that seatbelts improve safety in vehicles. While it could be argued that the injuries sustained by the passengers may have been lessened (and the death of McNair possibly avoided) had they been wearing seatbelts, it does not remove responsibility of the accident from the driver, Kevin Roper. Prosecutors in the case have reported that Roper had not slept for over 24 hours. There are many ethical implications in Wal-Mart not accepting responsibility. There was a lack of oversight in that Roper’s logs were not monitored by Wal-Mart for rest periods. This places some blame on Wal-Mart for Roper’s negligence. More blame goes to Wal-Mart if it is discovered that the retailer is placing unreasonable demands on drivers for delivery times. Even if Wal-Mart was unaware of the actions of their driver, they should not shift blame for a devastating accident onto the victims. Over the last several years, Wal-Mart has been under fire in the media for questionable ethics, including over working and under paying their associates, poor working conditions, refusing to compensate overseas workers for injuries and deaths sustained on the job, and bribing government officials for political favors. The company constantly...
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...Week 2 BUS670: Legal Environment In a society full of human’s supply and demand for most commodities can be very demanding and overwhelming to the produces. With the demand being so high, companies are forced to produce products at a higher rate of speed. Typically, when products are made at a faster speed, minor things are more likely to go wrong with the product. With this being said, there is a large number of recalls on items produces on a daily basis. It is important for consumers to be aware of what is being recalled. It is also important for the manufacturing company to have a system in place to contact the consumers who purchased a product that has been recalled, as well as a way to correct the problem they may be faced with. Our job was to locate a product that has recently been recalled I chose to research the Keurig MINI Brewing System, it was recalled on December 23, 2014, and the Recall number: 15-05. See below for an example of the product code bar and what the consumers who purchased the product were looking for to see of their product was affected by the recall. This picture below was provided by the compnay. * | | 1. 2 of 3 photos 2. Identification number is located on a white sticker on the bottom of the brewers 3. Below is a brief summary of the product and why it was recalled, also known as the Recall Summary? Keurig® MINI Plus Brewing Systems...
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...Dominique Lofton The Exceptions: IV- Act of the Shipper case study My case study will be over the act of the shipper that is discussed in chapter 9. It brought up some very interesting information on who is, or will be held liable if any damages, loss, and delay happens to the freight. So when it’s an act of the shipper the carrier will not be held liable. I will give you examples and also discuss when the act of a shipper reduces a carrier liability. Before I get into the exceptions I first must give you the general rule so that you can better understand what the exceptions are for act of the shipper. If there were any damage, delay, or loss because of the negligence or oversight of the shipper, consignee or any other party with a legal right to exercise authority over the freight, the carrier cannot be found liable. The shipper in this instance is the carrier. That is the company that gets goods from point A to point B. It can be a car, bus, van, train, or plane. In legal terms the meaning of shipper says that the carrier is not liable for any losses, damages, or delays as a result of acts or omissions by a person, consignor, consignee and whomever else physically handles the goods in that capacity. When this exception is used most often is when there have been some alleged deficiencies in either the loading by the consignor or the rare situation of unloading by the consignee. Another example of when this exception could be used is when the freight is packaged or other...
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...Suggestions Walmart needs to adjust to the Chinese market, while leveraging its source of competitive advantage. This requires a delicate balance. At the US, the brand Walmart is associated with low price rather than quality. In China, where everyone is going for low prices and providing low quality to do so, Walmart’s own brand could be an assurance for low prices but with quality by making the Walmart name about more than just retailing. The suggested strategy in the 2008 Walmart supplier meetings shows that it’s heading in that direction (Business Week). This also follows Gome’s strategy of renaming its suppliers to their own brand (Business Week), but goes beyond it as the foreign brand in China is already associated with higher reliability and quality assurance. This actually holds true in China were retailers do a better job of enforcing supplier quality than the local regulations. With that, Walmart is still able to use its expertise and knowledge in supplier negotiation and distribution system to keep costs down. Although Walmart is a Joint-Venture, the sources do not mention any attempt to leverage the local partner to meet the local market, which seems the opposite to some other joint ventures discussed like Danone and Wahaha. Working together with the local partner to understand where and how the local regulations can be used or adjusted for Walmart’s success and gaining a stronger hold of the potential customer’s heart might help Walmart’s growth and dominance in...
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...Wal-Mart lost a lawsuit to the U.S. Equal Employment Opportunity Commission in 2010, due to their negligence and sexual discrimination against hiring women to work in their warehouse located in London Kentucky. Wal-Mart will be required to pay 12 million dollars to settle this lawsuit; the 12 million dollars will be split up amongst a number of claimants. “Along with the back pay and damages, as part of the settlement Wal-Mart will fill the first 50 order-filler jobs at the warehouse with female hires. After that, female hires will make up a fixed percentage of open positions.” (Barrouquere, 2010) Wal-Mart’s warehouse had for seven years given positions to male applicants, while overlooking female applicants even though they were equally qualified or even more qualified for the job position due to their sex. Wal-Mart managers were said to have told the female applicants that the position was not one for a female to be working. “According to the EEOC’s lawsuit, Wal-Mart’s London, Ky., Distribution Center denied jobs to female applicants from 1998 through February 2005. During that time period, the EEOC contends, Wal-Mart regularly hired male entry-level applicants for warehouse positions, but excluded female appli¬cants who were equally or better qualified. The EEOC alleged that Wal-Mart regularly used gender stereotypes in filling entry-level order filler positions. Hiring officials told applicants that order filling positions were not suitable for women, and that they hired...
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...Week 1 by covering our two most important TCOs: A and I. These will be foundational for the term. As TCO A is our ethics TCO and TCO I is our international TCO, note that both of these TCOs will be important under and inside each of our topical TCOs (e.g., contracts, environmental law, employment law, etc.) | | Business Ethics | | As we move through the course, each learned TCO should remain in the back of your mind. We will build on them while learning the law. As you will find, most of the TCO A ethical strategies include as a first question the following: Is the behavior illegal? A "yes" answer will (usually) lead you to decide automatically that the behavior is unethical, unless the law itself is unethical (as is sometimes the case). Therefore, as we learn what is and isn't legal, we will want to utilize that information in solving ethical dilemmas. When we move our businesses overseas or to Mexico or...
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...Week 1 by covering our two most important TCOs: A and I. These will be foundational for the term. As TCO A is our ethics TCO and TCO I is our international TCO, note that both of these TCOs will be important under and inside each of our topical TCOs (e.g., contracts, environmental law, employment law, etc.) | | Business Ethics | | As we move through the course, each learned TCO should remain in the back of your mind. We will build on them while learning the law. As you will find, most of the TCO A ethical strategies include as a first question the following: Is the behavior illegal? A "yes" answer will (usually) lead you to decide automatically that the behavior is unethical, unless the law itself is unethical (as is sometimes the case). Therefore, as we learn what is and isn't legal, we will want to utilize that information in solving ethical dilemmas. When we move our businesses overseas or to Mexico or Canada, as many of our...
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...because its founder, Walton emphasized on the customer satisfaction and hard work. This creates a value on Wal-Mart. It is indeed popular in American business of its low prices and it is one of the world’s largest public corporations. Hence, it has to be more careful while handling the relationships between different stakeholders. Wal-Mart is reported to be able saving the average family of $3200 annually. However, the company has received many critics on the issues of its treatment towards its employees, suppliers and economic impacts on communities. Many stand out to say that Wal-Mart is engaged in immoral issues in order to provide low prices. This case attempts to show us about the controversy of both the positive and negative impacts on the society due to Wal-Mart’s low pricing. It involves various stakeholders here in the case, such as competitors, suppliers, and employees. In addition, some ethical issues such as the discrimination, illegal immigration issues, and leadership misconduct are brought out to discuss. 2.0 Wal-Mart’s Stakeholders relationship 2.1 Competitors Stakeholders Problem: Wal-Mart used predatory pricing which causes other companies out of business. This is because they work on volume. They can give greater discount than any other competitors can afford and yet still make a profit. There is lawsuit in Germany in September 2000 that accused there is illegal pricing of goods below the market price. We could see its intention on driving other competitors...
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...American Healthcare Systems-Research Paper-6th Dec 2013 Medical Tourism By: Mrudula Mynampaty and Swathi Damacherla Introduction “Medical tourism” is the term commonly used to describe people traveling outside their home country avail medical services at lower costs1. Medical tourism is fundamentally different from the traditional model of international medical travel where patients generally journey from less developed nations to major medical centers in highly developed countries for medical treatment that is unavailable in their own communities 2. History The concept of medical tourism has been very pervasive all through the history. The first recorded case of medical tourism describes Greek pilgrims who traveled from the Mediterranean Sea to Epidaurus, a small territory in the Sardonic Gulf. It was said that this small territory was the sanctuary of Asclepius, known as the healing god. Since the 1500s India has enjoyed a rich history of providing yoga instruction as well as Ayurveda healing to patients from around the world. In the 18th and 19th centuries, Europeans and Americans flocked to health spas and sanitariums, sometimes in remote places, in the hope that they would obtain relief from their disabling conditions, such as tuberculosis, gout, bronchitis, or liver diseases 3. What led to Medical Tourism today? The market size for medical tourism is USD 24-40 billion, based on approximately eight million cross-border patients worldwide spending an average of USD 3,000-5...
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...Filed 1/7/16 P. v. Cole CA2/4 NOT TO BE PUBLISHED IN THE OFFICIAL REPORTS California Rules of Court, rule 8.1115(a), prohibits courts and parties from citing or relying on opinions not certified for publication or ordered published, except as specified by rule 8.1115(b). This opinion has not been certified for publication or ordered published for purposes of rule 8.1115. IN THE COURT OF APPEAL OF THE STATE OF CALIFORNIA SECOND APPELLATE DISTRICT DIVISION FOUR |THE PEOPLE, | B254915 | | | | |Plaintiff and Respondent, |(Los Angeles County | | |Super. Ct. No. MA055457) | |v. | | | | | |TOMMIE LEE COLE, | ...
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...Faculty of Economics Seminar paper on the subject: English 4 Crisis management June, 2012 Crisis management is the process by which an organization deals with a major event that threatens to harm the organization, its stakeholders, or the general public. The study of crisis management originated with the large scale industrial and environmental disasters in the 1980. Three elements are common to most definitions of crisis: (a) a threat to the organization, (b) the element of surprise, and (c) a short decision time. Venette argues that "crisis is a process of transformation where the old system can no longer be maintained." Therefore the fourth defining quality is the need for change. If change is not needed, the event could more accurately be described as a failure or incident. In contrast to risk management, which involves assessing potential threats and finding the best ways to avoid those threats, crisis management involves dealing with threats before, during, and after they have occurred. That is, crisis management is proactive, not merely reactive. It is a discipline within the broader context of management consisting of skills and techniques required to identify, assess, understand, and cope with a serious situation, especially from the moment it first occurs to the point that recovery procedures start. Introduction Crisis management consists of: * Methods used to respond...
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...Faculty of Management and Tourism ROOM 201 - BUILDING CTEL: 35535728 | HANOI UNIVERSITYKm 9 Nguyen Trai Road, Thanh Xuan Bac, Thanh Xuan District, Hanoi - VietnamTelephone:(84 4) 8544338, Facsimile:(84 4) 8544550, E-mail:hufs@netnam.vn, Website: www.hufs.edu.vn-------------------------------------------POM ASSIGNMENT | Statement of authorship Student name: Nguyen Quang Huy, Ta Tuong Phuoc, Trinh Duc Son, Nguyen Thanh Vien. Class: ____3K-12_________________________________________________ Subject___Principles of Marketing______________________________ Lecturer: ___Mr. Tran Tuan Anh______________________________ Name of assignment paper: Marketing Plan of PepsiCo in Vietnam | | Declaration I declare that the work attached is entirely my own, and that I have given due acknowledgement as required by the Foundation Studies Department. I understand that the work submitted may be reproduced and/ or communicated for the purposes of detecting plagiarism. Signed__________________ Date ___17/05/2013__________ | ]]]]] Plagiarism By signing the declaration, you are stating that you have not plagiarized. Use the following as a checklist. This work is entirely my own. * I have not copied another student’s work. * I have not copied or used in any way material from a text, journal, website or other published source without acknowledgement (including non – English sources)...
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