Analyzing Yuhan-Kimberly Strategy Before the Crisis Since 1984, Yuhan-Kimberly has been actively performing its corporate social responsibility program ‘Keep Korea Green.’ This program focuses on planing trees all over Korea. In 2014, approximately 50 million trees had been planted by Yuhan-Kimberly in Korea. It not only spread the love of trees inside, but even outside South Korea. From 1999, Yuhan-Kimberly already planted 12.85 million trees in North Korea and 10.13 million in Mongolia. By this action, the company contributed to the increasing number of urban forest in Seoul and the creation of green sites on schools and campuses. Stressing on public engagement, not only the employees, these various environmental activities are open for …show more content…
However because of the baby wet wipes case, the rank decreased by 2, Yuhan-Kimberly was ranked #6 in 2005. But it successfully regain the #4 rank in 2006 , and even better than before, Yuhan-Kimberly proceed to the third Most Respected Companies in Korea in 2008 and 2009. The latest rank in 2014, Yuhan-Kimberly still in the #3 position (POSCO, 2014). It conducted a survey in 2013, and the results are Yuhan-Kimberly consumers sees it as most trustworthy company and the leader in CSR activities in Korea by 93.1% and 87.8%, …show more content…
It was founded by Werner Von Siemens and Johann Georg Halske in 1853. Several bribery cases filed under the name of Siemens which became a news for international media. In 2004, Siemens bribe the son of Bangladesh’s Prime Minister with the amount of $5 million, to win a contract of mobile phone (Montero, 2009). In order to win contracts of government telecommunications, from 2001 to 2004 Siemens have bribed various Nigeria officials with the total of $12.7 million (BBC, 2007). In China, Siemens poured out funds to government officials with a total of $14 million to win a contract of medical equipment supply from 2002 until 2009 (WCT, 2011). This is turns out to be a cultural problem because bribing foreign official was legal in German law. It was before 1999 that under the German tax code, bribing foreign official considered as business expense. However, it already became a culture of Siemens Company. Therefore, series of actions been performed by Siemens to regain the trust from
On January 13th, 1999, a popular senior at Woodlawn High School in Baltimore, Maryland, disappears. The girl, Hae Min Lee, was later found in Leakin Park with marks proving she was strangled to death. Six weeks later, Adnan Syed, Lee’s classmate and ex-boyfriend, was arrested and sentenced to life in prison plus 30 years. A friend of Adnan, Jay, who graduated the spring prior from Woodlawn, is the only person with a timeline for the 13th of January and, unfortunately, it makes Adnan look guilty. But, with multiple inconsistencies and stories that do not match the other gathered evidence, Jay’s story is not perfect.
1. The only experience that I have had so far that relates to what had happened to Mary Anne Bell was when I had gone to a concert with a few of my friends. At first I was really reluctant because it was my first time going to a concert and I don’t like listening to loud music. But as soon as the music started playing, the bass reverberated through me and the crowd, and everyone was just swept away by the music. Which is some sort of correlation to what had happened to Mary Anne Bell, since she was “fresh out of Cleveland Heights Senior High”, and how “Her pretty blue eyes seemed to glow” (O’ Brien 68), just as I was new to concerts, so was she to the war, and it had completely swept her.
This day and age, change has become the new norm that shapes and develops the business world and global economy. A rising topic that has shepherd the direction of innovation is climate change and environmental awareness. The sustainability of a company encompasses their ability to manage social and environmental risks, obligations and opportunities. This concept is important for managers and to understand and implement because of government regulations and potential cost efficiency. In Oregon, there are numerous companies that express the importance of being sustainable.
One example was the Credit Mobilier scandal where major stockholders of the Union Pacific Railroad formed the Credit Mobilier company and sold their shares to influential congressmen. These executives essentially hired themselves and stole taxpayer money, a very lucrative scandal. Scandals like the Credit Mobilier were widespread and executives from many other railroad companies often stole from their own companies. Many executives would manipulate the rail companies' stocks to profit greatly. Executives would often bribe influential politicians, and work together to profit themselves.
JPMorgan has been accused of bribery several times, but this paragraph will focus on the hiring of children of Chinese leaders. Federal officials investigated whether the bank committed a form of bribery by hiring the kids of senior Chinese leaders. JPMorgan hired the son of a former Chinse banking regulator. After this the bank snagged some coveted assignments from a Chinese conglomerate. According to The New York Times, The Hong Kong office of JPMorgan also hired the daughter of a Chinese railway official.
The government has passed many conservation policies to protect animals, eco-systems, plants and trees itself and indigenous people’s way of life, but many of these policies get overlooked and require a lot of extra work. How it affects the rest of the world- This action is permanent, and all of the world is targeted as a potential setting for deforestation. It is predicted that the continuing action may result in very few rainforest across the entire globe. Cutting trees can also be harmful to our ozone layer, which protects earth from dangerous radiation.
Problem Background Yuhan-Kimberly is a joint venture company of Yuhan Corporation (Korea based) with Kimberly-Clark (US based). It was established in 1970 and is a leading company who manufactures health and hygiene products such as diapers, sanitary napkins, tissues, and wet wipes. On March 2005, a crisis happened because of the baby wet wipes product. In other developed countries such as Europe and United States, wet wipes were categorized as cosmetic product.
Corporate social responsibility: It has started an initiative in which it gives one percent of its revenue i.e. sales, to grassroots environmental organizations. Not only that, but also it has convinced 1,400 other companies to join this "1% for the Planet" initiative which he refers to as an Earth tax. This helps it to make a positive contribution to the environment thus achieving its strategic goal. Benefits: a.
Actions which were taken by the company to cover unethical behavior of bribery and
I. Background and Company Analysis ________________________________________ Patagonia, founded by Yvon Chouinard in 1971, is an outdoor apparel company that has successfully integrated green elements into almost every business activity, from R&D to human resources management, to reduce harm to the environment. These elements firmly align with the corporate objectives of enhancing product and service quality, reducing environmental impacts and having constant innovation. These practices not only enable Patagonia to create values to its customers, but also help the company differentiate itself as innovative leader in the green segment of the industry. A. Orsato’s Framework - Competitive Environmental Strategies Patagonia should be considered
Therefore it is beyond the scope of the ethical mind to make the determination of whether the output of the creating mind is in fact ethically valid. But applying principles of the ethical mind in real life and real workplace settings is not always easy. But one thing is certain: if one hides behind a "veil of ignorance" and deliberately shuts off one 's mind to one 's real position in the world, then one is certain to have a faulty ethical mind that makes bad ethical decision (Gardner 9). For instance, the companies globally are now under scrutiny for setting up off-shore shell companies in the tax heaven through a Panamian law firm called Mossack Fonseca (“Giant”). This scandal shows the huge willingness of global corporations and even powerful political leaders
Lockheed’s movement towards a more ethical workplace. Prepared for Dr. Shah Trident University International Prepared by Timothy Rychecky Business Ethics 301 August 5th 2017 Some of the unorthodox strategies covered by Terris during the 1950’s was anything from making donations to a support widows and orphans in Indonesia to making deals with influential people in governments to include royalty in the Netherlands and Japan, political parties in Italy. All these entities were willing to convince the powers that made spending decisions to purchase the starfighter. In addition, Terris describes a time period where outright bribery was used as a way of doing business even though in the US it was against ethical rules, overseas it was
By planting more trees, not only does the project help
1) Evaluate how Nestlé 's approach to corporate responsibility was good for their business. Corporate businesses generally have to meet ethical, legal, commercial and public expectations. That is what is expected of the business world today. This is known as the Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR). However, businesses with short-term goal will rarely practice CSR since practicing it does not bring any benefit.
Review of Literature Unethical behavior can tarnish a company’s image and reputation. If a company is unethical, they may have to spend additional money to improve their public image, as well as gain back as many customers as possible. The reason I have chosen to use articles that are quite a few years old and that are not so recent is because I feel that they are very good examples of what I am trying to prove in the terms of ethical behaviour within companies and these specific articles relate well to my chosen topic.