Zappos Organisational Culture Introduction Organizational culture is the fundamental views, norms, standards, and ways of relating to one another that subsidies the particular communal and mental setting of an organization. Organizational culture contains the company’s potentials, knowledge, idea, and ethics that guide worker behavior. It mostly built on shared insolences, beliefs, tolls, and written and unwritten procedures that have been made a long history of time that is vetted and considered to be genuine. It can include the organizational dream, norms, schemes, symbols, dialectal, assumptions, and conducts. The corporate culture will mostly dictate how things are done around the organization (Kummerow, & Kirby, 2013). Zappos has a fun organizational culture instilled with a set of values. Since Zappos is an online shoe and clothing retailer, it mostly uses the market corporate culture. In the market organizational culture, it is based on result-oriented. The study will investigate the nature of the culture at Zappos and how they go about their normal activities. There were several questionnaire questions asked to both current and recent employees of the company to help understand the…
Code of Conduct A code of conduct can be referred to a set of instructions or rules that outline the religious responsibilities and rules, the social norms and last but not least the proper behavior or practices of an individual. It is written to protect society and inform the subjects of their expectations. In most cases, codes of conducts are formulated by organizational leaders such as the leaders of society or those of a business entity who tend to manifest their personal ethics in their behavior and attitude. For effective implementation of the code of conduct, the implementation should be part of the process of learning requiring training, consistency in enforcement as well as continued improvement. The aim of this paper is to express a personal perspective on the code of conduct through a review of its strengths and weaknesses. Studies have shown that codes of conducts tend to focus on personal obligations as well as those of the organization for the case of companies or business firms. Most codes of conducts or ethics codes are designed in a…
Societal and Environmental Roles of Corporations Globally, corporations play vitals social and environments roles to ensure a sustainable business world. Business corporations have a social responsibility in addressing environmental issues within their production and consumption patterns. Besides, these corporations are responsible for developing and implementing sustainable development linked to health and environmental protection, voluntary initiatives, safer technologies of waste management, water, and energy use among others. Sustainable developments within corporations aim at solving social and environmental problems to provide a safe environment for its stakeholders. The implementation of these ideologies is done through the formulation of ethical policies which the corporations are bound. Unquestionably, corporations have a moral responsibility to stakeholders other than shareholders. According to business literature, corporations should put not only the interests of their shareholders first but also those of its stakeholders. In other words, they should consider the ethics of their creditors, employees, suppliers, and the society which they depend. Corporations should ensure that their employees work in a safe environment which is fully accommodative. Brooks and Dunn (2014) affirm that it is the moral responsibility…
Annotation and responsive question Introduction Goodbye sweet waters, new of selected stories by Henry Pumas Thunder’s mouth press New York, 1998. This book talks about Layton, and his grandma who lives in Hot Springs. Their home place is described to have the freshwaters, the sweet waters which are totally different from other sulfur waters which are hard waters. Their land has been demolished. People have been depopulated so that mining process can take place in the area. Layton’s grandma describes that era as great burn out plain, thirsty and bitter. She says that big companies would eventually move them out. She keeps on advising Layton to move to New York where her biological mother lives so that she can get better care, good education and other better services out there. Although Layton’s grandma describes that era as great pain, of depopulation, of unfavorable environmental condition due to mining, she is a diehard woman, she is described to be stronger and bigger even than the lands. She takes heart in everything and vows that she will flee from the lands when…
A passion for Wisdom In “A passion for wisdom”, Robert Solomon and Kathleen Higgins take the reader into a lively and gratifying tour of the history of philosophy. The presentation of history and development of philosophy is not only a witty and refreshing approach but also within a dense and concise text. The authors delve into the question of philosophy from a global perspective capturing various human attributes of the field. The book highlights significant philosophies on logic, ethics and politics by different founders including William James, Plato, Karl Max and Simone de Beauvoir and Buddha. The coverage begins with the most ancient religious beliefs from the East, Africa and the West that try to understand the concept of the world and existence, including its origin. The book also tackles multicultural postmodern philosophies of the current era such as feminism. Religion was one of the fundamental aspects that characterized ancient philosophies. The quest form meaning of life, existence and the afterlife influenced religious theories (p 3). Monothetic ideas of one God could be traced to 1730 BCE to ancient Babylonians…
A Response to Edna St. Vincent Millay’s Choice of Genre The article Andromeda unbound: Gender and Genre in Millay’s sonnets by Debra Fried seeks to criticize the poet Edna St. Vincent Millay’s decision to use the sonnet genre of poetry to proclaim women freedom. The author acknowledges the tough nature in which Millay poetry address the societal issues of sex, betrayal, and feminism that women have been compelled to submit to. However, Debra seems to disagree with Millay’s choice of the sonnet by claiming that it’s the same genre that has caged the women’s voices and allowed men dominance to go unchallenged. Hence, according to her (the author), a woman writing sonnets in the 20th century when people are seeking modernism is an act of embarrassment. The article puts down justification of the author’s reason for disagreement through examples. However, Millay’s poems demonstrate a contrary disposition to Fried’s article argument. The sonnet genre puts the female poet Millay on formal restrictions, which serves more as an act of silencing her voice than acting as women themes or mouthpiece representation. Debra…
Communication strategies Dear Sales Promotion Manager; Fleetwood sports, it is such an honor to work hand in hand with your company in exploring new markets and increasing the ratings for your products in the market. We know you are eager to hear about the latest ratings of the new radio host. It is with utmost regret that we inform you that the most recent ratings of the new host are below your expectations. These low ratings were especially evident in the category of audiences for your ad’s slot time. However, we observed that the over-50 demographic showed higher ratings than your expectation. We recommend the following courses of action to ensure that your company’s ad achieves better ratings and reaches a broader audience. The first recommended course of action is to encourage the host to conduct himself in the code of Ethics of the American Society of Professional Journalists. This effort will increase the credibility of the journalist which would, in turn, increase his rating among the audience. The next course of action would involve increasing the airing time…
Waste and resource management? Waste management entails the process by which waste is collected transported and either disposed of or recycled. Waste that goes through the management process is mainly material wastes produced through human activities. Various reasons compel individuals towards the buying of second-hand clothes. These reasons include that clothes are considered eco-friendly. Unlike first-hand clothes, second-hand clothes do not consume further resources they have already been made, meaning they do not go through the industrial process again. Not using the second-hand clothes is viewed as wasteful through using them. There is a reduction of chemical pollutions associated with methods of production and the decline of the waste of the materials that would go into the manufactory of new clothes. Second-hand clothes are also cheaper in comparison to new clothes. As they are being resold, they do not sell at a similar process of new clothes, for the obvious reasons that they are being reused. There is also the assumption that second-hand clothes are more long-lasting in comparison to new clothes. In the case that the second-hand clothes are…
Mockingbird discrimination Discrimination in the modern world happen unnoticed but it’s has been there since the beginning of time. The killing of Mockingbird express the ideas, the roots behaviors and the moral nature of the human. The Mockingbirds is a symbolic word used to show the innocents people thus killing of the mockingbirds explains the killing of the innocent’s people which is a senseless act of cruelty. Racism and its nature is the primary form of discrimination brought about by the author than any other type of discrimination. The work is about a Black American who was accused by a white woman of rape, but a white lawyer defends him as the rape case was a lie. The black man dies after losing the case and going to jail. The work will explain how the symbolic word of killing Mockingbird shows the recurring theme of discrimination. The killing of the Mockingbirds shown through the mistreatment of the innocent characters, Jem, scout, Tom, and Mayella. Throughout the work there are evident incidences showing discrimination toward these characters which gives an…
The second-hand clothing business 1.0 Executive summary The second-hand clothing business is fast increasing globally. The firm utilizes charity shops for second-hand retail clothing. Through the charity shops, clothes that could have otherwise been rendered useless and disposed of are put into better use and resold. The charity shops are significantly becoming preferred as the number of environmentally conscious consumers increase. Organizations seek to engage in second-hand clothing business as a way of building the brand name and making the brand reputable. Through this business strategy, the environment is significantly conserved. This is as the waste eliminated in the production process is described. Also, the number of clothes that into landfills is significantly reduced, consequently conserving the environment. 2.0. Introduction Business sustainability involves engaging in business practices in a way that not only guarantees the durability of the business but also ensures that the environment is also able to survive and thrive even as the business is conducted. A sustainable business is a business venture that can be considered as a green business. In essence, sustainable business has minimal adverse…