Current Ethical Issues paper
Current Ethical Issues Paper
XMGT/216
January 26, 2014
Current Ethical Issues Paper
Within this paper you will read about the organization of Huffman Trucking Company. This includes a description of the company on the ethical organization profile. Also within this paper you’ll read about the explanation of the current moral and ethical issues that Huffman Trucking Company will face.
Huffman Trucking Company has been around since 1936. Huffman’s was the carrier in the World War II for the government. Huffman’s shipped from the Midwest to the East Coast for the government. Huffman Trucking Company has acquired a business relationship with the government, which helped the company to expand and grow. After the World War II Huffman’s trucking Co. continued to carry for the government, which led the company to other customers. Huffman Trucking Company grew from internal sales and retained five other Eastern Regional carriers. Huffman’s is still privately owned and held. With the growth of the company he was able to expand his facilities in four different states. These states are Ohio, California, Missouri, and New Jersey. Huffman employees are over nine hundred drivers and over four hundred support personnel. He owns and operates eight hundred road tractors, two thousand and one hundred 45’ trailers, and two hundred sixty roll on and off units. According to the Virtual Organization portal, Huffman Trucking Company “Has been recognized as the first major freight carrier to outsource a hundred percent of its information systems support” (2003, 2004, 2012, Apollo Group Inc.).
The moral and ethical issues that Huffman’s might face are product and service quality, customer and employee relations, and equipment and maintenance. Those are the ones that would be most important to me. It is important to have all these in mind when delivering and getting new potential customers and new contracts. Along with that dealing with the customers that Huffman’s
XMGT/216
January 26, 2014
Current Ethical Issues Paper
Within this paper you will read about the organization of Huffman Trucking Company. This includes a description of the company on the ethical organization profile. Also within this paper you’ll read about the explanation of the current moral and ethical issues that Huffman Trucking Company will face.
Huffman Trucking Company has been around since 1936. Huffman’s was the carrier in the World War II for the government. Huffman’s shipped from the Midwest to the East Coast for the government. Huffman Trucking Company has acquired a business relationship with the government, which helped the company to expand and grow. After the World War II Huffman’s trucking Co. continued to carry for the government, which led the company to other customers. Huffman Trucking Company grew from internal sales and retained five other Eastern Regional carriers. Huffman’s is still privately owned and held. With the growth of the company he was able to expand his facilities in four different states. These states are Ohio, California, Missouri, and New Jersey. Huffman employees are over nine hundred drivers and over four hundred support personnel. He owns and operates eight hundred road tractors, two thousand and one hundred 45’ trailers, and two hundred sixty roll on and off units. According to the Virtual Organization portal, Huffman Trucking Company “Has been recognized as the first major freight carrier to outsource a hundred percent of its information systems support” (2003, 2004, 2012, Apollo Group Inc.).
The moral and ethical issues that Huffman’s might face are product and service quality, customer and employee relations, and equipment and maintenance. Those are the ones that would be most important to me. It is important to have all these in mind when delivering and getting new potential customers and new contracts. Along with that dealing with the customers that Huffman’s