Greyston Bakery
Organizational Issues-Responsibility Project
The Responsibility Project is a project that Liberty Mutual has created to help people in the communities surrounding them a chance to better themselves and their lives. Greyston Bakery is a company specifically that has gone above and beyond to help those who live within their own community try to achieve a better life for themselves and their families.
Greyston Bakery is a for-profit organization and believes that using business for good instead of evil is the ethical choice. The bakery hires people that are hard to employ trying to give everyone a chance to better themselves. Greyston Bakery supports two missions, social mission and profit mission. Greyston Bakery follows their vision for personal transformation and community economic renewal. The social mission includes hiring people from the community using an open hire policy that gives everyone a fair chance at employment and teaching them valuable skills and transferable skills to promote a productive life. The profit mission consists of the Greyston Bakery Foundation. The Greyston Bakery Foundation puts the profits back into the community for community housing development, …show more content…
housing for the homeless and low income families, childcare, after school care, technology education, and healthcare. The Greyston Bakery believes that business should support the community not the community supporting the business.
Bernard Tetsugen Glassman led a Zen Buddhist meditation group that found Greyston Bakery in 1982 with an original goal of producing quality, locally made products that inspired a socially responsible business that extended valuable opportunities to others.
The group opened a small bakery storefront in the Bronx by borrowing $300,00. In 1988, Greyston ventured into bakery goods in ice cream producing over 20,000 pounds per day of product to mix in ice cream and has become the producer for brownies for the Vermont based Ben & Jerry’s. In 2004 in their state-of-the-art location the bakery still works for self-transformation and community renewal by providing on-site training programs, fair and equal wages and benefits to over 65 local residents regardless of their work
history.
Greyston Bakery created Greyston Foundation that encourages individuals on a path for self-sufficiency. Greyston promotes reducing reliance on external funding sources and uses entrepreneurship to resolve problems in the inner city.
• Why are the issues in the film important?the issues in this film are important because Greyston Bakery is supporting the community and trying to help individuals improve their lives. The are giving back to the community which will not only benefit the employees of the company but those who truly need help.
• What role do external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics?
• How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions?
• What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film?
References http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/films/greyston-bakery#fbid=s-CrsCZrpGI http://www.greystonbakery.com/the-bakery/our-story/
The Responsibility Project is a project that Liberty Mutual has created to help people in the communities surrounding them a chance to better themselves and their lives. Greyston Bakery is a company specifically that has gone above and beyond to help those who live within their own community try to achieve a better life for themselves and their families.
Greyston Bakery is a for-profit organization and believes that using business for good instead of evil is the ethical choice. The bakery hires people that are hard to employ trying to give everyone a chance to better themselves. Greyston Bakery supports two missions, social mission and profit mission. Greyston Bakery follows their vision for personal transformation and community economic renewal. The social mission includes hiring people from the community using an open hire policy that gives everyone a fair chance at employment and teaching them valuable skills and transferable skills to promote a productive life. The profit mission consists of the Greyston Bakery Foundation. The Greyston Bakery Foundation puts the profits back into the community for community housing development, …show more content…
housing for the homeless and low income families, childcare, after school care, technology education, and healthcare. The Greyston Bakery believes that business should support the community not the community supporting the business.
Bernard Tetsugen Glassman led a Zen Buddhist meditation group that found Greyston Bakery in 1982 with an original goal of producing quality, locally made products that inspired a socially responsible business that extended valuable opportunities to others.
The group opened a small bakery storefront in the Bronx by borrowing $300,00. In 1988, Greyston ventured into bakery goods in ice cream producing over 20,000 pounds per day of product to mix in ice cream and has become the producer for brownies for the Vermont based Ben & Jerry’s. In 2004 in their state-of-the-art location the bakery still works for self-transformation and community renewal by providing on-site training programs, fair and equal wages and benefits to over 65 local residents regardless of their work
history.
Greyston Bakery created Greyston Foundation that encourages individuals on a path for self-sufficiency. Greyston promotes reducing reliance on external funding sources and uses entrepreneurship to resolve problems in the inner city.
• Why are the issues in the film important?the issues in this film are important because Greyston Bakery is supporting the community and trying to help individuals improve their lives. The are giving back to the community which will not only benefit the employees of the company but those who truly need help.
• What role do external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics?
• How might these issues be relevant to organizational and personal decisions?
• What is the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film?
References http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/films/greyston-bakery#fbid=s-CrsCZrpGI http://www.greystonbakery.com/the-bakery/our-story/