Running head: Ethics Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Jasmine A. Mills MT140: Introduction to Management Gillian Martin Ethics and Corporate Social Responsibility Sandwich Blitz‚ Inc. top level managers Dalman and Lea have found themselves in an ethical dilemma with a government inspector about the distance between the dumpsters and their back door. Due to the new local health codes and laws having been issues requiring trash dumpsters to be a minimum distance of 30 feet
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Sandwich Blitz‚ Inc. opened its doors for business October 15‚ 2004 and now consists of eight locations. It specializes in organically grown food ingredients‚ upscale breakfast and healthy beverages. The President and CEO‚ Dalman Smith and Vice President and CFO‚ Lei Lee are the sole owners. Dalmon and Lei are wishing to expand the business‚ but first they need to conduct a SWOT analysis to determine the strengths‚ weakness‚ opportunities and possible threats involved in the expansion. Sandwich
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Unit 7 Assignment In Unit 7 we learned about self-managed teams. I believe that Sandwich Blitz would benefit from a self-managed team because that would take a lot of pressure off of Dalman and Lei. I think that the one that they should go with would be the Semiautonomous Work Group. I think this because it would give the person or persons Dalman and Lei put in charge a lot of responsibilities that they are currently taking on themselves. In a Semiautonomous Work Group the person or persons
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Sandwich Blitz is a fast food chain‚ specializing in organic and healthy alternatives. Previously they were without competitors in their store locations. Recently‚ individual stores of the same genre are beginning to make their appearances in the areas of domination by Sandwich Blitz. The goal of the last meeting was to establish a strategic plan to ensure that the company stayed on a senior level in their sales as the competition builds a customer base. Dalman and Lei face several more challenges
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- Strategic Planning: According to Bateman & Snell "Typical strategic goals include growing‚ increasing market share‚ improving profitability" (2010‚ Page 77)‚ which means that Dalman and Lei need to set a long term goals and achieve them for example if they would like to expand they need to set their expansion based on meeting a certain percent of their profit after 4 years of achieving this profit or higher. Implement annual training for their middle management to improve their managerial performances
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Dalman and Lei have discussed two possible avenues to grow and expand Sandwich Blitz‚ Inc. One possible strategy would be to franchise locations. Another strategy would be to secure venture capital to finance an internal expansion by opening more company-owned shops. Dalman feels that he just does not have time to investigate these options because he is spending an increasing amount of his time assisting the location managers. Lei noted that two of the location managers had exhibited a lot of skill
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Sandwich Blitz‚ Inc. After reading the scenario about the Sandwhich Blitz Inc Case I learned about their strengths‚ weaknesses‚ Opportunities and threats that the business faces if Dalman and Lei expand their business. Dalman and Lei strengths are their attitude towards their business‚ and team cooperation. I chose attitude as one of their strengths because you should have a positive attitude about everything you do or try to do. When managing your business there are many challenges that employees
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In order for Lei to effectively apply and enforce the four step control process she would have to begin by updating the employee handbook. By accomplishing this crucial step she would now have set the standard where all future infractions could be measured against. She should determine what worked and did not work with the old handbook as a guide. Her next step in measuring performance is to evaluate each and every employee on a one on one basis with their managers input taken into consideration
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Unit 7 Assignment May 15‚ 2014 Self-managed teams can be very useful in taking most of the extra stress off of upper level managers. The team is trained to do all the jobs in the store. They are given the freedom to plan and control the work they do. By using self-managed teams Dalman and Lei can invest their time more effectively in expanding the company. They should pick people that are energetic and enthusiastic. Keeping in mind the different skills the self-managed team should
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paper I will provide an analysis on the steps that Sandwich Blitz Inc. can take to make an ethical decision regarding the recently passed health codes and the government inspector’s proposal regarding approval of their current set-up. Local health codes have been updated‚ and Sandwich Blitz must comply with these. They currently have a few infractions of the new codes‚ but the government inspector has told a unit manager that if Sandwich Blitz caters their holiday party they will be approved to
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