Week 9/Ethics and blogging

It doesn't suprise me that a PR firm that works for wal-mart would fabricate blogs about consumer experiances at wal-mart. I read a year or so ago that wal-mart will forever have a bad reputation with consumers as long unethical busniess practices go on. This is a perfect example.

When creating a fact sheet for prospect 1, I would suggest:

-Having a master list of employees AND with what form of communaction they have available at home. Not everyone has access to e-mail, has a lan line or recieves text messages, etc.
-Have every employee back up their work at the end of every work day and have list of where all information is stored.
-Language that will be used by organization (ex: isolation vs quarantine)

Perspective 2
-List of doctors willing to assist companies
-How to properly dispose of waste

Week 8

I couldn't find a comany that had their business continuity plan online, but there were several websites advertising business continuity plans. I dont know that you could pay someone who didn't know every detail about the way a business is conducted to design a business continuity plan. But some of the companies just offered tools and software to help avoid crisis. I think someone designing a business continuity plan should be familure with every aspect of working for a company.

The wikipedia entry for business continuity uses the possibility of virus outbreak in it's sample plan. What I thought was interesting about the plan was testing organizational acceptance.

Quarantine is when you may have the virus, and isolation is when you do have the virus.

Week 7

I read the news a lot and consider myself pretty well aware of what is going on in current events. But I can't think of a recent article where I read about a company standing out for it's ethical behavior. If I have it has probably been about usuing environmentaly safe material and I forgot immediately. And it was hard to find a news story about an ethical company. I guess it's news when a company is unethical but not when it behaves well.

Last month the HP scandal made it to the front page of Newsweek. In the October 16th issue Carly Fiorna stated in an interview, "My firing was not about performance. So I can only conclude it was about a set of personal agendas and dysfunction."

Week 6 blogging (better late than never)

I think the color coding system was a failure because few people even today know what to do when the terror threat is heightened. I don't even think that a possible threat of terrorism could be measured and described in colors. The language that the department of homeland security used was also very vague. Whenever I see that the levels have changed the only thing I remember about the system is that people kept making fun of it on talk shows.

Ethics/Starbucks

I think ethics are very import for companies to have. A companies ethics should be well know through out the company on every level of employment. Unfortunatly, everyone has a very different idea about what is ethical.

Starbucks has gone through great lengths to keep it's ethical image. I think it has worked for them because they don't just create pamplets about their ethics but actually conduct business in a very ethical manner.