PART ONE: Discussion 2: Don’t Tweak Your Supply Chain – Rethink it to the End (CLOS 1,2,3)No unread replies.No replies.
Read: https://hbr.org/2010/10/dont-tweak-your-supply-chain-rethink-it-end-to-end (Links to an external site.)
Please fully address the discussion prompts below. Your answers must fully address the prompts with a well- written post utilizing citations for your information. You also must reply to at least 2 classmates with full, complete and substantial responses. Original posts are due Saturday of Week 3 at 06:00 pm and replies to classmates are due Saturday of Week 4 at 06:00pm. Original posts should have your claims supported with material from the text andother outside readings you may find (citations and references). Replies to classmates are also required to have citations and references. All of your posts should be thought provoking, insightful, challenging, and move the conversation forward, not a term paper.
Discuss the following:
Many supply chain managers see sustainability as a constraint; how might it be an opportunity and why?
What are the benefits for a supply chains being environmentally responsible?
What are the challenges in implementing environmental policies are supply chains facing?
Part TWO: In a 3-page (double-spaced, Times New Roman, 12 pt. font) essay respond to the following questions.
1. Ed Freeman famously defined a stakeholder as “any group or individual who can affect or is affected by the achievement of the organization’s objectives.” Discuss the strengths and weaknesses of this definition, providing examples to support your argument.
2. How is the concept of stakeholder related to the five driving forces of CSR? Provide examples in your answer
3. Customers want lower prices and higher quality; employees want higher wages and better benefits and better working conditions; suppliers want to give fewer discounts and want you to buy more of their products; communities want more donations; governments want higher taxes, investors want higher dividends and higher stock prices. Present a economic situation that has recently been in the news and justify how/why each of the stakeholders listed above should have their priority met or not met.
4. Simon Zadek identifies five stages of learning that organizations go through in developing a sense of corporate responsibility and four stages of intensity to measure the societal issues and public’s expectations around the issues. Describe Zadek’s model and use the model to analyze a real-life firm facing a corporate responsibility issue, clearly identifying the firm’s location and the issue’s location on each axis of the model.
5. The textbook argues that the CSR cause would be advanced considerably if stakeholders are caring, informed, transparent, and educated. Describe what that statement means, citing examples to support your response.
6. Arguments can be made that firms are primarily responsible for CSR practices,and other arguments can be made that stakeholders are primarily responsible for CSR. Describe the two sides to this debate and analyze which argument you support more.