Month: September 2012

(Reply on Gordon’s blog post https://blogs.ubc.ca/gordonblog/)

According to Gordon Woo’s post which talks about business ethic, HP lays off great amount of employees. Laying off employees seems like the fastest and most direct way to cut the cost, but it brings many problems after. First of all, it shows that the company doesnt concern about the stuffs. This is a business ethic problem. Actually there are many ways of cutting cost, such as find new and cheaper resources. Second, the restructuring can create the insecurity among the employees. They are afraid of losing jobs. Under this situation, they can not concentrate to the work due to the negative working environment. The workers’ emotion directly affect their performance and the company’s profit. Most of the time it is not worth to reduce cost in this way. In my opinion, companies which lay off big amount of employees for cutting down the production fee is immoral and cold-blooded since the employees input their work and effort. Do you think of any better ways of cutting down the cost?

The business ethics is an controversial problem in the business market which now is full of competitions. Every company wants to beat the others and gains the maximum profit. Companies are struggling between the profits and the legality, or  the honesty to the customers. The article “It’s Not That Easy Going Green” talks about the business ethics against the environment. Berry is an ardent environmentalist. He recently discovered that his cotton industry ironically hurting the environment and the food system. As the CEO of Apparel Source Inc., he chooses to follow his passion. He uses the organic cotton instead of the traditional one, although the new material costs more money. The next step he does is to convince the retailers to sell his organic cotton garments. Berry finally did the bold shift for his company. It is not an easy decision to choose between the profit and the environment. Many companies consider that the environment is much less related to themselves than the profit, and that’s why the business ethics problems exist nowadays.

http://www.inc.com/magazine/19990501/791_pagen_2.html