Corporate Responsibilities, Consumer Stakeholders, and Environment (Essay Sample)

Corporate Responsibilities, Consumer Stakeholders, and Environment
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1.0 Deceitful or false advertising of corporation
Dishonest advertising refers to advertising techniques used by an organization to mislead the customer and generate their profit. This kind of advertising provides false information to the consumer who lacks enough information for a particular product CITATION Uni05 \l 1033 (Dame, 2005). For example, incorporation that manufactures eclipse gum they claimed that their new ingredients in the gum- magnolia bark extract had germ-killing properties. The customers sued the Wrigley in a federal court claiming the subsidiary company of privately owned corporation of Mars Inc. made false advertising about the claim of the germ-killing ingredient. As part of the settlement demand, the company changed how they market and label the gums. They agreed also to pay $6million to $7 million to a fund that will reimburse the customers. I agree with the claims in that the corporation had a misleading advertisement and as part of marketing, they wanted to sell their products more. In addition, they lost the case between Wrigley vs. consumers CITATION Sul11 \l 1033 (Sullivan, 2011).
1 Advertising Regulation
Advertising plays a crucial role in all the markets economies. It stimulates innovation and growth; it encourages competition, and it increases the consumer choice. In order to fulfil this task, advertising must have a high level of consumer trust and confidence. It should also be legal, and truthful. If you misled consumers by an advertisement, they would surely never buy that particular product again CITATION Uni05 \l 1033 (Dame, 2005). Bad advertising even though a small part of the whole would gradually outweigh the confidence of the customer. It is of benefit of the advertising industry to ensure advertising is good.
2 Corporate Negligence
Negligence is a term used to characterize a conduct that brings an unreasonable risk of harm to other individuals. In order to prove, claim of negligence, a party would have to show various things. In the example, Juliet a friend of mine consumed Taco Bells seasoned beef and later she became sick of stomach upset, and she was admitted to hospital. I communicated the complaint to the company that manufactures it. My claims based on the public policy demands that the state "for any responsibility it should be dwelt with, whenever it reduces the hazards to life and health inherent in any defective products that reach the market." CITATION Gri10 \l 1033 (Griseri, P., & Seppala, N., 2010) The company refuted the claims and stated the person claiming the injuries had to show that the food was inadequate. The general rule for negligence is that a corporation has a duty towards any individual, at any time, to exercise reasonable care for a person physical safety. The best approach would have been to have a dialogue with the company and come up with a settlement.
3 Cigarette, cigar and pipe smoking
They should be ban from the public. Smoking can cause serious health issues to those smoking and the passive smokers around them. Recent studies have proved that tobacco smoke contains many harmful substances like, carcinogens and nicotine that are very addictive. It has also shown that it causes cancer, heart diseases, and emphysema. Inhaling smoke as a passive smoker can be deadly CITATION Sul11 \l 1033 (Sullivan, 2011). The research has shown that exposure to cigarette smoke has little as 30 minutes a day can raise the risk of non-smoker to suffer a heart attack.
4 Environmental Damage
Most countries depend on oil. States would go to lengths to acquire it. Many of the production industry require it, but this has caused severe damage to the environment. Recent research has shown oil production or transportation can cause disruption of human population or animals. A recent oil spillage by US based production caused a significant death of marine life in the ecosystem. It resulted to death of many water animals. The oil had chemical components that were toxic CITATION Ram07 \l 1033 (Ramamoorthy, S., & Baddaloo, E. G. Y, 2007). The various ways to reduce the harmful effects on the environment; There should be voluntary cleanup programs by the corporations, corporation to comply with regulations enacted by government. The companies should also strengthen their regulatory standards to achieve their certification in all trading countries.
5 Corporate helping Environment
In an article recently publish by Forbes on America oil production; they are investing millions of dollars to prevent oil spills. They have acquired secondary containment systems and machineries. They have also acquired detectors, motion sensors and installed on the pipelines. This would help to know if there is any problem in the pipeline like spillage or blockage CITATION Ram07 \l 1033 (Ramamoorthy, S., & Baddaloo, E. G. Y, 2007). This method will be effective in helping the environment. It will be possible to counter the spillage, blockages, and breakages.
Part II: Case study case-16
1 Production of biofuels
The production of biofuels is a viable solution to address the world’s energy needs. This is evident in that, over the recent past the emission of gases has increased significantly on to the atmosphere. In the result of this, there are changes of temperature, which will lead to global warming if not curbed CITATION Bil06 \l 1033 (Bily, 2006). Accor...