INTRODUCTION The 3M Company, formerly known as the Minnesota Mining and Manufacturing Company, is an American multinational conglomerate corporation based in Maplewood, Minnesota, a suburb of St. Paul. With US$30 billion(£20 billion) in annual sales, 3M employs 88,000 people worldwide and produces more than 55,000 products, including: adhesives, abrasives, laminates, passive fire protection, dental and orthodontic products, electronic materials, medical products, car-care products (sun films, polish, wax, car shampoo, treatment for the exterior, interior and the under chassis rust protection),electronic circuits, and optical films. 3M has operations in more than 65 countries including 29 international companies with manufacturing operations and 35 companies …show more content…
Ethics concern an individual’s moral judgements about right and wrong. Decisions taken within an organisation may be made by individuals or groups, but whoever makes them will be influenced by the culture of the company
Ethical behaviour and corporate social responsibility can bring significant benefits to a business. For example, they may:
• Attract customers to the firm’s products, which means boosting sales and profits
• Make employees want to stay with the business, reduce labour turnover and therefore increase productivity
• Attract more employees wanting to work for the business, reduce recruitment costs and enable the company to get the most talented employees
• Attract investors and keep the company’s share price high, thereby protecting the business from takeover.
VALUES OF THE COMPANY
• Act with uncompromising honesty and integrity in everything we do.
• Satisfy our customers with innovative technology and superior quality, value and service.
• Provide our investors an attractive return through sustainable, global growth.
• Respect our social and physical environment around the world.
• Value and develop our employees' diverse talents, initiative and
This helps in maintaining a friendly relation with the members later on. This in turn, helps in the motivation of employees which result in the firm’s success.
Try to stop all the employees from leaving the company because when staff retention is poor when we also higher new employees they are taking time to learn about the company and whenever a new staff comes in must get proper training before they start doing the
Highly skilled, loyal workers that provide steady employment throughout the year. Employees are the foundation of this firm and keeping them happy and loyal lowers the chances of disputes and improves production and efficiency.
Ethics is the process of doing right or wrong. It assists a person in the deciding if something is moral or immoral or if it is socially desirable (Dess, McNamara, & Eisner, 2016, p. 368). A person can get his or her ethics from religious beliefs, heritage, family, the community, education and friends. Organizational ethics is the values, attitudes and behavioral patterns defined by the organizations culture. Organizational ethics determine what is acceptable behavior.
Speedup time to market. Because there are more people involved the process of innovation is faster
Ethics are principles of behaviour that distinguish between right and wrong. Resnik (2011) defines ethics as” a method, procedure, or perspective for deciding how to act and for analysing complex problems and issues” (p.1). People face ethical decisions; however, People working in business frequently face ethical decisions. Business ethics is the evaluation of business activities and behaviour as right or wrong (Society for Business Ethics, 1991).
Give employees the level of energy, commitment, and creativity that they can add to jobs.
• Growing our own talent. • Model what you want from the employees. Employees • Hiring great people.
Ethics is defined as the set of moral principles or values that defines right and wrong for a person or group. The problem with ethics in today’s world is most employees do not believe their organizations leadership is ethical. The other consideration is one of mistrust. Employees are afraid to report anything for fear of retaliation.
By offering employees an increase based on good work performance or by completing jobs on a timely basis employees are motivated to do the best they can for the company. Employees will strive to do the best they can and excel at their job. The company also benefits by being able to set up guidelines of what is expected and by rewarding employees they will have employees that are accomplishing more and have a better attitude about their job. Long term by giving employees increases employees will be apt to stay with the company and this benefits the company in not having a high turn-over
Retention of key employees, improving controls, procedures, streamlining processes, rewarding ideas to "kill stupid rules" and improve customer experience. TD trains employees
Ethics is the application of one’s personal beliefs and the impact on how a person makes decisions regarding the relationships involving a company. The most common agents that involve a person’s decisions are owners, employees, customers, clients,
If an employee is under-performing for any reason this will have a negative impact on the
1. Better resource allocation to reduce variable costs. The company operates in more efficient resources.
Ethics are the principles and values an individual uses to govern his activities and decisions. In an organization, a code of Ethics is a set of principles that guides the organization in its programs, policies and decisions for the business. The ethical philosophy that is used by an organization to conduct business can affect the reputation, productivity and bottom line of the business (1).