The Organizational Study of Levi Strauss

“We strive to meet the highest ethical standards in all business dealings. We are honest with others and ourselves. We do what we say we will do.”

Businesses today face a plethora of ethical duties such as upholding corporate governance, maintaining stakeholder relationships, and presenting an image of social responsibility. In review of Company Q’s (Q) current ethics culture, its image in regards to social responsibility is not equivalent to that of its competitors. In a growing market faced with increasingly challenging competition, there are several areas that Q can and needs to address to bring the company to a level of social responsibility that exceeds stakeholder expectations. First, attention Q needs to address market demands for additional locations to better

In business, Anne Lawrence and James Weber (2014) identify enlightened self-interest as a corporation’s recognition that using corporate resource to serve others, including customers, employees, and the community as a whole, is in the best interest of the company. This social responsibility enhances the company’s image within the community, which increases both customer loyalty and satisfaction of employees. Some of the ways that businesses serve others is through philanthropy and backing environmental sustainability. Within his lecture on ethics and corporate responsibility, Dr. Kahlib Fischer (n.d.) encourages the importance of corporate social responsibility (CSR) in that it provides mutual benefit to both the organization and the community.

The Gold Rush created many opportunities for up and coming entrepreneurs such as Levi Strauss, Henry Wells and William Fargo, as well as John Studebaker. Levi Strauss invented the blue jeans for the miners and the working class, which became loved by all. Levi Strauss went to San Francisco in 1853 to take advantage of the giant sales opportunity in California (PBS.com). Once in San Francisco, Levi opened up a store and began to sell merchandise. John Davis, a Nevada tailor, approached Levi Strauss and wanted to create a partnership for his heavy duty cotton work pants (PBS.com). The jeans became a huge success with miners, cowboys, and the working class. “By the end of 1873, thousands of San Franciscans were wearing Strauss and Davis's pants”

that it makes clear that the company expects its people to recognize the ethical dimensions in decision and actions

It is the responsibility of the HR department that all related policies and procedures are developed in line with our vision and strategy and with ethicality, the Charity’s adherence to its social responsibilities and business ethics. Nowadays businesses are expected to be guided not only by legislation but by the same moral and ethical decisions that guide how we behave. The charity is committed to equality of opportunity and our diverse workforce is supported by hiring and promotion of staff from minority groups.

Here at Company X we strive for success using a set of ethical standards that will ensure peak employee performance as well as employee satisfaction at the company. We strive for excellence via training and employee education on policies and procedures.

One man revolutionized the fashion industry forever. He was known as Levi Strauss (February 26, 1829 – September 26, 1902 (Bellis, n.d.) commonly referred to as the creator of the blue jean. Strauss was born in Buttenheim, Kingdom of Bavaria Germany, to Hirsch Strauss and his second wife, Rebecca Haas Strauss. They were a large Jewish family. Only one of the 6 children were born with the same mother as Strauss. The rest of the children were from Strauss’s father’s first wife Mathilde Baumann Strauss. Strauss was originally named Loeb until he later changed his name to “Levy” then what we now know as** “Levi”. Much like a typical Jewish family in Germany, the Strauss family faced a lot of discrimination. Even as early 1800;s Without special

J.Crew began in 1947 as a low priced clothing company that sold its merchandise door-to-door. It was originally called Popular Club but the name was eventually changed to J.Crew to better suit its preppy image. In 1983 the company released its first catalog in an effort to mimic the success of like Lands’ End and L.L. Bean. People fell in love with the company’s preppy aesthetic that was much more affordable than designers like Ralph Lauren. Within the decade, the company grew its customer base exponentially. Their sales increased from $3 Million to $100 Million in less than 10 years. In 1989 the company expanded into retail stores with their first brick-and-mortar location in South Street Seaport in New York.

In recent years employees from ASDA stores and depots have involves in the community. This included, working with local community raising money for charities. ASDA has mission, vision, objectives, aims, goals, values, profits, market share, growth, return on capital employed (ROCE), sales, service level, customer satisfaction. Corporate responsibility and ethic issue

Today’s business world presents numerous ethical issues. In today’s world above board/moral ethics in organizations do not often materialize intuitively. Organization must strive to provide employees with a clear understanding of the overall company vision. This will aid employees in practicing the code of ethics, policies and procedures in the workplace. Companies must be unwavering in continuously delivering the uppermost ethics of provision in which customers, applicants and employees are entitled to under fair business practices. One major core value is to uphold responsible and fair business practices.

Companies are supposed to be able to achieve and demonstrate an ever increasing performance showing improvement on leading in their industries to acquire competitive advantages. Having a high level of performance could be greatest achieved with competent and motivated employees. The conduct of business in an organization with an ethical manner is of great importance to secure an increasing performance as well. Organizations functioning towards ethical standards should ensure unbiased applications of business and recall a sense of justice to stimulate motivation among their employees. Employees that are motivated through a positive ethical organizational climate and leadership do much better than a less motivated employee. This promotes the organizational achievement that causes

One company that faces these cultural issues daily is Levi Strauss and Company. Levi Strauss and Company is a large American company founder in 1853 and is well known for its denim line. Currently Levi Strauss and Co. has operations in over 110 countries with over half of its corporate revenues coming from outside the United States. In American history we have all heard complaints of companies in the garment industry hiring underage employees outside the United States and poor working conditions. Levi Strauss and Company has not been left out of these accusations.

I. Attention Getter: The Society of Human Resource Management quoted John Green, a Vice President of Human Resources in an article they released called The Look and Feel of Strategic Human Resource Management: Conversations with Senior HR Executive saying “In the past, when I started the business, the people would look for security and plan to be there the rest of their life. They had more of an attitude of “What can I bring to the company?” But in today’s world, we have employees with the attitude of “What can the company do for me?” Now we try to tailor our employee benefits programs to meet the needs of our employees in order to keep them, and at the same time, make our employees fit the business model that we are in. Unlike the past, today, when we are planning and developing business plans for the future, we have to take into consideration the skills of our workforce and what it wants from us.”

New product development: Levi Strauss and co.’s women’s wear division markets several line of casual sport wear including jeans, slack and knit and woven tops, blazers and skirts. New products are continuously introduced by Levis Strauss. The recent introduction of women 501 jeans has been very successful.