We have seen for a couple of years that Wells Fargo goes under a lot of pressure and unrealistic sales target to built on selling as many products to customers as possible and to where we see employees committing fraud. “Former employees of Wells Fargo said that is what they face on the job,” (Matt Egan). And now the bank is struggling to rebuild trust in an industry already fighting banker reputation. Wells Fargo found 2 million fake accounts were opened by bank workers without customer’s authorization and secretly 5,300 hundred employees were fired, Wells Fargo finds $185 millions of dollars. Wells Fargo is taking stronger steps to address the scandal”, (Matt Egan). Wells Fargo said they have strengthened the company training program controls …show more content…
“Wells Fargo failed on instituting sales goals, minimizing the problem, blaming employees, neglecting to call for help and ignoring warning signs” (Burns, 2016). Trust comes to both ways if the employees do not trust the bank the problem cannot be fixed, an organization if there is no trust there is no way it can run smoothly, because of the lack of trust customers and team members were harmed in the process. While trust is broken between management and the employees which create a lack of trust between the workers in the organization. This is a competitive environment where if you cannot stay on sales goal we seen employees will be fired, which created a bad relationship where you cannot trust the people you work with. And we also saw Wells Fargo defined as a fear of conflict as well. Which lead to major issues to the organizations, where we see that the organization is performing illegal and morally wrong acts. One of the solutions that I have to solve the trust issues was Wells Fargo can host a retreat for the workers where they can have a different exercise that builds trust among others workers and communicate with one another, so the problem can be …show more content…
Lencioni wants us to understand that profit is not the only way to determine if a team can be successful and there are other ways to make an organization flourish. In this case, Wells Fargo did that which led to a dysfunction in their organization and had many team members cared about individual instead of the organization as a whole. “Bloomberg has claimed that an outside review into more than 165 million deposit and credit-card accounts found an additional 1.4 million that were potentially unauthorized, bringing the total to about 3.5 million” (Keller). Wells Fargo should address the scandal by holding the executive accountable for what happened, instead of firing employees only. And they have to make sure investors are aware of the issues that are going in the organizations and figuring out how they can fix it. And they have to communicate frequently to make sure nothing like this ever happen
There is a possibility of leakage of information by some or the other person in the organization. So, I doubt that nobody in Wells Fargo or in regulation did have any part to play in this, maybe they turned a blind eye. I believe that corporates always take the easiest way to get out of any imperative ethical issues, they blame their employees for the wrongdoings and keep top management safe. Like, in this case, Wells Fargo fired more than five thousand employees in response to the issue of cross-selling and no action was taken against the top officials of the company. It seems as if the top management is immune to such ethics-related issues.
fact, when U.S. senators requested the Labor department investigate the matter, they found lawsuits that went all the way back to 1999 for the same type of behavior (Egan, 2016). According to the Fair Labor Standards Act of 1938 the maltreatment behavior of the Wells Fargo managers against their employees was unlawful, this act was created to protect employees from being forced to work extra hours for little or no pay and instead guaranteed time-and-half rates for anything over a 40-hour workweek (Thomas, 2014). In response to these claims Wells Fargo issued a statement that insists they comply with the FSLA and that their employees are paid fairly. However, once again Grourley testified that during his time with the bank, managers would
Per CFBP, Wells Fargo employees temporarily funded newly-opened accounts by transferring funds from consumers’ existing accounts. The violations committed by Wells Fargo include:
Wells Fargo has a social responsibility to its customers to fulfill their economic, legal, ethical, and philanthropic needs. The scandal has presented numerous legal issues. It was negligent of the bank's executives and managers by placing impossible sales goals on lower level employees then encouraging, and pressuring them to meet these goals. The use of customer's information for fraudulent purposes was an invasion of customers privacy. Wells Fargo has violated the Federal Trade Commission Act which protects customers from unfair practices and has also violated the Sarbanes-Oxley Act (Thorne, 2011).
"We Can Do It!' is familiar slogan on a World War II poster featuring Rosie the Riverter. Today, her image serves as both a cultural icon for gender equality. During World War II, Rosie's image represented the spirit of the American women working in factories and shipyards while American men enlisted in service. Like all propaganda posters, her image served a clear patriotic purpose. World War II propaganda posters effectively employed techniques that strengthened patriotism while promoting support of the war effort by emphasizing a strong work ethic.
There was a dismissal of 5,300 employees and $185 million in fines against Wells Fargo (Stewart, 2017). The bank’s pressure-cooker sales environment made a toxic sales culture. Wells Fargo held unrealistic sale quotas to its employees and held policies that drove employees to participate in illegal behaviors to meet unreachable goals. Employees opened millions of unauthorized credit cards and deposit accounts, fees and other charges were racked up, money was transferred from customers’ accounts without their knowledge and their permission, they also created phony email addresses to enroll customers in online banking services, all to hit sale targets and receive bonuses. Employees who called attention to the abusive, fraudulent behaviors were ignored and wrongfully terminated and retaliated
We have been taught, that if you are not getting the results you desire, there is something wrong with your team (Fischer & Greene, 2017). Clearly there is something wrong with this company’s team. At Wells Fargo there is a sever absence in trust between their employees and management. Two of the characteristics that are found in teams with no trust are, employees that “conceal their weaknesses and mistakes from one another” and the other is when “people hesitate to ask for help or provide constructive feedback” (Lencioni, n.d.). This is apparent at Wells Fargo because the employees did not trust their supervisors enough to approach them about these unattainable objectives or questions about how to properly do things to be able to reach these goals in a legal way. I also realized that there is a sever lack of unfiltered conflict at Wells Fargo. Some characteristics of a team that lack unfiltered conflict are teams that create an environment where back-channel politics and personal attacks thrive (Lencioni, n.d.). Teams that lack unfiltered conflict also ignore controversial topics that are critical to team success (Lencioni, n.d.). This is exactly what is going on at Wells Fargo. As we heard from Mr. Fischer and Mr. Greene, of Six Bends Harley Davidson, both gentlemen emphasized the importance of unfiltered conflict between employees in a company. These employees were intimidated by management and did not have the right or courage to engage in unfiltered conflict. Wells Fargo is not a team environment, instead it seems like a
This fear and intimidation was brought on by the extreme sales goals set by the company, which included selling various products to every day depositors who only wanted to maintain their standard checking account. Each employee was expected to push at least eight other accounts on these customers and they would be monitored on a regular basis to be determined if they were meeting their required quotas (Hightower, 2016). All this pressure pushed from management to the employees would squeeze employees to their breaking point, which was all for the sole purpose of CEO Jon Stumpf and his board of directors to drive up values on the Wells Fargo stock and put millions of dollars in their own pockets while others suffered (Cameron, 2016). Based
The ethics of the bank requires that there is ethics of integrity. It is supposed to be created through a culture in the bank and it should be one of the banks priorities because this is a business and they gain the profits from the people they serve on daily basis. Even if the bank shall survive this wave of scandal is so difficult now to convince any client to join this Wells Fargo which shall cause them a lot of money. Also all the old customers may start withdrawing and looking for other banks which they feel are more secure when they are keeping the money for them. It is so hurting and distrustful for a banking instead of accruing money in the accounts of their customers what they wells was doing was that it was misusing their money and giving them extra fees.
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Wells Fargo fired 5300 employees. The employees took millions in fees by regularly opening new
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