How was Ken Kendrick of The Peanut Corporation of America a typical whistleblower? An atypical whistleblower?
Mr. Kendrick's was a typical whistleblower because he tried to resolve the issue internally with his manager and the CEO. He was an atypical whistleblower because he next tried to deal with the problems anonymously and then left the company without doing anything more until a salmonella outbreak at a different PCA plant. Second, although he realizes that he did the right thing, he sees himself as more of a "prison snitch" than a whistleblower.
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a. Supplementary service innovations b. Product line extensions c. Major product innovations d. Process line extensions e. Self-sustaining innovations
The ________ Act, enacted by Congress in 2002, requires public companies to adopt codes of ethics and establishes criminal penalties for companies that partake in violations
A) Glass-Steagall B) Sarbanes-Oxley C) False Claims D) Business Norms
The process of benchmarking SunPower's value chain activities against its rivals in the solar power industry would not entail
A. identifying the best practices in performing various value chain activities. B. taking actions to improve a company's cost competitiveness when benchmarking reveals that its costs and results of performing an activity are not as good as what other companies have achieved. C. constructing a company value chain and identifying which activities are primary and which are support activities. D. making cross-company comparisons of the costs of performing specific value chain activities. E. learning how best practice companies achieve lower costs or better results in performing benchmarked activities.
One of Isaiah's primary activities in his career as a supervisor at Williams Bird Food Inc. is working with his middle manager, Joseph, to introduce new growth opportunities in the business (such as expanding into exotic bird foods) and help the people who actually manufacture the food. Isaiah is most likely a(n)
A. top-level manager. B. strategic manager. C. administrative controller. D. frontline manager. E. tactical manager.