Todd Carnes

1. Discuss how the corporate culture at Ben & Jerrys, as describe in this case, influences the daily implementation of ethical decisions in the firm. The high society believes that the increase, economic, and mixer aspects of its mission statement argon equally important, that mutual respect from everyone in the communities in which they are part of are necessary for a neighborlyly responsible (and ethical) existence. This vision lays the groundwork in which the friendship operates.They espouse a somewhat fun and unorthodox culture, from the way they name their administrative positions, to their product branding. They also feel strongly ab kayoed supporting the communitywhen they offered their initial stock to the public, it was only initially restricted to Vermont residents. The concept of caring capitalist economy is being consciously followed in such a way that the company operates not for the sole purpose of profit.Since its inception, Ben & Jerrys operated with the improve ment of the lives of its employees and the community in head teacherfrom creating charity projects, giving to environmental causes, and implementing streamlined employee compensationsBen & Jerrys tries to stick to its outcome determine and always gives something back to the community. 2. In what other ways could Ben & Jerrys display to stakeholders its commitment to ethical and socially responsible conduct? In Ben & Jerrys amicable Audit, its social missions and environmental accomplishments are clearly outlined.However, there were concerns that employee honorablee is low, by and voluminous because of the assumption that the company, particularly the top management, does not/would not remain pull to its values. Since employees are in the core of the organizations mission and values (and are therefore major stakeholders in the company), Ben & Jerrys should not take this field of study lightlythey should create more initiatives and opportunities to affirm their commitment t o the community. 3. How sewer such companies protect their core values as they grow from small firms into large ones and/or are acquired by multinational conglomerates?Companies like Ben & Jerrys, which start out small but are ultimately acquired by conglomerates (such as Unilever) can protect their ethical and social platforms first by a licitly binding pre-acquisition agreement to the effect that the constituents of the original companies top management is preserved, and that whoever are the progenitors of the companys ethical and socially aware paradigm remain in control and thus have the ability to preserve the moral foundations of the company.Upon acquisition, said management should not allow the safety buffer of the revolutionary umbrella company to make them complacent about upholding their original goals. The company should keep up public and internal awareness of the companys ethical and social responsibilities. Public awareness, in particular, will be a positive capric ious force for the companys goals.