For your SLP this session you will be asked to review articles on business ethics from the Trident Online
Library. You will review one or more articles each in Modules 1 through 4 dealing with different ethical
concepts.
In this SLP we will be reviewing articles that cover the concept of stakeholder management. Stakeholders are
important to consider in significant business-related decisions. This is because organizational decisions –
especially substantial decisions involving significant resource allocations/re-allocations – tend to impact various
stakeholder groups as you will be reminded in your reading. These stakeholders may have the power to impact
the organization’s success.
Assignment Instructions:
In this assignment you will be asked to apply stakeholder management theory to the following scenario:
A public corporation of 980 employees manufactures a popular brand of garments (mostly jeans) that are
primarily made and sold in America nation-wide. It has a large contingent of employees in several small rural
communities in the Eastern US and is the primary employer in all of those communities. Two of its 5 shops are
unionized, but the union and management have a good working relationship. The company has traditionally
marketed its clothing line as “Made in the USA” and attracted a bit of a “cult-like” following as a result, but an
outside consulting firm has suggested that significantly greater profits are possible if a different strategy is
employed. The corporation is subsequently considering whether to off-shore its manufacturing facilities to a
poor nation to save money on labor. It would also discretely discontinue its “Made in the USA” marketing ads
and hopefully ride the wave of its previous marketing campaigns for a while. It is estimated that total cost per
unit of production will be decreased by one third which equates to tens of millions of dollars.
Please write a 2-3 page paper in which you respond to the following:
Provide a paragraph summarizing the concept of stakeholder management based on your readings.
How do you think the following stakeholder groups in the above scenario will be impacted?
Employees/unions
Communities
Stockholders
What would you recommend the employer described above should do?