Nestle Company

Ethics

The ethical issues affecting Nestlé are, for instance, convincing mothers to use their newly invented product, infant formula preferred to the nutritious breast milk. While the company is aware of the consequences, their product can have to the babies, making the matter worse the company gave it to the less developed countries where poverty is the primary challenge. Another ethical issue is the ignorance of child labour in the Ivorian plantation (Jarzyna, 2016).

The company is aware of the child labour carried out by its partner but chooses to mute over the same among the company's practices in employment is to protect the children against any form of child labour, which in this case not adhered.

The company also violates the supply code where the company even mislabels its products misleading the consumers. Therefore, ethics in the company, extensive training, development practices, product promotion, and employment are not clear.

Ethics is significant in HRM as it covers human concerns particularly those of reimbursement, industrial relations and health and safety issues, which serves the role of HRM to develop labour and organisations’ activities. Accordingly, SHRM is considered as ethical stewardship. Therefore, It is recommended that HR professionals have to enhance their performance according to what the modern economic environment demands in term of ethical duties. If they are committed to an ethical stewardship basis as transformative leaders, they will realise their ethical duties and become more effective in assisting their organizations to achieve their goals, and create a more satisfying workplace for employees.

According to my research so far, Nestle is classified as a matrix organization, where employees enjoy twofold reporting relationships - as a functional manager and a product manager. At a macro level, Nestle seems to be classic three-box model.

Nestlé is a company that its HR strategies are developed while paying attention to its business objectives globally. This paper may tend to focus more on the Nestlé in the UK. The company uses the partnership approach to tackle the global issue and innovation being the company's main competitive advantage. Universally the company can customize products to match the consumer preferences in the local market as it believes there are no global consumers. Nestlé aims at increasing the number of customers, its profits and sales as well as improving the living standards everywhere.

It also values the strength of its employees thus all the employees are entitled to giving views and ideas, hence the company’s classification as horizontal fit. The company carries out polycentric staffing as it hires management from its demographic location while employing the Harvard model, where it recognizes all its stakeholders within the organization. Nestlé has very high commitment human practices thus contingent on the allegations concerning their ethics, but due to the several complains the SHRM seems not working as it should be.

I wish to focus on the HRM practices that the company operates in concerning its ethics in extensive employee training, development practices, and product promotion. Paying more attention to their practices and procedures to ensure that they take into account the societal needs and rights.

Nestlé is a global well-working company despite the unethical practices within the company. The company’s profit-making motives lead to the evolvement of the wrong issues. 90% of the company’s violations are found to be complying with its policies, and the company’s staff mostly causes this. With the recent breach of the supply code in the UK, consumers are confused over the products; this is due to the mislabelling. Special attention will be paid at the human resource areas, especially the training, development practices, product promotion, employment and their importance in the Nestlé practices and policies

I wish to focus on the HRM practices that the company operates in concerning its ethics in extensive employee training, development practices, and product promotion. Paying more attention to their practices and procedures to ensure that they take into account the societal needs and rights.

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