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Nestle’s portfolio has literally cover most of the foods and beverages category for instance, baby foods, bottled water, cereals, chocolate and confectionery, coffee, culinary, chilled and frozen foods, dairy, drinks, food service, healthcare nutrition, ice cream, petcare, sport nutrition and weight management. Identification Stakeholders Nestle’s engagement of stakeholders is based on their Creating Shared Value (CSV), which is allowing them to identify and determine emerging issues, to share the responses among the stakeholders and to continue to drive performance improvements. Nestle’s stakeholders can be categorized into three major groups. First group is the group of political which consists of Global Business Leaders, Non-profit Organizations (NGOs), Academics, International Organization, and Government Official. This particular group serves the common interests with Nestle which is in sharing the fresh thoughts and ideas on behalf of how the NGOs, governments and businesses can work closely together in order to eliminate the barrier between developments goals and commercial needs. Second group is the group of experts in social and environmental area that is relevant to Nestle’s field. This group is to communicate Nestle’s approaches towards the people and environment and collect and examine feedbacks based on CSV efforts and plans. Last group is the group of farmers, traders and key processors that contribute help in agriculture resources of Nestle. This interest in this group is to give the supports to farmers and  encourage sustainable development in agriculture worldwide. In addition to this, the stakeholders of Nestle are also relatively supportive to the CSV and were also highly corresponding about the issues, interests and specific areas of concern for example, the growing importance of climate change, the uprising challenges of both under-nutrition and obesity, the reduction of biodiversity from deprived land management, the competition between agriculture land and water resources from biofuels, child labour and also insufficient opportunity and attention given to support the vital role of women in agriculture. Ethical Issues Despite of being a well-known company, however, the Nestle Company has been boycotted and been listed one of the companies that is doing unethical acts which cause harm towards the consumers or their workers. Based on studies and researches, several cases and incidents have been investigated in regards of Nestle doing unethically. Marketing Strategy According to press releases and also Baby Milk Action (2012), one of the Nestle’s present marketing strategies are to discourage the ‘breastfeeding’ of mother to child. In additional to this, Nestle is also adding several logos and labels in the support of advertising reflect to consuming their products, in this case which is baby foods, is more ‘healthy’ and ‘effective’ than consuming mother’s breast milk and this leads to a moral issues for the mothers. On top of that, Nestle is also by this advertisement generalizing that babies who are being breastfed, therefore, are more likely to become sick due to the poor condition of the mother. These advertisements can be misled to exaggeration which is by marking facts with unsupported evidences. Besides that, the unethical act in exaggerating of the advertising continues where the Nestle Company is targeting on health workers with the claims of their newly formulated formula ‘The Gold’ in their foods and beverages which could possibly reduce diarrhea, cure brain and eye development and also strengthen the immune system. Several investigations was required by the World Health Assembly in order to examine the ‘effectiveness’ of ‘The Gold’ formula, however, been rejected by Nestle Company due to the reason of their research and  development is strictly private and confidential. Last but not least, the Baby Milk Action is also questioning about the false reporting that Nestle has been reported towards their baby food products. The United Reformed Church has spotted Nestle have violated several International Codes of Marketing Breast-Milk Substitutes, unfortunately, it was being false reported in their policy statements and reports saying the acts of Nestle doing has no harm towards their consumers, however, it does actually harms health. The investigation is still on going, but it has been dismissed constantly. ‘Nestle has gone to great lengths to enhance its corporate image but its disdain for the International Code’, says Yeong Joo Kean, legal advisor of International Code Documentation Centre. This supports that Nestle, in the desperation of enhancing brand images, however, violates several to exchange the success of its company by putting harm towards their consumers. Major Factors That Impact the Issue There are many factors that impact the ethical issue of Nestle, from social, economic and legal side. In another word, the unethical issues and actions of a company is always caused by the impacts from outside. Firstly, social factors affected the ethical issue of Nestle’s exaggeration advertising on its products. There are 3 reasons why Nestle exaggerate their advertisements and they are the market dominate, effectiveness of advertising and lack of consumers knowledge. Advertisements are effective because the range of advertising is very wide in the areas such as television, radio and online. An advertisement is easier to reach people in many different ways and easier to catch up people’s attention by using emotion and over exaggeration (Simmons, 2012). Besides that, according to Euromonitor International Plc (2010), Nestle is dominating in foods and beverages market. The effective of Nestle’s brand name and the consumer loyalty is high; therefore, consumers are easier to believe the products from Nestle without any rational judgments. At the same time, there are lack of knowledge on the ingredient and the effects of the products from Nestle because those ingredients used are not be able for people to see and only based on the verification. However, those verifications can only be forged by Nestle. Based on the factors above, Nestle exaggerate their advertisement by saying that their baby milk is better than breastfeeding in order to encourage people consume  more on their products. Another major factor is economy and it is explained by the ethical issues of Nestle is due to the demand of their product and also the desires of increase market share and revenues. Nestle aimed to maximize their profits and ignore the social responsibility of provide the truth of their products to their stakeholders (Shaw & Berry, 2010). The needs from economy growth on Nestle drove them into ethical issue which exaggerate their products and attract people to consume and increase the interest of the shareholders. Legal factor also impacted on the ethical issues of Nestle. As mentioned before, several investigations was required by the World Health Assembly in order to examine the ‘effectiveness’ of ‘The Gold’ formula† but has been rejected by Nestle because they said the formula is private and confidential. Nestle protected their formula by legal system and this resulted in unjudged of the effectiveness of their products. The real effects of â€Å"The Gold Formula† are covered by Nestle and encouraged the ethical issue of exaggeration advertising. Relevant Ethical Theories and Concepts As from the case regarding the boycott towards Nestle that were raised by the baby milk action organization, Nestle were said to be an unethical company as they used deceptive advertising to target the 3rd world countries while they are having language and literally barriers. (Kinnaird, 2011) Corporate Social Responsibility (CSR) has the twin effects of improving both short term and long-term corporate performance, furthermore, helps improve financial performance, enhance brand image and an increases the ability to attract and retain the best workforce. For a business to be successful in the long term it has to create value, not only for its shareholders but also for society. As mentioned by Nestle, the organizations’ approach is based on a long-term view, creating significant value to the society and also to maximizes the shareholder’s value as well as profit (Nestlà ©Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s Corporate Business Principles, 2012) but as a matter of fact, in 1974, Nestle started to sell infant formula at developing countries and has a result of malnutrition and caused death of babies. Nestle did not fulfilled the  responsibility to have an obligation to benefit the society at large. (Kinnaird, 2011) Kenneth Arrow mentioned that â€Å"there are two types of situation in which the simple rule of maximizing profit is socially inefficient: the case in which the costs are not paid for, as in pollution, and the case in which the seller has considerably more knowledge about his product than the buyer.† From the view of business, Ne stle were said supported by this statement as they are providing a wider range of choices to their customers. However, in the case where Nestle used deceptive advertising towards the market had led their consumer to a harmful situation. Hence they were then boycotted by the baby milk action organization. An organization with ethical responsibility is more likely to build a good reputation, which is more likely to bring financial rewards over the long term, and since Nestle’s view is aiming for long term, they should stop the trend of decreasing breastfeeding and advertising exaggerated formula to their customer. In the 3rd world countries, most of the citizens are not educated and aware of the knowledge of bottle-feeding as compared to breast-feeding. Thus advertisement promoted by Nestle might seem very deceiving to them and tend to believe that the formula product is beneficial to their children. From the theory of Post MacPherson (Shaw, 2011) that clarify the liability of manufacturers as well as the retailers, â€Å"due-care† concept which is â€Å"idea that consumers and sellers equal and that the consumer’s interests are particularly vulnerable to being harmed by the manufacturer, who has knowledge and expertise the consumer does not have.† At the same time, manufacturers bear the heaviest responsibility to prevent the customer from being injured by defective products. Analysis of the available Options In the world of business, it is always the decision between narrow and broad view. Milton Friedman argued that business has no social responsibilities other than to maximize profit. (Shaw, 2011) Nestle by then were boycott by the baby milk organization is due to their turning point in their business as they aimed to create significant value to the society but apparently they are only focusing on maximizing the organization and the shareholder’s profit and marched towards the narrow view aspect and abandoned the obligation of bringing positive value to the society. As a matter of fact,  Nestle had come out with a framework that look into the CSR in terms of creating shared value with developments by Mark Kramer together with Professor Michael Porter of Harvard Business School. In short, creating social and environmental benefit is the key of making an organization’s competitive over other organization in the long-term, says Kramer (2006) Recommendation and Conclusions As mentioned above, Nestle has arisen social problems whereas the babies who fed on the baby milk powder are tend to become sick, in serious case of poverty, babies are dying compared to those breastfed babies. In order to defuse these social problems, Nestle should give more attention to these problems. With the issues mentioned as the deceptive advertising, society’s benefits are being reduced. They are not understanding about how the product is really providing the benefits that offered to the product users. In some case, they are lack of knowledgeable about what the advertisement is proposing due to different conditions which experienced by some countries such as the language and culture barriers. Therefore, Nestle should work against the deceptive advertising and provide more accurate information for the customers. They need to share a common goal and to get through the various aspects of the product development, manufacturing influences, customer’s benefits and the knowledge in order to link between the Nestle’s approach of Creating Shared Values. Apart from that, Nestle need has a need to build up back its company’s confidence and the trust among the company’s products with the customers. Due to the deceive advertising and defective products that brings harm to the infant, customer are becoming less trust on the company’s products and even the brands. In order to rebuild the customer’s perceptions towards the company, Nestle can come out with some new marketing strategies to promote their products. As an example, they can improve their product strategy where the ambiguous details shown on the packaging. They can improve the labels and packaging to provide more information about the baby milk powder, even in more different language based on the market country accordingly. Besides that, they can practices on their promotion strategy to promote the products itself as telling more information to the customers, publics and enable the company to answer the customers’ questions about the ambiguous details that they receive. Therefore, customer can know more about the product, in turn, confidence and trust towards the company is being enhanced. To cut a long story short, boycotts are often lead a company to face problems in earning their profits and position themselves in the market as well as maintain a good relationship with the customers who are purchasing the certain products. At the same time, they do face ethical dilemma which are bringing negative impacts to the society and in turn, it brings harm to the company. In the eyes of others, they are making priority in profit maximization; however, they have ignored the corporate social responsibility which is playing an important role in the business. In order to retain the company’s reputation, several strategies as to reduce the ethical dilemma situations, needed to be done for longer-term effects, no matter to the company or the society. Companies must not only focus on the boycott, but also work into the path of changing the rules in the product development. Bibliography Action, B. M. (2012, April 24). Protecting Breastfeeding. Retrieved October 16, 2012, from Why target Nestlà © with the boycott?: http://info.babymilkaction.org/nestlebriefing Kean, Y. J. (2005). NESTLÉ AND THE INTERNATIONAL CODE:. An analysis by the International Code Documentation Centre. Klein. J. G., Smith. N. C. & John. A. (2002). Why We Boycott: Consumer Motivations for Boycott Participation and Marketer Responses. Centre for Marketing Working Paper. No (2). 701 Nestlà ©. (2012). Nestlà © Good Foods, Good Life . Retrieved October 16, 2012, from http://www.nestle.com/Pages/Nestle.aspx Kinnaird, E. (2011 Ð ¹Ã ¸Ã » 22-March ). Nestle Infant Formula Case. From Prezi: Make Your Presentation Zoom: http://prezi.com/r2gtyqwc1gmn/copy-of-nestle-infant-formula-case/ Nestlà ©Ã¢â‚¬â„¢s Corporate Business Principles. (2012). Retrieved from Nestlà ©: http://www.nestle.com/AboutUs/BusinessPrinciples/Pages/BusinessPrinciplesHome.aspx Shaw, W. H. (2011). Business Ethics. Boston, Uni ted States of America: Wadsworth, Cencage Learning. Simmons, L. (2012). Why Advertising Is So Effective. Retrieved October 16, 2012, from Netplaces.com: http://www.netplaces.com/addiction-recovery/cultural-lures-and-addiction/why-advertising-is-so-effective.htm YUNIKA Corp. (2010). Reasons Why Advertising

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Social - Legal and Ethical Frameworks

Question: Discuss about the Social, Legal and Ethical Frameworks. Answer: Introduction: In treatment is a series film which is adopted from a Jewish popular show Be Tipul produced by Hagai Lei. The main film character is Psychologist Paul Weston who meets four patients every week and consequently encounters his therapist Mr. Amy Ryna on every Friday. The paper will focus on an episode in season three of the "In Treatment" to formulate a case study. The case study will focus on season three episode seven which involves Paul and Sunil who is a retired teacher from India and whose wife has died six months earlier thus seeking therapy from Paul the psychologist (Stern, 2014). He is also on deportation process due to a decision not to disclose the immigration papers to the police on request. On the other hand, Paul is angry with Sunil because he feels he was used by Sunil to achieve his intentions. The aim of the paper, therefore, is to analyze the ethical dilemma or issues touching on the characters in the episode as well as to offer an appropriate response by the ethical p rinciples. In episode seven of the season three, Psychologist Paul develops a caring therapeutic friendship with his client Mr. Sunil to a point of not keeping the professional boundaries required in the counseling sessions. Paul cultivates an intimate therapeutic relationship with Sunil as a result of empathy. It can be argued that this kind of a relationship result from Paul personal experiences as an immigrant from Ireland and as a divorcee. As a result, Paul works tirelessly to identify what holds back Sunil's life after the death of his wife. Some of the possible reasons Paul identifies include Sunil's manifest criticism of his Son's marriage. In addition, Paul sees the possibility of jealousy in Sunil's life due to the loss of his wife. As a result of this relationship build by Paul there lacks the requisite boundaries which must be maintained between a therapist and a client during a therapeutic session (Richards Brown, 2011). Some of the ethical and the legal principles that emerge from the episode include failure to maintain the professionalism in the therapeutic encounter as well as dishonesty. Furthermore, Sunil willingly gives wrong information to the law enforcers hence committing a crime. It is essential that a psychotherapist set and maintain professional boundaries both within the office and without. To ensure that the therapeutic session remains focused to the client it is necessary, therefore, to work within the set boundaries during the session and outside the session. In therapeutic sessions boundaries refers to the psychologist's self-discloser to the client either through communication outside the session, exchanging of gifts, touching or establishment of relationship outside the therapeutic sessions. In this case, there exist a dual relationship between the therapist and the client. This is from the fact that Paul treats Sunil as friend more than a client (Marxen, 2012). In the psychotherapy, dual relationships are discouraged to protect both the client and the psychotherapist. In addition, this kind of a relationship compromises the healing process and the entire therapeutic process. Exploitation which results from dual relationship includes business and sexual exploitation. The concern is mainly that psychotherapist or counselors may take advantage of their client due to the power they have over them. A client who is in crisis is likely to be vulnerable hence must be protected. In addition, some client may take advantage over the psychotherapist and therefore he/she needs equal protection. Sunil in this episode takes advantage over Paul to achieve his intentions of traveling back to India (Kahr, 2011). From such an instance, therefore, dual relationships in counseling sessions must be opposed to the latter. It is clear that failure to maintain the boundaries that hinder such a relationship threatens the entire therapeutic process hence, causing harm to the client. Furthermore, it is clear that failure to main boundaries has negative effects to the counseling profession. Traditional psychoanalyst theory holds that boundaries are necessary, and therefore anything contaminating the boundaries is a threat to the psychotherapist profession (Johnson, 2013). The theory advises that poor management of the boundaries must be avoided by the counseling professionals to ensure that the integrity of the clinical work is sustained. However, it is vital to distinguish between boundary violation and boundary crossing. Boundaries violation entails actions that are perpetrated by the therapist against the client which hurts client's dignity and the integrity of the profession. On the other hand, bou ndary crossing refers to a reasonable deviation from the traditional therapeutic format with an intention to benefit the client. It is unfortunate that though Paul is a professional psychotherapist he does not differentiate the two hence his inability to maintain the necessary professional boundaries (Hillman Ventura, 2012). The interaction of Paul with his client outside the therapeutic session facilitate to the friendship. At one point in the episode, Paul encourages Sunil to smoke and drink more alcohol contrary to what is expected of a therapist. In counseling interaction outside the office is highly discourage for ethical and legal reasons. Study on therapist confirms that more than seventy percent of the therapists disclose information about themselves to clients outside the office. It is therefore widely agreed that association with a client outside the therapeutic session greatly hurt the therapeutic session (Bainbridge, 2012). Psychoanalyst advises that Psychotherapist must work to maintain the image of an omnipotent therapist a quality that lacks in the relationship between Psychologist Paul and his client Mr. Sunil. Furthermore, avoiding outside office encounters aids in maintaining confidentiality. Psychotherapy is mainly founded on confidentiality and privacy which result to trust. Office se ttings, therefore, assure clients of his/her privacy and confidentiality as well as a sense of security and safety. Therapist interaction outside the office, however, must be distinguished into three types of encounters. One is perceived as part of the thought-out treatment plan. The second encounter is viewed as outside office strategy to enhance the therapeutic efficiency, and the third outside office encounter is referred to as overlapping relationship which entails the natural relationships that occur as a result of our habitats. Interaction with clients outside the therapeutic session and within the ethical standards is beneficial to clients (Gottlieb, 2013). Honesty is fundamental in the psychotherapy exercise, it only in honesty the client discovers his/her potential over the problem he or she is facing. It, therefore, necessary that client and the therapist exercise honesty during the therapeutic session. It is also essential that client accepts to honest with the self throughout the session. The aspect of honesty and maturity lacks in the sessions involving Paul and Sunil. It is demonstrated by the fact that Sunil doesn't want to be responsible for his decision and therefore uses Paul to achieve his ends. Similarly, Paul is not living his decision rather he is living the wishes of others. He fantasies on the illness that may be the avenue to get him out his situation. Paul is thus a clear illustration of unresolved experiences which has been carried forward to professional life. It is the primary task of a therapist to facilitate change hence important to deal with personal experiences apart from the clients. To be the desired agent o f change in the psychotherapy one must not live in self-deception (Bainbridge, 2013). Ethical dilemmas induce anxiety to counselors and therapist equally, yet little attention is given to the subject during formation period. The issue of ethics in the dual relationship, therefore, must be focused through adequate knowledge which facilitates the management of the boundaries. Principles such principle of autonomy, of fidelity, and of justice must be considered while evaluating the issue. Hence, a therapist needs appropriate prudence to deal with a case similar to the one discussed in the paper. It is vital for a therapist to strike a balance between the professional and the personal concerns during the relationship with a client. In addition, every counselor or a therapist must implement all the moral principles as well as the ethical codes to achieve the desired results in a therapy session. In instances where an ethical conflict persists and has affected the therapeutic process, it is then prudent for the therapist to refer the client to another therapist or terminate the client-therapist relationship (Breton, 2014). In conclusion, it is necessary for the therapist to formulate reasoned and realistic social, legal and ethical frame works within which the profession must be practiced and from which the client-therapist relationship, as well as other communal connections, are managed and monitored. It is further advisable that therapist discusses with their supervisors any conflicting ethical issues they encounter during the practice. At times the horns of the ethical dilemmas are sharp and hurting hence inflicting serious damage. Hence there is a need for counselors and therapist to discuss realistic answers to the prevailing ethical dilemmas (Bainbridge Yates, 2013). In addition, the role of supervision should be should be enhanced especially in the process of resolving an ethical dilemma. It should also be understood that both the therapist and the client may fail to maintain the desired ideals due to their human nature. Thus, the need to train therapist and counselors appropriately as well as appreciate that ethical dilemma is real and demand practical response more than a theory. Reference Bainbridge, C. (2012). Psychotherapy on the couch: Exploring the fantasies of In Treatment. Psychoanalysis, Culture Society, 17(2), 153-168. Bainbridge, C. (2013). In Treatment (2012). Began airing in the UK in 2009 as the. Television and Psychoanalysis: Psycho-Cultural Perspectives, 47. Bainbridge, C., Yates, C.(2013). Psychoanalysis and popular culture: reflections on the development of a psycho-cultural approach. 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