Los Angeles Car Wash Business Marketing Case Study

Analysis of Los Angeles Car Wash Business
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Analysis of Los Angeles Car Wash Business
So many workers who work for car wash businesses in Los Angeles are highly and the most exploited. They operate and work in appalling work conditions with little wages and other times no payments altogether. Frequently, the owners of carwashes tend to flout all the health and safety rules, the labor laws and the environmental security or rather protection in the pursuit of making only profits. Therefore, their practices end up risking the lives of the customers, workers and the general public.
Despite the fact that revenue for carwash business in Los Angeles is high, it does not translate to any decent living for the people who work for those companies. The stipulated minimum wage in California should be $8 per hour. However, many carwash owners simply pay their workers below the legal minimum wage rate (Dahlsrud, 2008). Additionally, these employers will deny their employees the fundamental rights of a workplace and the necessary protection needed by the law. It can be very laborious and tedious to work in a carwash in Los Angeles especially during summer when the temperatures are too high in this county (Dahlsrud, 2008). This is because the employees are forced to work without wearing any safety equipment. Besides, they are denied access to training that teaches them on how to deal with chemical exposure and hazards in the place of work. Also, they do not drink clean water, and no breaks are provided for taking meals or even rest. The carwash owners do not provide overtime pay and health insurance. This makes the workers lose the businesses’ respect and dignity.
Ethics Approach
The issues morals face people each morning from all walks of life. We are always faced with questions of whether our foreign policy is just, the behaviors of the medical technologies which are meant to prolong our lives, are the homeless been accorded their rights and how teachers are fair to our children. According to the ethical approach, the first step of how to deal with moral issues is to analyze a moral issue and determine whether or not it is evident. This is done by getting facts. However, it is not enough to just have the facts since they only provide what the moral issue is but not what it can turn out to be. To fully comprehend how an ethical issue should be resolved, there calls for a focus on the values as well and philosophers have successfully developed several approaches to deal with moral issues. They include:
* The Rights Approach
* The Unitarian Approach
* Common-good method
* The Justice or Fairness Approach
The Virtue Approach.
It is important to note that this particular approach does not always provide automatic solutions to the issues at stake. However, it is intended to assist people to highlight some of the most significant ethical considerations. It is the duty of everyone to deliberate on ethical issues and at the same not to forget to keep an eye on the facts as well as all the ethical considerations involved. This approach encourages people to perceive themselves as individuals who come from the same community. The organization should work on having a clear picture of the society that they are looking for so as to ensure that they do not interfere with the freedom of individuals to realize their goals.
Stakeholder Management Perspective.
Currently, businesses are interested in protecting our environment and as a result, devote some money and resources targeted to enhance environmental management. When companies become part of the parties concerned about the environment will contribute substantially to ecologically sustainable developments. The problem arises when organizations
In order need to craft and establish the specific environmental strategies, many companies become skeptical about the other shareholders rather than the government controller. Therefore, this highlights the importance of using the stakeholder’s management perspective (Devinney, 2009). Most of the organization's proactive environmental approaches are related deeply with the parties concerned. The stakeholders approach usually defines the aspect of a stakeholder to add an individual or a group who can potentially affect the firm’s performance. There are various ways in which the stakeholder's management approach has been explored such as the agency theory, resource-based thinking, and the corporate social responsibility theory.
This method focuses on the active participation of the management to observe the interest of their stakeholders. The manager normally includes some environmental concerns into their corporate strategy past the requirements of the government so as to improve their alignment with the government's environmental issues and also to address and meet the expectations of its stakeholders (Devinney, 2009). The car wash business in Los Angeles should adopt corporate strategies, and imp...