Management et direction II

Étude de cas Entreprises & gestion Management organisation

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06/05/2008

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Anglais

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Question 1
1. Strategy worksheet
2. To take into account
Question 2
Question 3
1. Situation
2. Main alternatives to cope with the situation
3. Strategy
Question 4

Résumé :

management and leadership II (titre original)

The chemist of the firm just discovered an unsuspected highly toxic effluent, issued from the production of a new chemical product, that the company dumps into the Mississippi and that the actual filtration system completely fails to filter out.

Main alternatives to cope with the situation:

Before finding a definitive solution, there are two options:
- Stop the production of the chemical product that generates the toxic effluent
- Keep on producing the chemical product that engenders the toxic effluent
(But because of the geographical location of the firm, there is a huge risk that some people die of poisoning. And then, authorities will open an inquiry and discover that the company is the source of the emission of the poison. As a consequence, the authorities and families of the victims will issue a writ against the firm that will probably be condemned to pay huge compensations and, in the same perspective, the management of the factory will perhaps be convicted.
Moreover, since this pollution is not just occasional but continuous (because it is the result of the production of a chemical product), it is not possible to set up an area of confinement.)

Possible solutions:
- Modify the production process in order to avoid generating the toxic by-product
- Implement a treatment process that will destroy the toxic molecules (e.g. cracking process)
- Dilute the toxic by-product (if it is present in proportions that are close to the standards of the WHO and of the Environmental Protection Agency) (But this process is illegal in several countries especially in France, even if some companies misbehave and use it.)
- Give up the production of the new chemical product and redeploy the operations of the company on its other markets.
The two first options (the modification of the process and the implementation of a treatment process) require investments: first in research and development (R&D) in order to find a viable solution (in term of technological and technical capacities as well as in term of profitability) and then because of the industrialization phase.