Balanced Scorecard The balanced scorecard (BSC) is a strategy used in organizations to determine their performance measures (Meredith & Shafer, 2016). The BSC provides knowledge into four perspectives of an organization; financial performance, customer performance, internal business process performance, and organizational learning and growth (Meredith & Shafer, 2016). There are many elements of the BSC, including the strategy map which displays the cause and effect relationships between the four perspectives to achieve a specific organizational goal (Meredith & Shafer, 2016). Along with implementing the usage of the BSC, Tyson Food will also be utilizing a strategy map.
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The major difficulty with formulating a balanced scorecard
The financial performance factors are the need to advance price-to-earnings ratio and the need to advance consumer base through the expansion into the global marketplace. Customer performance factors include recovering the company image by increasing organic business practices, advancing positive customer feedback, and implementing a home delivery service where it can be applied. Internal business process performance includes improving and increasing positive relationships with suppliers and farmers. Organizational learning and growth factors include providing larger advancement opportunities for employees and recovering the corporate culture with ethical farming and poultry handling. By implementing strategies with these factors in mind, Tyson Food will be able to achieve its goals.
The major organizational goal Tyson Food will focus on is exemplified in Appendix C, the strategy map. Fundamentally, Tyson Food will implement ethical and free range forms of farming in order to achieve the main goal of improving the company image. Through various strategies including implementing organic trends and researching ethical farming practices with farmers and suppliers the goal will be met. This is the result of implementing the BSC and the strategy map that
307). The implementation of the BSC can lead an organization to achieving goals that would not have been possible or even realized until the four perspectives have been analyzed. By researching the BSC and the factors within the company, Tyson Food has discovered they do not have the best reputation with customers for ethical poultry farming (Peta, 2016). Through that understanding, the company can set improving the company image as an attainable goal. In this, the BSC has given direct benefits to Tyson Food, Inc.
Biblical Integration The balanced scorecard is a strategy in which organizations can sort out their faults and weaknesses and work to make them stronger. God’s law demands sins to be confessed and forgiveness be requested in order to become stronger through Him. 1 John 1:9 states, “If we confess our sins, he is faithful and just and will forgive us our sins and purify us from all unrighteousness” (ESV). Just as the BSC is a strategy for organizations to grow stronger, God’s strategy of sinners confessing and requesting forgiveness is a way for Christians to become stronger.
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Tyson Foods has entered millions of homes in America and is seen as a convenient, healthy form of sustenance. This company portrays itself as a family company, that provides safe food for a growing world population; however, it is in fact contaminated and filled with deceit, deception, and fraudulence. Tyson vocalizes that it has the consumer’s best interest in mind, meanwhile its sole interest is its revenue. It manufactures second-rate chicken byproducts and disguises it as a healthy choice for families. It has been discovered that Tyson distributes contaminated foods, injects its products with antibiotics, and abuses its livestock; thus, society needs to prohibit such rancid foods from entering its homes and being fed to its children, and to put an end to the corrupt company’s empirical power.
Maintaining an ethical culture has been a struggle for the company for decades but when Hugh Grant took over as CEO, he the reformed the companies ethical culture. Before Grant, Monsanto was knowingly polluting a creek in Alabama with toxic waste, as a result, the polychlorinated biphenyls levels were outrageously high and many fish became deformed. The company had been doing this for forty years, “Once the cover-up was discovered, thousands of plaintiffs from the city filed a lawsuit against the company” (Ferrell, Fraedrich, & Ferrell, 2017, p. 383). Consequently, trust amongst stakeholders was broken, the companies stocks was impacted, dropping nearly by 50 percent. Grant worked to turn the company around and did just that by focusing on GM foods. “Today, Monsanto employs approxi- mately 22,000 people worldwide. It is recognized as one of the 100 best corporate citizens by Corporate Responsibility Magazine”. (Ferrell, Fraedrich, & Ferrell, 2017, p. 384) Despite all the legal battles the company has faced and ethical blunders, the company today now does maintain a better ethical
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