Organizational and Communication Behavior

Organizational and Communication Behavior

Velvet N. Johnson

COM 530 Communications for Accountants

June 22, 2010

Mark Durrand

Organizational and Communication Behavior Paper

Starbucks coffee is the largest coffee house company in the world. Starbucks has 17,133 stores in 50 countries, which includes 11,068 in the United States, 1,000 in Canada and over 800 in Japan. The coffeehouse is based in Seattle, Washington where the roaster and retailer of whole bean and ground coffee began its single store in 1971. Starbuck’s purpose was to provide a quite place for alone time, and meeting family, and friends. (plc, 2004) OK, what is the paper objective/ And, what is your hypothesis? Both are required here…

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The Starbucks philosophy is putting people before product makes good sense however, workers at Starbucks have a different viewpoint about how Starbucks treats its people. If workers join a union, he isthey are penalized, if he they supports the union, he is suspended and if a worker discusses union activities, he is fired.  < support for this? Starbucks is supposed to be a socially responsible employer, but the salaries they pay are close to the minimum wageswage .< expand, what makes this socially irresponsible? Its workers live below poverty line, and they are not provided health insurance and the workers are not guaranteed hours of work. < OK, what is the objective of the paper? What is your hypothesis?

Fair employment has been violated several times at Starbucks. It has exploited farmers and provided them with lower prices than what it should have. The milk, beverages, chocolate, ice cream and baked products sold in the company's stores are not free of animal growth hormone. This is against the philosophy of the company to have satisfied customers. < does not make sense…Consider the example of Starbucks; it claims it contributes to the community. How by giving public donations!