Week 8 Final: Internal & External Factors of Organization

Week 8 Final
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Crisis occurs daily and globally. It is the key for leaders of an organization to study internal and external factors that may be responsible for the crisis situation. Other than this, it is important to look at organizational strategies that can be used to prevent crisis and to effectively and efficiently manage crisis that occurs. A strategic imperative is critical to understand the crisis situations and what caused them, how it happened, as well as how to strategically and tactically manage them and give recommendations of how to avoid further crisis and improve the current situations. With globalization and strategic moves for organizations and companies to be competitive, the management of an organization has to identify different ways of anticipating and preventing crisis and how to manage them. An organizations’ strength is seen in its ability to manage crisis and manage unexpected crisis situations.
Introduction
Close to 13,000 chemicals are used in cosmetics and of these only 10% have been evaluated for the manufacturing chemical products safety. Cosmetics can largely be brought into the market before undergoing any approval processes. The FDA regulates cosmetics, but they do not approve them. This then means that when a product has been seen as harmful and misbranded, then the FDA will act and take regulatory actions. Colour additives are the only cosmetic ingredients that require FDA premarket approval. Companies and manufactures are responsible for making sure that cosmetic and personal care products are safe for the customers. FDA regulations do not allow them to perform specific tests for safety demonstrations and companies do not require sharing any safety information with the FDA. This can have serious consequence to the public health (Mercola, 2016).
Johnson & Johnson
Johnson & Johnson is a renowned, trusted, baby friendly brand that produces a wide range of baby products and female hygiene items. The public trust has been failed yet again and this could have probably been contributed by cosmetics regulations that are lacking. A jury decided that Johnson & Johnson should pay up to $72 million for a consumer death that was related to the talcum powder that is in its products, yet despite this there are 1200 cases of the same and related to talcum powder still pending in the courts. A jury form St. Louis on October 2015, concluded that a patient by the name Fox, who had died due to ovarian cancer earlier, had her death caused by talcum powder. They accused Johnson & Johnson of negligence, failure to warn women and consumers of the product risks, and conspiracy (Mercola, 2016).
What happened?
Cases have been presented to Johnson & Johnson Company on the talcum risk on baby products but the company would not take note. Women that have been using baby powder for their personal hygiene are now diagnosed with ovarian cancer at all stages of cancer. Talc was first recognized as having cacogenic risks and this was communicated toJohnson & Johnson, but the product has still since been on the market. There have been several related deaths to talc in women.
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