Final Project

Group 8: Linh Nguyen, Junrong Zeng, Isaac Arreola

Part 5 Submission

Baskin Robbins’ Public Administration

Identify local, state, national or international laws or policies that will impact organizational operations including any:

· Environmental regulatory issues: The California Environmental Quality Act (CEQA) (Public Resources Code sections 21000 et seq.) is the California analog to NEPA.

· Planning and Zoning issues: The California Planning and Zoning Law with government code section 65000-66037 enacted in 2009

· Employee compensation requirements and labor laws: The Fair Labor Standard Act (FLSA), it’s a United States labor law that creates the right to a minimum wage, and “time-and-a-half” overtime pay when people work over 40 hours a week.

· Licensing or permit requirements: A General California city business license is required in California to run a business

· Impact of any international laws or protocols: none

Community Engagement Plan：

· Identify community organizations that may impact the organization：The community organization that is capable in impacting the organization are the unions, the churches the health care organizations, social services groups or the clubs. This is with the reason that they are normally those types of the organizations which are advocacy-oriented thus applying into the community-organizing strategies in order to make sure that goals that were set are achieved.

· Identify government entities that will impact organizational activities：The government entities which can impact the activities of the organizations are; Diversions of some of the small proportions of the budgets, unleashing of the talents, collaborations with the outsiders so that help can be gained towards gaining or taking down the issues that may bring impacts to the organization.

· Identify local demographics and how they may impact the organization：The demographics can be the source for the impact of the organization through its socioeconomic or its cultural variables that are normally used in being independent variables. They are the traits which can be used incase they do not or if they have the need towards impacting on to the organization the change or the impacts can be acknowledged with the organization.

· Identify local, state and national organizations recommended to be joined or supported：The local, state or the national organizations that are normally recommended towards being joined and supported can be the multicultural associations, all levels of the government, the state and local government and the federal government.

Identify issues of Ethics or Corporate Social Responsibility that could impact organizational operations：

· Impact of product or service or employment plan：Baskin Robins products have a great effect on the environment. Many of their different ice creams are made in local areas so that is beneficial to the environment but everything else the stores has negatively affected the environment. Their shops consume huge amounts of electricity due to the need to keep multiple different freezers running as well as the constant air conditioning they use as well as lighting. The company also creates great deals of waste that are harmful to the environment. The plastics they use in their spoons, cups, packaging, and decorations around the store create great amounts of pollution due to them not being recyclable. Also, when the stores have different promotions then they cause even more trash like when they have toys or stickers displaying new limited-time flavors.

· Diversity Management Plan：The company is greatly invested in making sure that they keep their workforce, franchisee, and suppliers diverse. They try to pick as many local suppliers as possible to help their environmental impact on the world as well as to support local businesses. The company does go out of its way to make sure that all their workers are paid equally and have made plagued to keep this behavior up.

· Social Equity issues, particularly those related to race or gender：The company also has numerous resources for employees to increase their cultural awareness as well as opportunities for career improvement. When making franchisee’s they work with the NAACP (National Association for the Advancement of Colored People) to put out information about franchising opportunities for people of color. The company also makes it known how long they have been working with this organization as well. The company has also put out a statement in their opposition to racism, hatred, and injustice, in the wake of the Gorge Floyd incident.

References

(12), M. (n.d.). Baskin Robbins. Retrieved October 26, 2020, from https://isshinternational.org/6569/uncategorized/baskin-robbins/

Diversity & Inclusion. (n.d.). Retrieved October 26, 2020, from https://www.dunkinbrands.com/company/careers/diversity-inclusion

https://calepa.ca.gov/wp-content/uploads/sites/6/2016/10/CUPA-Documents-Inspection-OvrviwEnvlaw.pdf

https://opr.ca.gov/docs/complete_pzd_2011.pdf

https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Fair_Labor_Standards_Act_of_1938

https://www.lemberglaw.com/overtime-pay-unpaid-wages-baskin-robbins-lawyers-attorneys/