Governance, Ethics, and Sustainability in the Australian Food Industry

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Governance, Ethics and Sustainability

Table of Contents
Introduction................................................................................................................................3
Vision.....................................................................................................................................4
Perseverance...........................................................................................................................4
Discrimination........................................................................................................................5
Anticipations......................................................................................................................5
Exploitation............................................................................................................................5
Corruption..............................................................................................................................6
Dishonest and Fraudulent Behaviour.....................................................................................6
Whistle-blower protections....................................................................................................7
Fortification of the whistle-blowers...................................................................................8
Enforcement...........................................................................................................................8
Conclusion..................................................................................................................................9
References................................................................................................................................10

Introduction
The food industry plays vital role in the formation of any of the county’s structure. This
report will discuss about the food industry of Australia and will also discuss about those
factors which needs to be take in the consideration while dealing with the necessities of
customers. In the formal report their will be the discussion about code of conduct of
Australia. Country is currently fairly focused to manage their principals and ethics related to
the food industry. The report makes concise discussion about the different factors which
consist in the retail industry like corruption, discrimination, corruption and so on. To
accomplish more effective information one of the recent news article will also be discussed.
This will help to gather more relevant information about the ethical code of conduct of retail
industry. There will be the discussion about those negative factors which needs to be resolved
by the time.

Vision
The franchise colossal Retail Food Group had breached the code of conduct as the
organization had mislead two Michel’s Patisserie franchisees which lead to the case of court.
Case had taken time to be resolved but at the end Retail Food Group founded as the culprit
and become third consecutive breached of Australian consumer law. Former franchisees
Frederick and Karen Guirguis made compliant regarding the issues of related to the
productivity of organization. all of these negative allegations made huge negative impact on
the franchise as well as retail market of Australia (Smartcompany.com, 2019). This specific
incident made concerns over different issues and braches of the country. That become
necessary to analyse different factors to provide good and effective services to respective
customers.
Perseverance
This is necessary for all the authorities to understand and keep an eye on the ethical code of
conducts of food industry. These laws had meant to secure the business and safety of the food
industry (Goodman and Sage, 2016). There is some sort of laws which are helpful to the
retailers to preserve the ethics and build balance between productivity and ethics.
 The Act for discrimination, and fairness, helps to make the well-organized and
valuable decision.
 Necessary to determine the internal performance of different retail organization
attaining the ethics in food industry.
 There is some sort of acts which showcase the culprit strict and harden punishment
which helps to reduce the probability of breach.

Discrimination
The food industry is one of the most crucial industry and deals with needs and of different
type of people. This is necessary for the organizations to have balanced and equal workplace
culture. The industry can grow if the employees will work together to attain effective and
valued responses. The reduced discrimination will provide more values and efficient
formation of workforces (Lewis and Huber, 2015). This is necessary for different retail
establishments to make balance in the internal structure of organization.
Anticipations
 Necessary to analyse that not any of the employee will be valued or addressed
according to their colour or religion.
 The case of aggravation had never observed in the organization.
 Have to make some policies which helps the employees to freely speak about any of
the negative influence having in the organization.
 Needs to accomplish the balanced and one and the same behaviour of the internal
structure of organization.
This could be responsibility of higher authority to make the determination of these laws
necessary in the organization. This is also necessary for the organization to make some strict
rules regarding the breach of laws (Thyberg and Tonjes, 2016). The major advantage of
equality is that it helps to attain the professional and balanced culture of the organization.
Exploitation
This is one of the major concern of the current retail industry of Australia. That has been
observed that different employees are facing the issues of exploitation. This issue is
negatively impacting their performance and becoming the reason of breach of code of
conduct. Exploitation refers to affecting the mental and physical emotions of the employees
in negative manner. Some of the cases of exploitation includes abusing language, work more
than the limits and so on. All these are some of the factors which makes the employees
unsatisfactory to work with the organization (Carey, et. al., 2016). This becomes the major
responsibility of higher authorities of retail industry to make some strict rules to resolve such
conflicts. This issue needs to be resolved as this is affecting the performance and growth of
the entire industry. Some of the follows of employees have been discussed below:
 This is necessary for the employees to use professional communication while
communicating to any of the department or staff member.

 Gender equity needs to be formulated in the organization and haver to build
professionalism in the premises.
 Any of the negative or illegal conspiracy needs to be strictly prohibited in the
organization.
 This is necessary to make some sort of austere actions to critically follow all of these
steps (Friel, et. al., 2014).
Corruption
The retail food industry not only worked for the productivity and services. Apart from that
the industry serves their services and honesty to their customers. This is majorly necessary to
have the employees and organization which are corruption free in the retail industry.
Corruption indicates towards any kind of dishonesty or illegal task done by any of the
employee or organization. This can affect the reputation of organization in negative manner
and affect the market also in decreased manner (Ferrell and Fraedrich, 2015). The
government authority of Australia made some strict laws regarding the breach of such
approaches.
This is already discussed that the Retail Food Group had breached some laws and necessities
related to the productivity. One of the mistake made by some of employees had negatively
affected the reputation and customer base of entire organization. This is necessary to make
the industry honest and corruption free but first this is necessary to make the employees
understand about actual needs and requirements of the organization. This is the responsibility
of higher authority to provide some sort of training and development sections to their
employees which will help them to determine and understand the values of retail industry.
Moreover, this is also necessary to make the employees understand about the negative impact
of breaching such code of conducts. This is the major responsibility of senior authority to
make all the regulations clear to the employees. But the employees also need to follow those
laws in significant manner (Kalfagianni, 2014). This is high time to have some strict and hard
laws to be critically followed by the Australian retail industry. This is not only necessary for
the growth of industry but also consideration of the values of normal human beings.
Dishonest and Fraudulent Behaviour
The retail industry requires the formation of proper and effective professionalism at the
workplace. This is necessary to determine different type of dishonest or fraudulent activities
in the internal structure of organization. These are some of the essential factors or influences

which increase the probability of negative activities in the organization (Quarshie, et. al.,
2016). On the other hand, this is the responsibility of employees to understand the values and
necessities of code of conduct. As if the employees will understand the right value of
professionalism the factor of conflicts will be reduced.
This is accepted from the employees to obey their work as well as staff members. They also
need to maintain the professionalism and ethics in the organization. this will help to
determine the objectives in more appropriate manner. Each of the organization attain some
sort of confidential information which is illegal to be discussed with the third party
candidates (Brunori, et. al., 2016). This is one of the major responsibility of employees to
consider the rules in strict manner and do not breach any of the law.
This is necessary for the employees to give equal respect and concern to different employees
and departments of the organizational as this is necessary to build the valued structure in the
organization The tasks which have been given to the employees are their responsibilities and
needs to be completed by the given time. This is required from employees to not misuse the
values and position which they attain in the organization. this could be one of the major
negative influence affected by the employees (Barclay and Miller, 2018). These are some of
the requirements of professionalism which needs to be attain by the employees.
Whistle-blower protections
The retail industry of Australia focuses to deliver the values and ethics to their customers.
This could be understanding that there is different type of laws had initiated by the different
organizations. This helps to make the balanced and valued formation of legal factors of
ethical code of conducts (Dabic, et. al., 2016). The major values and power of retail industry
includes the support and balanced culture of different employees and supporters to formulate
the required objectives.
The whistle blowers make an analysis over the different factors and legislations which needs
to be followed by the Australian retail industry. The analysis majorly focuses on any of the
unethical or fraudulent cause which have been caused by the employees. Afterwards, any of
the negative activities makes to be reported and strict action would also be taken against the
culprit. This is one of the advantage of whistle blower that the information and data of the
report takes under the strict consideration (Mourad, 2016). This is not possible to leak the
information. There is some sort of codes which needs to be followed and have discussed
below:

 Different type of illegal activities like intimidation, shoplifting or harassment at the
workplace.
 Any sort of misuse of company assets or resources. It could be related to the health
influences or damage to the physical property of the organization.
 Security of the financial causes and values of the organization.
 Any sort of involvement or participation in the breach of values of organization or
industry.
 Insubordinately damaging the polices and regulations of the organization to make
negative impact on the performance in the current market.
 Participation is any of the illegal or unethical activity help in the organization.
 Any sort of insolvent in any of the acclivity relates to corruption or dishonesty.
Fortification of the whistle-blowers
The concept of whistle bowler is to helps to store and define the values and adapt in
significant manner. Thus, it becomes necessary to protect the data from irrelevant fraudulent.
This is necessary to protect the personal and confidential details. This is necessary to protect
and value the data and records and strictly prohibited the attaining of data by the irrelevant
manner (Iakovou, et. al., 2014). This laws includes the protection regarding any sort of
unnecessary activities. There would be strict rules and regulation be followed to protect the
confidentiality.
Enforcement
This is the main objective of any of the organization of retail industry to provide good and
effective productivity to their customers. The enforcement laws are some of the regulations
which helps to build the entire structure of organization balanced. These laws help the
employees to understand about the values of actual professionalism. This could be
understanding that the employees can effectively work if they own will to work accordingly.
This law not only showcase the negative impact of breaches apart from that makes the
employees determined about the values of positive aspect (Sidiropoulos, 2014). Different
enforcement laws help the employees to enhance their standard of working.
Some of the legislation of this low includes the values to ethics and financial states of the
organization. This approach also helps to concern towards the values of the customers. This
will also help to reduce negative influences of the competition. As the increased employment
will increase the performance of organization and reduce the competition.

Conclusion
This is concluded from that report that the retail food industry needs to follow the ethics and
code of conducts of building the performance of entire country. There was the discussion
about different laws and values which can help to build the balance in workplace. The report
had discussed about one of the incident of ethical code of conduct breaches in Australia.
There was also the discussion about some factors which needs to be considered like
corruption, Enforcement and so on. Thus, the precise study of report made detailed analysis
over the different factors which needs to be concerned.

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