MGT600 Presentation: Management of Visy Food Plastics Company

This presentation analyzes the management strategies for Visy Food Plastics, a major Australian pet container manufacturer. It addresses ethical challenges, the creation of an ethical organizational culture, leveraging culture and diversity, and strategic people management. The presentation highlights Visy's commitment to ethical practices, including communication, protective mechanisms, and fair goals. It examines how Visy fosters innovation through initiatives like its return and earn policy, aiming to reduce plastic pollution. The presentation emphasizes the importance of work teams, feedback mechanisms, and the company's efforts to balance production with environmental concerns. It concludes that Visy maintains ethical standards by defining workplace policies and encouraging recycling, reflecting its commitment to sustainable practices within the plastic container industry.

MANAGEMENT, PEOPLE AND
TEAMS
Presentation on Visy Food
Plastic Company

Introduction
 The aim of this presentation is to develop a
management protocol for the Visy food plastics
company, into the future.
 Specific topics related to module 5 and 6 of The Course
work discussed under the broad topic, chosen here.
 Ethical challenges and relevant strategies related to
creation of an ethical organization, leveraging culture
and Diversity, attaining competitive advantage by
means of strategic management of people and lastly
fostering innovation are the primary aspects that could
be discussed under the scope of this presentation.
 The presentation would consider the most difficult
challenges faced, along with the personal vision and
most suitable strategic objectives and approach for
managing those strategies.

Organizational background
 Visy food plastics are one of the largest pet
container manufacturers of Australia.
 The company has produced more than 2
billion containers along with 1.5 billion pre
forms of plastics in the last financial year
(Woods, 2016).
 The company offers plastic bottle packaging
solutions to a range of industries including
beverage, Dairy, health and Pharmaceutical,
Industrial and chemical, salt Industries,
alcohol and household and so on.

Creating an ethical organization
 An organisation faces some basic challenges and should
adopt sometime and strategies in order to emerge as an
ethical organisation.
 So far as Visy Food Plastics are concerned, business
into production of plastic pet containers my face ethical
dilemmas as well as challenges, inside and outside the
organisation.
 The first stance the organisation needs to undertake in
order to establish their ethical culture is to become a role
model and be visible above others.
 In the course module we have acquired that the
employees or departments of the concerned
organisation should be looking up to an ideal footstep
which we can follow in order to establish their ethical
culture (Locock, 2017).
 In this case the organization, themselves, need to
establish their ideal footstep in the industry and market.

Creating an ethical organization
continued…
 Other important aspects required for
establishment of ethical culture in an
organisation are communication of of
ethical expectations former provision of
protective mechanism to employees,
removal of unrealistic or conflicting goals
and lastly visible rewarding of ethical
acts and punishment of unethical ones
(Smith, 2015).

Creating an ethical organization
continued…
 Nevertheless there are claims against the higher
management that their communication with the
lower tiers of the organizational hierarchy is weak.
 Nevertheless, protective mechanism is offered
adequately to the Employees when they are
trained regarding every aspect of handling
operations in the organisation.
 Besides, Visy has mathematically justified
segregation of what balls which prevents their
production goes from becoming an realistic and
non-achievable (Visy.com.au, 2019).

Leveraging culture and diversity
 In my course module I have acquired that
leveraging culture and diversity is Paramount for
success.
 Cultural diversity at workplaces refers to the
traditions, perceptions of behavior, experiences
as well as the values preserved by stakeholders
of various hierarchy level at the organization.
 Visy takes into account that the employees in the
different workgroups and departments are
nurtured with the same behaviour, traditions and
perception. This is why, they offer complementary
onboard training and learning sessions before the
employees are allowed to join the workgroups
after their selection (Visy.com.au, 2019).

Leveraging culture and diversity
Continued…
 From their end, the organisation only expects that
their employees understand the two most important
cultural aspects of the organisation which are:
 An organisation like them in the production
industry, it’s time poor and hence the employees
should do whatever it is needed to provide the
maximum output
 Since, there are longer leaders of plastic waste
production, all their stakeholders should exhibit
actions that resemble the industrial standards they
had set

Strategic people management
 There are various researchers who has conducted
primary surveys and observations into the working
procedure and employee management strategies of
this multinational plastic manufacturing company.
 The basic aspect of employee management at Visy
is that they prefer development of successful and
high performance work teams (Visy.com.au, 2019).
 Rather than the individual performance rate, they
required clear target and efficiency standard to be
maintained by the work groups in all their
departments.

Strategic people management
Continued…
 Continuous internal and external services are
conducted by the higher management in order to
gather feedback from the employees regarding
their personal data which includes their happiness
rate, contentment with the compensation rate for
satisfaction with the work culture in this company.
 The feedback gathering also involves employees
to provide their ideas regarding what can be done
to make the individual work as well as the
functioning of the group, better. (Gettler, 2007)
 The collected feedback is transform into statistical
data and Facts and plays a crucial role in
recognition of the success attained by the
organization, so far.

Fostering Innovation
 The organization, has undertaken various
strategic objectives in order to bring about
innovation in various aspects thereby
ensuring ethical standards in their
operations.
 The working policy of the organization
shows that they are aware of the damage
done by plastic to the environment and that
is why they are constantly striving for
reducing the impact of plastic pollution.

Fostering Innovation Continued…
 The organisation has also launched a return and
earns policy by means of which they can team up with
the customers and thereby reduce plastic pollution.
 This innovative strategy allows customers to contact
them for recycling their beverage containers.
 Customers can contact organizationto deliver a certain
number of empty by them.
 Against a certain number of of containers, the
customers have the opportunity of earning cash
rewards also (Visy.com.au, 2019).
 In the longer run, the strategy will help them in
replicating their business volume as well as
generating awareness against plastic containers also.