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Manny Hodzic BUS 101 D Case Study 2/16/2016

Disney Stakeholder Analysis The stakeholders in this Disney case consist of the owners, employees, the immigrants, and the stockholders. Employers of Disney are seriously impacted by this the most as their jobs are in danger as they realize how financially focused Disney has become. The immigrants are effected because they could either be gaining job opportunities or losing them. The stockholders and owners have a similar share because they are directly affected by the profits that are coming from these decisions. The Disney Corporation has been filed a lawsuit against because of their recent decisions with their workers. They laid off nearly 250 technology workers and most of them kept their hopes up that one day they could get another job with Disney. One of the laid off workers, Leo Perrero, even trained an immigrant from India right before he was laid off just to find out that despite his extremely high performance ranking he was not going to get another job. Disney is being accused of purposely having Americans train immigrants from around the world so that they can hire the immigrants. This would mean that the corporation would no longer need the American workers. People believe that Disney is doing this to save some money. They were finding these immigrant workers through HCL and Cognizant. These global organizations sent Disney immigrants with H-1B visas allowing them to stay with a job. Disney took advantage of this knowing that immigrants wanted any job they could get. By hiring these immigrants Disney probably believes that their image is improving as they are offering job opportunities for those in need.

Realistically, Disney is hiring these immigrants after they are trained because they are much cheaper labor. Why pay American citizens more to do the same job that an Indian immigrant would do for half as much. This issue became clear recently and the American citizens became angered because they believe that they need a job just as much as the immigrants. Dena Moore, a former worker for Disney for 10 years, was laid off and replaced by the immigrant she was training as well. She states that she is in her 50’s and its not easy to join another corporation that late in the game. She lost her job to a nonAmerican citizen just to save money. This is what truly ignited her passion to file this lawsuit against Disney. The possible solutions for Disney right now include sitting down and reevaluating the amount of people they are laying off and the reason for it. They need to realize that it’s not all about the financial aspect. Having workers who you can trust and they can trust you builds a strong corporation. Disney should rehire the workers they laid off and give them a different job position at least. They deserve to still be a part of the company if they put so much hard work into it and they were successful. Getting rid of the immigrant workers does not need to be a necessity, maybe they can assign them intern positions or smaller job occupations because its not fair that they take over big roles as soon as they join while people who have been working there for 10 years are getting fired. This would satisfy the immigrants, current employers, and even though it would mean less of a profit for the owners it will take care of the lawsuits that can potentially lose a lot of business for Disney. Looking at Disney’s decision from a financial standpoint it makes sense. Disney was solely focusing on what would make them more profit. Many organizations go

through this process several times. The simple question that is asked in this situation is “Why should we pay someone more when we can save that money and pay someone else less to do the same job?” Both the immigrants and the previous American workers are getting the same job done. So looking at this from a strictly profitable and financial point of view, Disney is making a smart decision as the owners are making more of a profit. Once viewers begin to look at Disney’s decision from a ethical perspective they begin to notice how unethical this whole lawsuit truly is. Disney is exclusively focused on making more money and not giving any thought about their workers. Disney is constantly laying off hard working American citizens just to save money by finding cheaper labor. They are ignoring the fact that all of the people they are laying off are being impacted drastically. Most of the laid off workers were willing to apply for any position in the Disney corporation so they still have some sort of income coming in and Disney still did not budge. They cared much more about the money rather then the fact that they may be ruining several people’s lives. Mrs. Moore states this in the newsletter: “But they are just doing things to save a buck, and it’s making Americans poor”. Disney is avoiding the huge economic problems going on in America as they are giving away jobs to immigrants from other countries....