Concepts
Crisis Management:
Crisis Management like a process which is helpful to tackle a sudden emergency situation in a business or other organization. In simple way we can say that this process is beneficial for the organization or its stakeholders because with this process they can deal with a disruptive and unexpected event that is harmful to the organization.
Code of Ethics:
A code of ethics is a guide of principles that is made for the help of organization or a business. This document like an outline of the business or organization which include all the values and missions of that organization or business like how they can approach problems.
Ethical Dilemma:
Ethical dilemma is like a decision-making problem between two important morals and out of those two morals which one is acceptable or preferable. This problem is arising out of the situational conflicts and in result one moral principle is obeyed by the organization or a business.
Quote:
“A recent survey revealed that more than 28 percent of reported crises spread internationally within an hour, and over two-thirds spread within the first twenty-four hours.”
Luttrell, Regina. Social Media How to Engage, Share, and Connect . London: Rowman & Littlefield, 2018. 137.
Prompt:
I am going to talk about the crises situation that is hacked Burger. The Burger King Twitter account was hacked in February 2013 and then the hackers changed its company’s name and gave it to McDonalds. After that they started offensive tweets and numerous questionable from this account. Within only starting 30 minutes of this attack, five thousand of new followers engage with the Burger King. Then they controlled their account and posted an apology on its Facebook page because they had increased their followers more than thirty thousand. For instance, this information was shared rapidly with public during this crisis but after all this they took proper steps to tackle this crisis And McDonalds tweeted in response to the apparent hack. This crisis has positive affect on Burger King. Firstly, the Burger King’s tweets promoted by this situation and their Twitter account. They gained at least 20,000 new followers from the situation that is beneficial for the Burger King because they got popularity from this crisis. Burger King did several things to do right away, they had a crisis response plan in placed that allowed them to not only act quickly but to quickly get help from the internet in solving the issue. Apart from this, they managed Twitter to suspend the account and pull down the content and ugly comments. people did believe on this news. at the end I would like to say that the Burger King took sufficient response to tackle this crisis because firstly they suspend the account and then they returned to active status and the account was back to normal and then they engaged with their new followers and got popularity.
