Essay On Liberty Mutual Began The Responsibility
This essay examines how ethical principles can be used to address organizational issues. It also address the role that external social pressures have in influencing organizational ethics, how these issues are relevant to organizational and personal decisions, and the relationship between legal and ethical issues as shown in the film.
The reason Liberty Mutual started The Responsibility Project was as it stated, “to explore what it means to do the right thing”. The film viewed was Dancing on a Dream. (http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/films/dancing-on-a-dream) Although this film did not specifically deal with an organization, I chose this one because the ethical principles really moved me.
Dancing on a Dream is about Michaela DePrince, an orphan from Sierra Leone that tells what her life was like before coming to the United States and fulfilling her dream as a dancer. In 1997, there was a civil war in Sierra Leone. Michaela’s dad was killed by rebels. Her mom did not know what to do. She gave Michaela all of the food, and as a result, her mother starved to death. Michael became an orphan at 3. At the orphanage, all of the children were ranked by favorite. From numbers 1-27. Michael was number 27. So she was always last to get any food or toys. Michael also had She had Vitiligo. The …show more content…
One example, although not ethical is that of Coca-Cola. Back in 1985 because of the fierce competition of Pepsi, the executives at Coke decided to change their soda formula and release a new coke replacing the original. Society went crazy. Coke received over 400,000 calls and letters of anger and disappointment. They started receiving 1,500 calls a day versus the normal 400. Even talk show hosts and comedians mocked the switch. At sporting events, Coke ads were booed. Within less than 3 months, Coke put back the original formula all because of pressure from
The reason Liberty Mutual started The Responsibility Project was as it stated, “to explore what it means to do the right thing”. The film viewed was Dancing on a Dream. (http://responsibility-project.libertymutual.com/films/dancing-on-a-dream) Although this film did not specifically deal with an organization, I chose this one because the ethical principles really moved me.
Dancing on a Dream is about Michaela DePrince, an orphan from Sierra Leone that tells what her life was like before coming to the United States and fulfilling her dream as a dancer. In 1997, there was a civil war in Sierra Leone. Michaela’s dad was killed by rebels. Her mom did not know what to do. She gave Michaela all of the food, and as a result, her mother starved to death. Michael became an orphan at 3. At the orphanage, all of the children were ranked by favorite. From numbers 1-27. Michael was number 27. So she was always last to get any food or toys. Michael also had She had Vitiligo. The …show more content…
One example, although not ethical is that of Coca-Cola. Back in 1985 because of the fierce competition of Pepsi, the executives at Coke decided to change their soda formula and release a new coke replacing the original. Society went crazy. Coke received over 400,000 calls and letters of anger and disappointment. They started receiving 1,500 calls a day versus the normal 400. Even talk show hosts and comedians mocked the switch. At sporting events, Coke ads were booed. Within less than 3 months, Coke put back the original formula all because of pressure from