Pinto Fires Case Study

After watching this video where Danny Gioia talks about his time at Ford and listening to these students pick his brain about his experience with the Pinto Fires scenario. Overall, after reading the case and Gioia’s personal memoir about his experience and how he grew, I felt strongly connected to his case. After writing my ethical dilemma paper, I found myself falling into scripting my unethical behavior and also not fully being aware of their ethical situation. I knew that something felt weird about my situation, but I did not explicitly acknowledge it as an ethical dilemma with multiple values in conflict. I understand how after working at Ford for a while, and falling into automated actions that
It was interesting him saying that he knows that he had a strong values system in the beginning of the video lecture and how he probes everyone in the room if they have one as well. Just because you have a strong or prominent values in your life, those values do not really matter if you do not acknowledge these values in conflict during a situation. I could value honesty and integrity, but if I was addressed with a situation that did not blatantly point out this value was clashing with a job, then I am missing the whole ethical decision making process. Danny Gioia states he has a strong value system, but he failed to fully
For instance, he remarked that he was not forced to make any of these decisions by Ford and he owned up to failing to recall the cars. However, he did acknowledge later on in the lecture that Ford’s culture and the time period back then did not value safety as much as we do today. He mentioned that in the office it was commonplace for them to following the saying, “build them to sell them, not to get them back” and that it would need to be very serious and to ultimately cost more money than to just recall