Case #2: Culture Change at Texaco By “The Moral Matadors” (team #6) Michael Breler | Chris Hollis | Matt Hoover | Laura Beth Martin | Chanda Pathak | Scott Stover PIPSCo CASE WRITE-UP Situational Facts • Texaco was sued for discriminating against African Americans • CEO Peter Bijur settled the case for $175 million ($140 to damages‚ $35 to independent task force) • The stock to fall $3 per share • Blatant racist language and behavior on the part of Texaco employees
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Ethics in Mangement PHL/323 Cultural Change at Texaco Introduction. Texaco was founded in the American South around the beginning of the 20th century. The oil and gas demands of the industrial revolution required energy providers and Texaco was an early pioneer of American oil drilling and refining services. The company’s profits grew and the company matured parallel to the automotive industry. Unfortunately‚ the company’s cultural values toward civil rights failed to evolve in step with the American
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Texaco Racial Discrimination Suit Legal Issue Texaco‚ one of the larges oil companies‚ recently faced to a discrimination lawsuit. In 1994‚ six African-American employees on behalf of 1500 other employees of Texaco filed suit asserting that Texaco engaged in illegal racial discrimination. They claimed they had not received equal employment opportunities. African – American employees also claimed that Texaco employers did not respect them as other white employees. Employers called minorities "orangutans
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[pic] RESEARCH PAPER SUBMITTED BY: SISA‚ MARILYN VILLAFLORES‚ CYLLEN D. BFA AA 4 SUBMITTED TO: MRS. ARACELI JAYNE CANONIGO-CULIBRA‚ MMBM I. COMPANY PROFILE Chevron is one of the world’s largest integrated energy companies. Headquartered in San Ramon‚ Calif.‚ we conduct business worldwide. We are engaged in every aspect of the crude oil and natural gas industry‚ including exploration and production‚ manufacturing‚ marketing and transportation‚ chemicals manufacturing and sales‚ geothermal
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Symptoms of Problems at Texaco Identification of Root Problems and Unresolved Issues Highly qualified African-American employees filed a class action suit against Texaco in 1994‚ stating that the company failed to promote African-American employees to a higher position and it failed to compensate them in relation to Caucasian employees in similar positions. Throughout the investigation of Texaco if was found that documents would potentially damage Texaco were being withheld. When secret tape
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A Process for Changing Organizational Culture Kim Cameron Ross School of Business University of Michigan 701 Tappan Street Ann Arbor‚ Michigan 48109 734-615-5247 kim_cameron@umich.edu In Thomas G. Cummings (Ed.) Handbook of Organizational Development‚ (pages 429-445) Thousand Oaks‚ CA: Sage Publishing. A Process for Changing Organizational Culture Kim Cameron University of Michigan Much of the current scholarly literature argues
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The Change in Culture There are many factors that influence and facilitate change in cultures and socirties. Cultures rely on change in order to evolve their cultures and to expand there horizen and become a more succusful civilazation. Without it they would be the same underdeveloped civilization they were thousands of years ago‚ with no substantial future to look forward to. Factors such as agricultural development‚ techinques to fighting wars‚ the influence of music and
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technology change culture or culture change technology?« Diane Rehm radio show on Social Networks on the WebWhat ever happened to KQML? »Does technology change culture or culture change technology?Tim Finin‚ 1:00pm 10 July 2006 TweetI attended the CRA’s Snowbird Conference last month. The most interesting talk was a keynote from Genevieve Bell (also see here) who is an anthropologist who works at Intel Research. One of her messages was that while we tend to think that technology changes culture‚ it’s
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“When it comes to change management‚ what is the Culture and Sense Making? How do we learn and characterize Cultural Studies?” “Progress is impossible without change‚ and those who cannot change their minds cannot change anything.” (George Bernard Shaw) Change management is a systematic approach to dealing with change‚ both from the perspective of an organization and on the individual level. A somewhat ambiguous term‚ change management has at least three different aspects‚ including: adapting
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Describe whether or not it is difficult to change an organization’s culture. Support your response with materials from the course. Changing an organizations culture can be very difficult and challenging for any company. An organizational culture if is build on the founders values‚ the industry and business environment‚ the national culture and the senior leaders’ vision and behavior (Kreitner & Kinicki‚ 2013). It is best to research the start and history of the company. Then observe‚ analyze‚ and
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