Case 2 4 final - Presentation Transcript 1. Case 2-4: Ethics and Airbus Team 8 Heather Cutshall Chris Duley Rohan Ratnapal Sue Vang 2. Consisted of French‚ German‚ and British Government Signed a Memorandum of Understanding in September 1967 Based in Blagnac‚ France History 3. An aircraft manufacturing subsidiary of the European aerospace company EADS One of the world’s leading manufacturers of commercial jet airliners
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1. In each of the cases who benefits and who suffers from the alleged ethical and legal lapses of Airbus? The case study shows that politics play a major role in ordering the aircrafts from the manufacturers. Kickbacks are encouraged not only by the politicians but the manufacturers as well. In the first case in Belgian where Sabena orders 17 Airbus planes and later increases the order to 34 which it did not need at all. It’s this move helped trigger airline’s collapse four years later its order
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CASE 24 Ethics and Airbus One September‚ a fraud squad‚ led by Jean-Claude Van Espen‚ a Belgian magistrate‚ raided Airbus’s headquarters in Toulouse. “They wanted to check whether there was possible falsification of documents‚ bribery or other infractions as part of the sale of Airbus aircraft to Sabena‚” says Van Espen’s spokesman. The team of 20 Belgian and French investigators interviewed several Airbus employees during its three-day stay in Toulouse and carted away boxes of documents. In November
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Introduction Background of Airbus Corporation Airbus began as a consortium of aerospace manufacturers. Consolidation of European defence and aerospace companies around the turn of the century allowed the establishment of a simplified joint stock company in 2001‚ owned by EADS (80%) and BAE Systems (20%). After a protracted sales process BAE sold its shareholding to EADS on 13 October 2006. Airbus employs around 57‚000 people at sixteen sites in four European Union countries: Germany‚ France‚ the
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CLASSIFICATION Impact on Impact on Impact on Impact on Effect on Category Impact on flight OPS line maintenance shop maintenance environment flight PAX comfort : : : : : : : Low Medium Medium None None Economic Low RELEVANT DOCUMENTATION Airbus OPS documentation Airbus Maintenance documentation Other documentation CONSEQUENCE : The valve failure can generate: - PACK REGUL FAULT ECAM Warning associated to Bypass valve fault message when BPV is faulty‚ - COND TRIM SYST FAULT Ecam Warning associated
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Structure and Process: 1. Organizational Structure: Airbus utilizes a vertical hierarchical configuration of departments‚ authority and job within the company. Refer to figure 9.1. Airbus organizational structure “aims to fully integrate the functions at Airbus‚ by implementing transnational organizations for industrial operations‚ programs and procurement” (Karp). According to the C.E.O he state that his structures objective is “to make Airbus a real ’architect and integrator’ in airliner development
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Group Research Project Sean Sullivan Glen Maguire Conor Reddington Contents Section 1: Background of the Organisation History-Airbus Products and Markets-Airbus Snapshot of current Operations-Airbus Future Prospects of Airbus Section 2 : Questions about Organisation –Airbus Section 3 : Bibliography Airbus history Airbus was formally agreed in 1967. Ministers from France‚ Germany‚ and Britain agreed “for the purpose of strengthening European co-operation
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Case Study: Airbus A3XX 1. Airbus considers building the A3XX a great opportunity to help the company enters VLA market‚ in order to increase competitive ability and make profits. There are three main perspectives to support this project: (1). A3XXX is the solution to meet increasing demand; As for increasing the according carrying capacity‚ Airbus believes that it is more realistic to develop “Very Large Aircraft” rather than to increase aircrafts frequency or to enlarge airport size. Industry
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2/7/2014 Airbus case study Airbus case study Introduction (Facts). Airbus is the company that deals with the manufacturing of aircrafts in the market. It was formally established in 1970 as a European consortium. It has a head office in Toulouse; France operates out of over 160 international locations. It include 16 main development and manufacturing sites in France‚ UK‚ Germany & Spain and three wholly owned subsidiaries in China‚ Japan and North America. The Airbus benefits from a
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55‚000 employees from over 80 different nations. This has however caused some issues within the organization also‚ as was the case in this case study. This particular case highlights the problems that arose within Airbus during the construction of it’s line of A380 Aircrafts where Airbus lost 2 Billion euros. Cross-cultural differences between French and German workers created an atmosphere of dis-trust amongst workers that can be relayed back to decisions made within management that could have
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