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
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Aristotle‚ Rousseau‚ Voltaire‚ Kant‚ Marx and Hegel etc. However‚ Kantian theory left meaningful arguments regarding to organization that is still acceptable and useful in managing business ethics. He developed the concept of moral philosophy as universal law‚ the level of relations of society in organization‚ the importance of duty and obligation by freedom and so on. So this paper will provide 1) the non-consequentialist approach to ethics regarding to Emmanuelle Kant’s theory for organization; 2) critical
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Risk Analysis (Pinto Case) Three social issues that are in this case are that one‚ social issue in this case was Ford claimed the reason for the recall of the 1.9 million Ford Pintos was not for safety but for “reputational” reasons. This is a social issue because‚ after all the evidence was piled up on their company for being unsafe and hazardous‚ they couldn’t just admit they made a mistake and recall the vehicles to make them safer. No‚ they had to use the reputation card to help their company’s
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1081209020 Li Hongke 1081209050 Lu Linlin 1081209031 Lu Yao 1081209043 March 2009 Abstract Excessive cash and undervalued stock price forced Ford to conceive an unprecedented cash payout system - Value Enhancement Plan in 2000. For a dual-stock-structure company‚ this recapitalization did favor much Ford family which held the dominant voting power by giving it larger flexibility‚ enhanced control with less capital as well as tax benefit and confidence improvement. While
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learning. So in this essay‚ an activity is designed for students and there are two learning theories that are used to apply into the activity. Those theories are the social learning theory and the operant conditioning. Examples would be used from the activity to explain how the theories fit into the design and process of facilitating children’s learning. In order to make clear application of the theories‚ the activity is need to be introduced in detail. The designed activity is focus on the music
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Pinto Fire Case Analysis Identify Decision Options Available to decision makers The affected Parties Ford Motor Company The Consumers purchasing the Ford Pinto The Decision Options Available 1.) The first decision available to Ford was to have taken Mr. Knudsen’s idea of foregoing the small car market and focus on the most profitable medium size cars market. This would have made it unnecessary for the company to shorten its regular production time‚ which resulted in cutting corners in the
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THE FORD CASE Executive Summary After carefully analyzing Ford’s existing supply chain I immediately became aware of its highly complex nature. This high level of complexity combined with other internal and external factors have pushed Ford to search for solutions in order to overcome the costly supply chain challenges that they are facing and may continue to face in the future. Ford’s major difficulty in their present system is: the inefficient control of
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The Ford Pinto Fires Case The Pinto fires case is about a series of accidents involving the Ford Pinto’s fuel tank bursting into flames if struck from the rear. A 1978 suit against Ford Motor Co. for the murder of 3 teenagers brought the incidents to the public attention as it was the first time a major corporation was charged in a criminal case beyond negligence (Trevino‚ 2011). Background The Ford Pinto was rushed to production by Lee Iacocca to directly compete in the small car market with countries
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Introduction Ford Motor Company is the second largest industrial corporation in the world‚ employing 370‚000 people in 200 countries across the world with revenue over $144 billion. The auto industry has become very competitive on a global level‚ forcing automobile companies to cut costs and stay competitive. In trying to remain competitive‚ Ford introduced a plan called Ford 2000. This was done to cut costs‚ streamline the organization and processes globally‚ and increase economies of scale
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KANT’S THEORY OF ORIGIN OF RACE The question of ‘race’ is a difficult one because everyone describe race from their own perspective. During the 18th century classification of types of human being are begin done. Kant was the first person who gave scientific classification of race. He established the difference between ‘varieties’ or ‘types’ and ‘races’. Kant further said that race is hereditary characteristic which is passed on to offspring while the characteristic of ‘varieties’ is not hereditary
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