Business Ethics: Shell
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Introduction
We chose to analyze the company Shell Global (Multinational), which had operations running all over the globe and even now, with the financial drawbacks, is still growing. Shell Global started business back in 1833 and has gone through a lot of hardships but also many golden periods, of which many will be mentioned in this report as some of them concern ethical issues.
In 1958 Nigeria became one of the largest oil producers for the Shell Group, where Shell has been accused of many human rights violations especially in the Niger Delta area. Their corporate and ethical image was heavily damaged and they soon realized they needed to regain the confidence of society to remain successful compared to their (more ethical) competitors. In this period, Shell produced their first Corporate Social Responsibility reports (1998) and started paying actual attention to human rights and of course which of them they violated. Asking questions such as: What can we do to change? The CSR report included parts about their business principles and how Shell’s statement of General Business Principles is going to be implemented.
Though a ‘clean up’ has started in Ogoni, an area in Nigeria, the problem remains because, it takes up to 30 years for the nature of that place to fully recover of the damage, according to the UN reports. What happens in this area is that the people do not have access to clean drinking water, now the communities drink water which includes Carcinogens (a substance, radionuclide, or radiation that is directly involved in causing cancer). Even so, oil spillage is the biggest problem for Shell Global in Nigeria since they are the largest and most well-known company in the country and there for getting all the blame.
Shell Global consists of energy and petrochemical companies, and has over 93.000 employees spread over 90 different countries. This makes Shell one of the biggest companies in their line of business, but
Introduction
We chose to analyze the company Shell Global (Multinational), which had operations running all over the globe and even now, with the financial drawbacks, is still growing. Shell Global started business back in 1833 and has gone through a lot of hardships but also many golden periods, of which many will be mentioned in this report as some of them concern ethical issues.
In 1958 Nigeria became one of the largest oil producers for the Shell Group, where Shell has been accused of many human rights violations especially in the Niger Delta area. Their corporate and ethical image was heavily damaged and they soon realized they needed to regain the confidence of society to remain successful compared to their (more ethical) competitors. In this period, Shell produced their first Corporate Social Responsibility reports (1998) and started paying actual attention to human rights and of course which of them they violated. Asking questions such as: What can we do to change? The CSR report included parts about their business principles and how Shell’s statement of General Business Principles is going to be implemented.
Though a ‘clean up’ has started in Ogoni, an area in Nigeria, the problem remains because, it takes up to 30 years for the nature of that place to fully recover of the damage, according to the UN reports. What happens in this area is that the people do not have access to clean drinking water, now the communities drink water which includes Carcinogens (a substance, radionuclide, or radiation that is directly involved in causing cancer). Even so, oil spillage is the biggest problem for Shell Global in Nigeria since they are the largest and most well-known company in the country and there for getting all the blame.
Shell Global consists of energy and petrochemical companies, and has over 93.000 employees spread over 90 different countries. This makes Shell one of the biggest companies in their line of business, but
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