Ford Pinto Case Study
Assignment 4
From reading the two assigned papers discussing the Ford Pinto fires, it is easy for someone to judge Gioia’s decisions as fallible before all the factors are in place. For example, the culture of the Ford motor company at the time, Gioa’s mental state. I believe he feels very responsible and that is why he wrote the paper and uses it as a living case study in his MBA classes. From Hookers generalization test I believe Gioia’s decision not to recall the Ford Pinto would pass. The main reason I feel his decision would pass the generalization test is that almost everyone in his position with the knowledge he had at the time would have made the same decision. He describes using an algorithm to determine which cars to recall and which …show more content…
As he stated prior to taking the job at Ford he felt that big business had terrible ethics and he wanted to change it from the inside. However, once he continued to work at Ford he cut his hair and adopted the attitude and culture that was in place and Ford. He strayed from his integrity and thus his decision does not pass Hooker’s virtue test.
According to Rawls Difference principle: A policy must result in the greatest benefit for those who are least advantaged after the policy is generally adopted. In Gioia’s decision I believe this does not pass. The people least advantaged by his decision are the consumers of the Ford Pinto who are at danger of being killed or severally burnt. Gioia’s decision does not pass Rawls liberty principle because, by not putting the Ford Pinto on the recall list he was inadvertently putting the consumer at grave risk. From the stand point of the Ford company his decision would have passed the liberty principle because he followed an algorithm that kept the Ford Pinto off the recall list because of the lack of frequency of the issues.
After reading Gioia’s recount of what happened I agree with what he conveys in regards to his decision. Ultimately he said that his decision was legal and ethical given the information he had at the time but, he is unsure that it was
From reading the two assigned papers discussing the Ford Pinto fires, it is easy for someone to judge Gioia’s decisions as fallible before all the factors are in place. For example, the culture of the Ford motor company at the time, Gioa’s mental state. I believe he feels very responsible and that is why he wrote the paper and uses it as a living case study in his MBA classes. From Hookers generalization test I believe Gioia’s decision not to recall the Ford Pinto would pass. The main reason I feel his decision would pass the generalization test is that almost everyone in his position with the knowledge he had at the time would have made the same decision. He describes using an algorithm to determine which cars to recall and which …show more content…
As he stated prior to taking the job at Ford he felt that big business had terrible ethics and he wanted to change it from the inside. However, once he continued to work at Ford he cut his hair and adopted the attitude and culture that was in place and Ford. He strayed from his integrity and thus his decision does not pass Hooker’s virtue test.
According to Rawls Difference principle: A policy must result in the greatest benefit for those who are least advantaged after the policy is generally adopted. In Gioia’s decision I believe this does not pass. The people least advantaged by his decision are the consumers of the Ford Pinto who are at danger of being killed or severally burnt. Gioia’s decision does not pass Rawls liberty principle because, by not putting the Ford Pinto on the recall list he was inadvertently putting the consumer at grave risk. From the stand point of the Ford company his decision would have passed the liberty principle because he followed an algorithm that kept the Ford Pinto off the recall list because of the lack of frequency of the issues.
After reading Gioia’s recount of what happened I agree with what he conveys in regards to his decision. Ultimately he said that his decision was legal and ethical given the information he had at the time but, he is unsure that it was