BP – The $40billion Safety Culture Vacuum On March 23rd 2005 a huge explosion at BP’s Texas oil refinery killed 15 people and injured more than 180. Most were its own staff. The refinery had suffered safety problems before. The previous year two workers died when scalded by super-heated water that escaped from a high-pressure pipe. The British media focused on the effect of the 2005 blast: the price of oil rose by several $s a barrel. In Texas‚ however‚ the local media were outraged by ‘yet
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Marketing: “Marketing is a total system of business activities that designed to plan‚ price‚ promote and distribute the products to present and potential consumers to achieve organizational goals through satisfying the needs or wants”. “A social and managerial process by which individuals and groups obtain what they need and want through creating and exchanging products and value with others”. The above definition for marketing is also called as Core Concept of Marketing. It can
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Introduction BP British Petroleum is a multinational oil and gas company headquartered in London‚ United Kingdom. According to revenues in 2011‚ they are the third largest energy company and fourth largest company in the world. Their main products include fuel for transportation‚ energy for heat and light‚ lubricants for engines‚ retail services and petrochemical products for everyday use. BP started as a subsidiary of the Anglo-Persian Oil Company in 1909 and through many stages it became British
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laboratories to clean up accidental acid and base spills on workbenches of flooring. But because of the exothermic nature of the neutralisation process‚ we should never use strong acids or bases in cleaning up spills as excess employment of these substances‚ where itself is caustic or corrosive in damage will cause further damage and evolve noxious fumes. When there is solution or concentrated acid has been accidentally spilled on the bench or floor‚ the spill area may need to be isolated and can be neutralized
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Monsanto had been around over 100 years its start of as chemical company and now it is in agricultural business. “From PCBs to Agent Orange to Roundup‚ we have many reasons to question the motives of this evil corporation that claims to be working to reduce environmental destruction and feed the world with its genetically engineered GMO food crops. And the article continued‚ “Monsanto was heavily involved during WWII in the creation of the first nuclear bomb for the Manhattan Project via its facilities
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10/12/2009 Student Name: | Niall Byrne | | Corporate Social Responsibility In A Recession | Table of contents Introduction 3 Brief overview of CSR......................................................................................................3 CSR is an unnecessary expense 3 Reasons for continuing CSR 5 What exactly does CSR improve about business Strategy 6 Is there a happy middle ground 8 Conclusion 9 Reference list:...................................
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Monsanto: Q1. Does Monsanto maintain an ethical culture than can effectively respond to various stakeholders? I believe Monsanto makes an effort to have an ethical culture and for the most part they succeed. The bribery issues in Indonesia‚ within their own company‚ in the late 1990’s/early 2000’s were reported to the Department of Justice by Monsanto. This level of corporate governance is something I think many large corporations would not do. The farmers‚ who are primary stakeholders because
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issue: What is the Social Responsibility of Business? Back up your argument with information from these 2 articles as well as using information from at least 2 other websites you have located. The support in your paper must be documented using in-text citations and a Works Cited page (MLA format). For proper documentation format‚ you may refer to these links as well as those found in the Webliography link under "Research/Documentation." What is the Social Responsibility of Business? After
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Case In the News: Bob Iger: Disney’s Fun King Beverly Rodriguez Keiser University Fort Lauderdale‚ FL July 6‚ 2014 Bob Iger became Walt Disney’s CEO in 2006. He faced several management challenges. First challenge: Restructuring the gigantic Disney Corporation‚ no longer able to manage it traditionally in the business sense. The next challenge had to do with what made Walt Disney what it is today‚ the leader in film animation. Yet another challenger Iger faced had to do with eliminating
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Petroleum (BP) has won acclaims and awards for CSR. But Swaminathan S Anklesaria Aiyar (Times of India‚ Bangalore edition 2010) argued in his article that BP has created the greatest environmental disaster in history which includes its out-of-control Macondo deep-sea well. Gulf of Mexico oil leak is another big historical issue. BP has created a huge image building campaign of ‘beyond petroleum’ critics say that BP has now spindling with ‘beyond problems’ (NJ Watson‚ Petroleum Economist‚ 2009). BP states
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