Team Case #2: Culture Change at Texaco By “The Moral Matadors” (team #6) Michael Breler | Chris Hollis | Matt Hoover | Laura Beth Martin | Chanda Pathak | Scott Stover PIPSCo CASE WRITE-UP Situational Facts • Texaco was sued for discriminating against African Americans • CEO Peter Bijur settled the case for $175 million ($140 to damages‚ $35 to independent task force) • The stock to fall $3 per share • Blatant racist language and behavior on the part of Texaco employees
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Ethics in Mangement PHL/323 Cultural Change at Texaco Introduction. Texaco was founded in the American South around the beginning of the 20th century. The oil and gas demands of the industrial revolution required energy providers and Texaco was an early pioneer of American oil drilling and refining services. The company’s profits grew and the company matured parallel to the automotive industry. Unfortunately‚ the company’s cultural values toward civil rights failed to evolve in step with the American
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Symptoms of Problems at Texaco Identification of Root Problems and Unresolved Issues Highly qualified African-American employees filed a class action suit against Texaco in 1994‚ stating that the company failed to promote African-American employees to a higher position and it failed to compensate them in relation to Caucasian employees in similar positions. Throughout the investigation of Texaco if was found that documents would potentially damage Texaco were being withheld. When secret tape
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Texaco Racial Discrimination Suit Legal Issue Texaco‚ one of the larges oil companies‚ recently faced to a discrimination lawsuit. In 1994‚ six African-American employees on behalf of 1500 other employees of Texaco filed suit asserting that Texaco engaged in illegal racial discrimination. They claimed they had not received equal employment opportunities. African – American employees also claimed that Texaco employers did not respect them as other white employees. Employers called minorities "orangutans
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stock holdings and executive stock options (Gilson‚ 1994). No employee issue has created as much media attention and more employee anguish than company downsizing. Popular press articles suggest that thriving corporations regularly reorganize their workplaces‚ leaving many people out of work even when their former employers face no imminent financial threat. Changing patterns are some of the reasons cited for job loss support this impression of the rising importance of streamlining operations. Differences
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RUNNING HEAD: Johnson and Johnson Case Study Action Plan Johnson and Johnson Case Study Action Plan PHL/323 Abstract This paper briefly summarizes the action plan case study of Johnson and Johnson. Seven people had died after ingesting Tylenol‚ a painkiller that was produce by McNeil Laboratories‚ a Johnson & Johnson division. The Tylenol was mix with cyanide poisoning. Johnson and Johnson realized that the tragic event was not the company’s fault but an external sabotage. In addition‚ Learning
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Action Plan for Change Walden University Action Plan For Change Excellence in mathematics education rests on equity—high expectations‚ respect‚ understanding‚ and strong support for all students. Policies‚ practices‚ attitudes‚ and beliefs related to mathematics teaching and learning must be assessed continually to ensure that all students have equal access to the resources with the greatest potential to promote learning. A culture of equity maximizes the learning potential of all students (NCTM
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WORKPLACE ETHICS AND ATTITUDINAL CHANGE Learning objectives At the end of the presentation‚ participants should be able to; - Understand what work ethics is all about and be able to classify decision as ethical or unethical. - Appreciates the categories of ethical questions - Analyses ethical reasoning based on the tools of ethics - Grasp some of the actions which may be breaching the boundary of ethical practices at workplaces. - Learn some of the ways ethics in the workplace
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Change and Culture Case Study I Darlinda Smith HCS/514 October 15‚ 2012 Steve Kovak‚ MHA Change and Culture Case Study I During the past decade the hospital industry has made profound organizational changes‚ including the extensive consolidation of hospital system through merger and the formation hospital systems (Evans & Gertler‚ 2012). The rules of health care are changing. Growth is not about just getting bigger. It is about developing all of the components needed for coordinated
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Action Plan Climate Action Plan Climate Green house gas Australia is an extremely dry continent. 60% of Australia is agricultural land but only 6% is cultivated. It is split up into 6 main climatic regions which are equatorial (region near the equator)‚ tropical‚ sub-tropical‚ desert‚ grassland‚ and temperate. The equatorial region is made up of rainforest and savannah and since it is near the equator typically experiences the hottest weather and a lot of rainfall. Because it has heavy
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