Ford Pinto Case: The Invisible Corporate Human Pricetag In this essay‚ I will argue that Ford Motor Company’s business behavior was unethical as demonstrated in the Ford Pinto Case. Ford did not reveal all the facts to consumers about a harmful gas tank design in the Ford Pinto. They tried to justify their decision to sell an unsafe car by using a Cost-Benefit Analysis which determined it was cheaper to sell the cars without changing to a safer gas tank. The price of not fixing the gas tanks
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Running Head: ENGINEERING Engineering Issues and the Ford Pinto Major Walker‚ III Troy University The Ford Pinto was first introduced to the North American market in 1970. The Pinto was introduced primarily to compete in the small car market with where Volkswagen dominated. The way the Ford Pinto was designed tragically left rear-ends accidents up in flames. This is because the gas tank was positioned in between
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An example of the Ford Pinto scandal‚ where organizational leaders mad bad decisions are related to the Ford Pinto catching fire when involved in a rear-end crash where a defect in design or manufacturing could lead to death or serious bodily harm. Ford had access to a new design which would decrease the possibility of the Ford Pinto from exploding‚ the company chose not to implement the design‚ which would have cost $11 per car‚ even though it had done an analysis showing that the new design would
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Immanuel Kant would have would have certainly believed that Ford acted wrongly by not upgrading the integrity of the Pinto’s fuel system after learning about the danger of explosions in low-speed rear end collisions. Kantian deontology asserts that “nothing can possibly be conceived in the world‚ or even out of it‚ which can be called good‚ without qualification‚ except a good will.” (Kant 1). Although some human qualities are intrinsically valuable‚ or good for their own sake‚ Kant believes that
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Background This report discusses about the invention of ford pinto in a short period of time and the consequences it had in the life of many people. It discuss about the individual and organization involved in the incidents. It also discuss that even though the people were aware about the situation‚ they had no reaction or concern towards it. Introduction Ford pinto was invented by ford motor company during the late 1970 to capture the entire American subcompact market and put down an alternative
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October 17‚ 2012 Case: The Ford Pinto I believe that the cars should have been recalled when Lee Iacocca; president of Ford‚ learned that ruptured fuel tanks resulted from‚ “Stray sparks easily igniting any spilling gasoline and engulf the car in flame.” This case is about Ford Motor Company trying to compete foreign subcompact cars; Volkswagaons. Ford produced a new car to compete called the Ford Pinto. The normal production time is almost four years‚ but the production for the Pinto took half that
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(H) Why is my supervisor Mr. Christopher Cox and director Major Javier Trevino has taken this situation to such a great length to accuse me of telling a story when they know I didn’t? (It seem as if they have fusing deceitful and negative documentations on me to try to fire me). (I) Are they trying to build up fraudulent and negative documentation on me to Fire me unlawfully? (J) Why would a true small misunderstanding of only four hours be charged for five-day suspension? (This seem to be
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The Revised Trevino & Nelson 8-step model PREPARATION 1. Get the Facts. Watch your ladder of inference: a) something happens; b) we observe and then pick & choose among these events of what to evaluate or draw a conclusion about‚ or make a judgment‚ or tell a story about; c) the story we tell ourselves drives an emotion; which in turn leads us to d) choose an action to take. Can you separate fact from story? Emotions? Facts are observables that can be corroborated by multiple observers
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’s‚ the Ford Pinto was one of Ford Motor ’s best-selling cars‚ helping to strengthen Ford ’s market position within the industry. The Pinto was introduced to the market in September 1970 and dubbed by Ford as the "carefree little American car" (Davidson‚ p 3). The Pinto was Ford ’s answer to imported subcompact autos‚ which held 18.4% of the market‚ a market that had not yet been entered into by domestic auto manufacturers (Davidson‚ p. 3). The design and development process of the Pinto began in
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Assignment 3: Case 8.9 Ford and Its Pinto and GM and its Mallibu: The repeating exploding gas tank problem. 1. Calculate the total cost of all the fixes for the pinto gas tank problem has been performed. Design changes that could have been done by Ford include Side and cross members at $2.40 and $1.80 per car respectively‚ a shock-absorbent “flak suit” to protect the tank at $4; a tank within a tank and placement of the tank over the axle at $5.08 to $5.79; a nylon bladder within the tank at $5
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