AHMED SULEMAN ID – 1033046 COURSE – PROFESSIONAL ETHICS CASE STUDY THE FORD PINTO Q1.What moral issues does the pinto case raise? The moral issues raised in Pinto case are that business should not put a value on human life and avoid known dangers. As ford thought they could get away with a dangerous automobile by paying off those lawsuits from people who were injured and the families of the dead. Ford thought it was more cost effective not to fix the
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Ford Pinto Fires Case Study and Executive Summary John Bonner‚ Scotti Greenleaf‚ Rose Scarbrough MGT216 University of Phoenix October 18‚ 2010 Sarah Nelson Ford Pinto Fires Case Study and Executive Summary Introduction During the Late 1960’s the Ford Motor Company was one of the leading auto manufactures in the United States. Ford was credited with revolutionizing the muscle car era of the 1950’s and 1960’s. During the mid 1960’s Lee Iacocca helped Ford establish itself in the late 1960’s
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content: Globalization Impact of the globalization Positive effects of the globalization • Increased Competition • Employment • Investment and Capital Flows • Foreign Trade • Spread of Technical Know-How • Spread of Culture • Spread of Education • Legal and Ethical Effects Negative impact of the globalization • Employment issues • Safety and security concerns • Environmental issues • Other negative effects What is
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What is Globalization? Globalization has become an overused expression. However; users of the term disagree violently at times of its repercussions. Many believed that it can potentially lift and that it has lifted a lot of individuals out of poverty completely. Does it entail the integration of cultural‚ political and economic systems around the globe? Does it entail that individual nations will not be capable to trade decisions or carry out business on their own but will have to consult other nations
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burn to death.” Mark Dowie‚ Author of Pinto Madness (8) One of the biggest automotive news stories in the latter part of the 1970’s dealt with tales of exploding Ford Pintos and the considerable awards civil court juries were presenting to victims of accidents involving the cars. Ford produced the Pinto automobile from 1971 to 1980. Initially the car sold well‚ but a defect in the early models made Pintos prone to leaking fuel and catching on fire after relatively low-speed‚ rear-end collisions
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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 time
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Utilitarianism and the Ford Pinto Case The Ford Motor Company manufactured a subcompact vehicle called the Ford Pinto during the years from 1970 to 1980. The Ford Pinto was advertised successfully to consumers and The Ford Motor Company was rewarded with sales for the Ford Pinto in the hundreds of thousands. Was the reward worth the cost? The Ford Motor Company knowingly engineered the Ford Pinto with a design flaw in the placement of the gas tank and a design flaw in the connection of the fuel
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Intensity of Ford Pinto Case Magnitude of the Consequences From the perspective of senior managers who made the decision‚ the magnitude of consequences introducing the Ford Pinto to the market is small. To support this point of view‚ Ford vice President firstly cited several statistical evidences. In 1975‚ only 12 of 848 deaths‚ which associated with passenger-car accidents in which fires also occurred‚ involved occupants of Pintos. And in 1976‚ the number of occupant fatalities in fire-associated passenger-car
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The Effects of Globalization in the Philippines As defined‚ the term globalization refers to the development of an increasingly integrated global economy marked especially by free trade‚ free flow of capital‚ and the tapping of cheaper foreign labor markets. Globalization has offered considerable controversial impact. It has been viewed as a process that is a key to the development of the world economy where effects are inevitable and irreversible. Some regard it with hostility‚ fear that increases
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Cultural Effects of Globalization Definition: According to “Cross Border Commerce” by Brian Satterlee‚ a nation’s culture consists of behaviors and characteristics that are unique to its citizens and globalization has had a great effect on globalized cultures. Summary: In the article‚ “Cultural Globalization” by Thana’a Haider‚ the author proceeds to recap the lecture given by Mr. Atif Al-Munir in Damascus‚ Syria. Mr. Al-Munir lectured on the effects of cultural globalization and indicated that
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