Commerce (COMM 101) Case 2.3 (The Ford Pinto) Week 4 1. What moral issues does the Pinto case raise? Moral issues that Ford Pinto case raises included producing dangerous products which are not safe to use it without informing the dangerous of the products to the public. In addition‚ lobbying the NHTSA to delay the safety measure of the products is also one of the moral issues that Ford Pinto case raises. (53 words) 2. Suppose Ford officials were asked to justify their
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Ethical dimensions of cost/benefit" analysis. Evaluate from a moral perspective the "cost/benefit" analysis conducted by Ford. One may ask what do we need ethics in business for? To answer this question‚ we need to know what ethics is‚ as well as‚ what impact it has on businesses‚ people and relations. Ethics is often defined as a set of rules‚ principles governing a group or a person; determining his/her behavior. It imposes a social responsibility on people. Even though‚ in the past ethics was
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Hi my name is Bryson Yelle‚ and I am on the affirmative side of this debate and I shall be explaining why human experimentation is ethical. Human experimentation Over the years has saved us‚ for example the polio vaccine. The polioVirus happened around the early 1940s to the late 1950s‚ and many of thousands were dying because of it until a man named Jonas salk started his human experimentation in 1952 and released it to the US in 1955. His experimentation killed at around 11 people‚ but saved thousands
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ABSTRACT Ford Motor Company have been around since 1903‚ and although in the past they lost market shares due to production and marketing scandals‚ they remain robust in 2005. This paper has been written to thoroughly analysed Ford through PESTEL analysis to comprehend the macro environment in‚ Porter’s Five Forces analysis to determine the competition and lastly SWOT analysis to depict the micro environmental factors of the company in question. It has been concluded that due to the fierce competition
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Humans perform perceptual categorization through the processes of visual recognition and attentional selection \cite{tva}. A perceptual categorization has the form ``$x$ belongs to $i$" (denoted by $ E(x‚i) $‚ $ E(x‚i) \in [0‚1] $ )‚ where $x$ is an input element in the visual field to be categorized (called \textit{perceptual units}) and $ i $ is a \textit{perceptual category}. The collection of all perceptual units is denoted by $ S $ and the collection of all categories is denoted by $ R $
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accumulated during expansionary periods. Over the next year the unemployment rate is expected to decline at a slow pace keeping consumer confidence low. In the short run‚ it is not likely that household spending will increase significantly. Industry Analysis The last several years were also tumultuous for the U.S. auto industry. After dominating the market for decades‚ American automakers had grown complacent about product development. At the same time‚ rising gas prices and uncertainty about the economy
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When companies accumulate costs‚ they generally use either a job order or a process costing system. The type of system used often varies based on the type of product or service provided. Examine your experiences with a current or former employer and a product or service provided by this employer. My former employer provided chiropractic care. Chiropractic is a health care profession that focuses on disorders of the musculoskeletal system and the nervous system‚ and the effects of these disorders
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problem. An organization lost 125 employees last year‚ at a cost of $5‚000.00 each. (Value is derived from cost to rehire and fill opening‚ as well as lost investment in the employee.) You suggest that a one-time investment in a training program (costing $250‚000 up front) will reduce turnover by 50%. Calculate the following numbers using historical figures as your assumptions. a. Total savings that the program stands to create Total Cost of the lost employee training= (125*$5000) =$625000 Total savings=
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Cost Benefit Analysis: New Orleans Sleeves Project Your Full Name Course Number and Name Professor’s Name University Name Date Cost Benefit Analysis: New Orleans Sleeves Project Decision environment often experience dynamics and swings which create short and long term effect on chances of survival for two alternatives to solve a problem. When faced with a decision dilemma that requires critical assessments‚ analysis resorts to analytical tools that ensure competitive positioning advantage
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Cost benefit analysis for the Long Engineering Company The Long Engineering Company (LEC) has decided to install a network system to help their technical support engineers (five of them who earn an average of $100‚000 each per year) to deliver better customer service including: mail out sales and other literature‚ answer phone calls for technical assistance and log and forward repair requests using an alpha-numeric paging system that will be part of the new network system. Currently all company
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