or burned out vehicles. Daniel Boyce‚ author of The Ford Pinto Cade Information‚ cuts to the chase‚ “The Ford Pinto is known to be one of the most dangerous cars produced in automotive history due to several serious design flaws” (Boyce). This is a crucial statement that can affect the reputation of a company and have serious consequences financially. If it was my ultimate decision to either engage in a recall or to settle the cases in which injury occurred I would have to choose the decision
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Running head: Ford Pinto Case Study – Was Ford to Blame in the Pinto Case? Taking a Side Mayo Smith‚ George Deese‚ Josh Eubank‚ Mignon Waller‚ Michelle Stower and Jaime Arnold University of Phoenix Take a Side Bad business decisions can be seen throughout history; however none has stirred such controversy as the error made by Ford Motor Credit concerning the 1971 Ford Pinto. Despite many safety concerns Ford CEO‚ Lee Iacocca and Ford executives began the production and distribution
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Strategies for becoming Respected‚ Trusted and Admired Leader. By Dana Telford and Adrian Gostick . Clearly‚ Ford’s CEO Iacocca was an Egoist. People were definitely considered morally irrelevant in his decision-making framework. The Pinto safety issue was evaluated utilizing a Utilitarian framework motivated by the CEO’s Egoism. From a risk management standpoint‚ this may be the most dangerous combination in a decision-making. The Procedural steps of the decision making framework
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a new steeping stone on making compact cars. The creation of the Pinto helped Ford have a small compact car in which was a competitor for both the Germans and Japanese bringing in a new American vehicle to the American Market. Among the introduction to that there came in challenges and ethical issues in which the company had to face during this era of the Pinto. Analyze and Evaluate Alternatives The main problem of the Pinto fires was the fault on the fuel tank in which they had. It was a very
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business decisions. Ford Motor Company‚ Ford Pinto Case‚ is one of the most debatable utilitarian cases; when discussing business ethics. In this paper I will analyze Ford Motor Company’s decision making process related to the Ford Pinto; using the utilitarian analysis. Ford Motor Company‚ which is an American based company‚ were amongst the leaders of the automotive industry. Their American rivalries General Motors and Chrysler were already enough
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Ford Pinto Case Study The Ford pinto lasted from the 1960’s to the late 1970s and was highly controversial. This poorly made automobile came from a production race between the USA and Japan‚ where the United States promised an affordable‚ fuel efficient‚ and reliable car. Because of the hasty production‚ it left Ford with a flawed‚ dangerous‚ and untested product. The outrage over the obvious safety flaws of the Ford Pinto caused leaders to call upon their values‚ mission statement‚ and ethics
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this action is not intrinsically valuable as it acts for the good of the company. If this maxim of foregoing car safety in order to increase profit was applied universally‚ there would be obvious contradiction from the employees of Ford who drove a pinto and would not agree to this rule. This contradiction implies that the maxim to forego safety standards in the interest of profit is not morally valid‚ and Ford using this maxim to make the decision to not recall the cars is morally
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to be twelve years old. COuld’ve been anywhere from nine to fourteen‚ but as Frederick Douglass‚ that great man‚ said‚ you might as well ask a horse how old he is as a slave” (Stolz 3). This quote was said by Cezanne Pinto‚ the main character of the historical novel‚ Cezanne Pinto‚ about a young slave living on a plantation in Virginia with high hopes of freedom and an education. Originally born Deucy Clayburn‚ Cezanne spent his time as a slave working in the stables due to his gift with horses
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from not improving the Pinto gas tank had been passed on to force’s customers. We will say is morally wrong because Pinto do not meet the safety standard propose by the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration (NHTSA). The safety standard of NHTSA is to reduce fires from traffic collisions. This standard required that all new cars produced by 1972 should be able to withstand a rear-end impact of 20 mph without fuel lost and 30 mph when 1973. The result shows that Pinto had ruptured gas tanks
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EST 393- Project Management Instructor: Ed Palacio Eduardo.Palacio@stonybrook.edu Spring 2015 Required Text and Materials: Project Management: Achieving Competitive Advantage‚ 3rd Ed. by J. Pinto Prentice-Hall. Supplemental – not a requirement – Project Management Institute (PMI) – A guide to the Project Management Body of Knowledge (PMBOK Guide) – fifth edition Copyright © 2013 Pearson Education‚ Inc. Publishing as Prentice Hall Objective and Contents This course is designed to help
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