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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 had Responsibility to Fix Pinto The Ford Pinto case study clearly presents an unethical and immoral practice that shows corporate greed for a positive bottom line is more important than the value of human life. Along with the issue of greed is the need to outdo the competition to be the best in the automobile industry. Together these issues cloud the judgment of Ford’s management. The use of cost-benefit analysis to determine if the flaw in Ford Pinto automobiles is worth the financial
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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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Ethical Issues The issue of ethical behavior is one of the top challenges facing organizations today. A good definition of ethics includes the thought of doing what is morally acceptable or what is “good” and “right” as opposed to doing what is “bad” or “wrong” (Sims‚ 1992). But why are these issues a concern for organizations? What can they do to promote ethical behavior from their employees? Organizations should be concerned with ethical behavior for many reasons. Even though ethical decisions
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Running head: FORD PINTO CASE STUDY Ford Pinto Case Study Shannon Arrighi‚ Brad Collins‚ Chasity Mobley‚ and Tom Tumminelli University of Phoenix Ford Pinto Case Study Shannon---Introduction Faced With The Ethical Dilemma In this ethical dilemma the team agrees it would have been handled differently. Within our group it seems that there would be different opinions of how it would have been handled. As an industry professional‚ ones moral obligation and responsibility of every employee
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Autonomy is the ethical principle that competent persons should be allowed self-determination unless proven otherwise incompetent. The decision to prove someone as incompetent is easily determined if the patient is unconscious or an infant (VHE‚ pg 107). But what if the ’child’ is 12 years old and has expressed wisdom beyond her years? As a society we determine that a persons below the age of 18 are lacking sufficient autonomy for a range of publically significant decisions unless proven otherwise
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of people‚ the media would blow up. However‚ there are still unresolved issues of racism today (such as the recent police cruelty and the United Airlines case)--because the Tuskegee case was an issue of racism as much as it was of an ethical one--so there is a possibility of something like this happening again. Not to mention people’s curiosity is endless as well as their cruelty. - Much of the regulatory apparatus and ethical guidelines surrounding informed consent and medical research on human
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Case AnalysisAngela RosadoProfessional & Ethical Issues in Forensic PsychOctober 15‚ 2014Mary McGreevyCase Analysis “In Vignette 3‚ an inmate is incarcerated due to a history of violent behavior(s). While in prison the inmate was known as being a “model prisoner”. Now that the inmate is scheduled for a parole hearing‚ the warden believes the inmate possesses the propensity to commit a violent crime if released‚ and “requests that a psychologists/psychiatrist evaluate the inmate using psychological
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Introduction to Business Ethical Issues in a Business Workplace. At large corporate restaurants‚ where at any given moment may have more than thirty five employees working together‚ fulfilling many different job positions‚ while utilizing only a few supervisors‚ it’s common that the responsibilities or faults that are present in the company are passed on from person to person without any ownership of the issue at hand‚ let alone a solution. Within the five years I have been employed by a large
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