SCANDAL IN SIEMENS (2006) In November 2006‚ Siemens company the Germany’s industrial giant had been involved in the largest bribery scandal that Germany had never experienced before. Managers used to secure abroad contracts by paying bribes to their clients. Is this an unethical behaviour or just a way to make profits for their company as they pretend that they didn’t make any personal gain? Is this behaviour could be considered as a sort of lobbying? What are the lessons Siemens had learned
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SIEMENS: 1. Identify four benefits to Siemens of its in-depth training and development of workers. Ans. Training refers to increasing the knowledge‚ skills and attitude of employees or extending those the employees already have. Siemens as the top three electrical and electronic companies has been running various effective training programs for their employees in order to build a strong work force and thus contribute better services to the society. In order to do that‚ they are providing their
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1) What explains the high level of corruption at Siemens was how it was legal at one point in time to offer bribes‚ but once the law changed‚ Siemens continued to do brides that was once legal but now illegal. Also‚ when the company continued bribery‚ Siemens transferred money into a hard-to-trace bank in Switzerland to protect their business and help them win contracts. Managers rationalized it as the bribes being useful money‚ but in a way they were still making profit‚ and bribes were used as
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of Global Business Professor Portillo BSAD 113W 18 February 2013 Assignment #3: Siemens Bribery Scandal Before 1999 the use of bribery in Germany was not illegal and could be deducted as a business expense in a company’s taxes. This allowed companies like Siemens to gain the upper hand and have an unfair advantage over their competition in acquiring business deals around the world. Then when the law changed‚ Siemens still utilized bribery‚ and employed bribery tactics in other countries where it
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13 Version 1.0 Year 2012 Type: Double Blind Peer Reviewed International Research Journal Publisher: Global Journals Inc. (USA) Online ISSN: 2249-4588 & Print ISSN: 0975-5853 Global Journal of Management and Business Research A Case Study of Siemens’ Violation of Business Ethics in Argentine Based On Stakeholder Theory By Zhu Wenzhong & Fu Limin Guangdong University of Foreign Studies (GDUFS) Abstract - Hand in hand with prosper of International business brought by globalization‚ many ethical
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following tasks: Task 1 Task 2 Task 3 & Task 4 Scenario Meeting global and local needs: A Siemens case study Siemens AG is a global electrical and electronics business with a turnover of £53 billion. The business employs over 450‚000 people. The company base is in Munich‚ Germany. From there‚ executives oversee work carried out in the name of Siemens all over the world. In the UK‚ Siemens plc has its headquarters in Bracknell‚ Berkshire and has more than 100 offices and factories. It employs
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www.thetimes100.co.uk Motivation within a creative environment Introduction Siemens is the engineering group that is behind many of the products and services people take for granted in their daily lives. The list of products designed and manufactured by Siemens is almost endless. It includes traffic lights‚ gas turbines‚ superconducting magnets in medical scanners‚ wind generators‚ automated factories as well as domestic appliances like kettles and fridges. It generates about 40% of the UK’s
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Slide1 : Siemens AG‚ a $73 billion electronics and electrical-engineering conglomerate. Siemens is well known for the technical brilliance of its engineers‚ but much of their knowledge was locked and unavailable to other employees. Facing the pressure to maximize the benefits of corporate membership of each business unit‚ Siemens AG needed to learn to leverage the knowledge and expertise of its 460‚000 employees worldwide. Slide 2: The roots of knowledge management at Siemens go back to 1996
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The case study of Siemens’simple structure－not Question 1 Based on the case’s description‚ Siemens has a long history. It means that it took for a long time to form the current structure. It is truly global company offering a portfolio of technological solutions in the areas of water‚ energy‚ environment‚ healthcare‚ productivity‚ mobility‚ safe and security. The changing is a big revolution which involves the many departments. The issue of departmentalization is a key consideration in any restructure
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platform their own content for their independence. Because if they depend on each other they can’t progress. 5.NBA’s partners are Coca-Cola‚ Adidas‚ Heineken‚ Pepsi‚ Pizza Guys‚ Toyota‚ Verizon‚ Mercedes-Benz‚ Walmart‚ Nokia Siemens Networks etc. For example‚ Nokia Siemens Networks can help NBA technically. The concept of a strategic ecosystem allows partners watching the matches in real
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