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 dangerous condition than to spend the money to save people. Q2. Suppose ford officials were asked
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Case Studies The Model T Ford Henry Ford did not invent the motor car – in fact he was a comparative latecomer to the scene. Although he had started producing cars back in 1903 he had little success until the Model T. The first production Model T was built on September 27th‚ 1908 in Detroit and production continued until 1927. The key contribution which he made was to change the approach to manufacture and marketing of cars. Prior to his activities cars had been a specialised luxury product available
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Socio-cultural .Where different social classes spend their time and money 1. Social classes in Australia. Societies are divided into different social classes. In Australia‚ 。。。 2. Where different social classes spend their money . Every family spent money on four ways: 1) visible products‚ 2) insurance‚ 3) entertainment‚ and 4) food. The individual’s consumption patterns can correctly signify family’s class position. The lower class spend the biggest percentage on basic living‚ to be more
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SOC 212: SEXUALITIES SPRING 2013 • T TH 12:30PM-1:45PM • 2LCC C003 Instructor: Ray Sin Teaching Assistant: Jessi Holzman Office: 4126C BSB Office: 4061 BSB Email: rsin2@uic.edu Email: jholzm2@uic.edu Office Hours: Mon 1pm-2pm Office Hours: Tues 2pm-3pm This syllabus outlines the content of this course and my expectations of you for the semester. This is a very important course resource‚ so please read through it carefully
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The Ford Pinto Question 1 What moral issues does the Pinto case raise? ANS: The Pinto case raise the moral issues of what is the dollar value of the human life. That the businesses should not be putting a value on human life and disregard a known deadly danger. In order to perform a risk/benefit analysis‚ all costs and benefits must be expressed in some common measure. This measure is typically in dollars‚ as the Ford Motor Company used in its analysis. This can prove difficult for things that
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TATA MOTORS Tata Motors Limited is an Indian multinational automotive corporation headquartered in Mumbai ‚ India. It is the eighteenth largest motor vehicle manufacturing company in the world by volume. Part of the Tata Group ‚ it was formerly known as TELCO (TATA Engineering and Locomotive Company). Its products include passenger cars‚ trucks‚ vans and coaches. Tata Motors is South Asia’s largest automobile company; it is the leader in commercial vehicles and among the top three in passenger
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Social environment of business means all the factors which affects business socially. Every business works in a society‚ so societies’ different factors like family‚ educational institutions and religion affects business. It includes the culture that the individual was educated or lives in‚ and the people with whom they interact. The cultural factors like buying and consumption habit of the people‚ customs and traditions ‚ tastes and preferences‚ languages etc are the factors that affect
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Mulally aimed to change the corporate culture at Ford. He aimed to bring about honesty and transparency in the company. He realised that the executives at the company did not function as team. Each was trying to protect his own turf. The company functioned as multiple separate units. Alan Mulally wanted to bring in transparency and honesty to the culture at Ford. He started weekly Business Process Review (BPR) meetings where senior executives of the company would make presentations of the condition
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and growth of the company over time (e.g.‚ critical incidents) General Motors (GM) was founded in 1908. William C. Durant brought together 25 independent car companies to form one large corporation. Each company held its own identity as GM operated as central administration office for the 25 divisions. Due to high cost in manufacturing of automobiles‚ GM was only able to target wealthy customers who could afford cars. Then Henry Ford‚ owner and founder of Ford Motor Company‚ revolutionizes the
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