Ford Pinto -- Case Analysis
On August 10, 1978 a group composed of three young women, two were eighteen and one was sixteen, were the subject of a rear end automobile accident by another vehicle while driving in a 1973 Ford Pinto (Epstein, 1980). Th Continue Reading...
Unfortunately, many companies and industries have not learned from the mistakes of the Ford company; as this is an issue that continues to happen with a number of large companies. A prime example of an industry that continues to use a cost benefit a Continue Reading...
Business Ethics and Positive Social Change: The Ford Pinto Fiasco
How much is a human life worth? Most people would likely agree that human lives are priceless, but the executives at Ford Motor Company made this type of grisly calculation when they w Continue Reading...
Product Liability Claims: Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company
What is the official citation?
Grimshaw v. Ford Motor Company, 9th Circuit, 849.F.2d 460 (1968).
Facts
On August 10, 1978, three teenage girls driving a 1973 Ford Pinto sedan stopped to ref Continue Reading...
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6. Describe the needs present in Maslow's hierarchy. How can organizations attempt to meet these needs so that e Continue Reading...
Individual Automobile Safety Technology
Engineering Ethics
The overarching contribution of the automobile industry to the United States economy is considerable. Approximately 1.067 million intermediate job are engaged in the direct support of the i Continue Reading...
Capitalism does force us sometimes to make decisions in a context narrower than we need in order to make them morally, socially, environmentally (Rolston, 1988, p. 324).
Rolston points to several cases of corporate myopia that was changed as custom Continue Reading...
6. Maslow's hierarchy of needs
Abraham Maslow constructed a pyramid of five levels, each level presenting the types of needs that motivate people. At the bottom level sit the physiological needs, followed by needs of safety, needs of loving, being Continue Reading...