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Ford's pinto

Ford's pinto

Q 1. The ford Pinto met federal safety standards, yet it had a design flaw that resulted in serious injuries and deaths. Is simply meeting safety standards a sufficient product design goal of ethical companies?

Q 2. Gioia uses the notion of script schemas to help explain why he voted to not initiate a recall of the Ford Pinto. In your opinion, is this a justifiable explanation? 3. How can organizational context influence the decisions made by organizational members? 4. If you had been in Gioia’s position, what would you have done? Why?

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It can be stated that the safety regulations can be considered as the minimum requirement for becoming the ethical companies. The priority of these ethical companies should be the need for maintaining those minimum standards. In this way, the company can ensure that safety standards for everyone in the company are sufficient to become an ethical company (Weiss, 2014). Otherwise, there can be serious injuries or even death for the lack of such standards. However, there should be other precautions as well, such as engaging the employees to contrast the corporate ethics and to know the ethical principle.