Ford Pinto

Commerce (COMM 101) Case 2.3 (The Ford Pinto) Week 4 1. What moral issues does the Pinto case raise? Moral issues that Ford Pinto case raises included producing dangerous products which are not safe to use it without informing the dangerous of the products to the public. In addition, lobbying the NHTSA to delay the safety measure of the products is also one of the moral issues that Ford Pinto case raises. (53 words) 2. Suppose Ford officials were asked to justify their

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

PINTO FIRES CASE The assumption that ‘it’s easy to be ethical’ assumes that individuals automatically know that they are facing an ethical dilemma and that they should simply choose to do the right thing. But decision makers may not always recognize that they are facing a moral issue. Rarely do decisions come with waving red flags. Dennis Gioia was recall coordinator at Ford Motor Company in the early 1970s when the company decided not to recall the Pinto despite dangerous fires that were

1. What moral issues does the Pinto case raise? The moral issues raised by Pinto case are the life of a man can be paid off with the money. Ford Company should not only concern about their benefits and disregard the human life. In order to perform cost-benefit analysis, all costs and benefits must be expressed in the common measure. This measure is typically in money, as Ford Company used it in its analysis. Ford Company believes that everyone has certain price in their life. Therefore, they believe

Case (The Ford Pinto) There was strong competition for Ford in the American small-car market from Volkswagen and several Japanese companies in the 1960’s. To fight the competition, Ford rushed its newest car the Pinto into production in much less time than is usually required to develop a car. The regular time to produce an automobile is 43 months but Ford took 25 months only (Satchi, L., 2005). Although Ford had access to a new design which would decrease the possibility of the Ford Pinto from exploding

The Ford Pinto Case Milton Friedman believed a free-market system, in which goods and services are exchanged and controlled by individuals and privately-owned businesses without government authority, was the only way to achieve personal freedom. Adam Smith, a 18th century philosopher and economist, held the belief that in a free society, the role of government should be limited to the protection of the people, the administration of justice through the court system, and the maintenance of all public

Immanuel Kant and The Ford Pinto Case Immanuel Kant¶s theory on morals states that ³nothing can possibly be conceived in the world, or even out of it, which can be called good, without qualification, except a good will.´ 1 Kant points to other human qualities such as courage, intelligence, wit and others that are ³undoubtedly good and desirable,´ 2 however, can become bad if the will of the person using them is not good. Kant maintains that in order for an action to be considered moral, it should

In 1968 Ford made a decision to compete in the small car segment in the United States with a new car, the Pinto. This segment was currently filled with foreign competitors, but a lead engineer, Lee Lacocca believed that Ford could make money in this segment. Lee Lacocca’s appetite to dominate the small car segment led to numerous ethical dilemmas that left Ford’s reputation in shambles. The decision to move forward with the Pinto forced their employees to face unreasonable timelines, a strict budget

behavior among engineers and protect the common interest of the Ontario community. At the end of this paper it will be evident that public welfare is paramount. This will be shown by how it ought to be enforced under the PEO, and how failure of the Ford Pinto was fueled by

CHEN 4090 Senior Seminar The Ford Pinto Case Naif Alotaibi Mohammed Alkhoraimi April 18, 2016 Cost Benefit Analysis The Cost benefit analysis is a financial model where companies or government establishments implement on their decision making. The model simply evaluates costs and benefits of a certain decision which enables the organization to choose the “right” option. (O’Farrell, R.,n.d.) The beauty of the CBA model lies in its simplicity, the chosen option