World’s leading aerospace company, largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined...Boeing. Founded in 1916, by William Boeing in Seattle, Washington, Boeing has grown to be top company profiting $86 billion in 2013, ranking the company as the twenty-sixth on the “Fortune 500” list. I chose this prestige company because I have a major interest in aerospace and spacecrafts. I also have the aspiration, in the future, to work for a company like this as an aerospace engineer or pilot. Today, Boeing’s headquarter is in Chicago, Illinois and the CEO is W. James McNerney, Jr. and this company prides itself on having one of the most diverse, talented, and innovative workforce worldwide. Boeing employs more than 170,000 people throughout the United States and in 70 countries, and having a code of ethnics is their foundation for their growing business.
Assessing the Federal Sentencing Guidelines for the Boeing company I initially see they adhere to the first Guideline, of having clear standards and procedures for their employees. Then begin with seven values: leadership, integrity, quality, customer satisfaction, people working together, a diverse and involved team, good corporate citizenship, and enhancing shareholder value; and give a brief summary. Then following the values is the Boeing Code of Conduct for all employees to have fair, impartial, ethical, and proper manner and still comply with laws and regulations. Following the Code of Conduct is detailed standards from environment to government, to export/import compliances. I personally respect their integrity value because they personally take responsibility for their actions, and with the Code of Conduct they are determined to restrict the possibility...
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... or the idea of a woman work only a specific stay at home job. The ethics companies command themselves to achieve today shows the steps we fortify to guarantee the justice, pride, and individuality of employees are met and exceeded. I also found the detailed booklet for Boeing to be immensely helpful, and if it is true that every employee receives this booklet and stands true to it, then the workforce there must have high standards, making it a company I desire to work for. Another major topic that the Guidelines do not converge with is the environment, however, Boeing addresses the safety, health, and environment protection they approach daily, not only for the employees, but the world.
Works Cited
7 Values: http://www.boeing.com/boeing/careers/culture/index.page?
Booklet: http://www.boeing.com/assets/pdf/companyoffices/aboutus/ethics/ethics_booklet.pdf
Lowe’s begins their manual with an Introduction that includes employees’ and Board of Directors’ together. Lowe’s feels employees’ are equal and expects their executives to follow the same rules of conduct. Lowe’s includes ethics and code of conduct together as a framework of principles’ to guide employees’ in their day-to-day conduct. (Lowe's Internal, 2010)
By proactively addressing ethical issues with a code of conduct, Raiders Inc. can set the standard regarding how they want employees to behave. Employee can be trained on the company code of ethics so they understand how their company expects them to respond. They can also train them on the biases of decision making, to make sure they are aware of the pitfalls that exist. (Robbins & Coulter, 2012)
As one of the world’s largest airline, United Airlines employs over 80,000 people and transports over 143 million people a year ("United Airlines newsroom," 2017). These staggering numbers equate to billions of interactions between the public and United Airlines employees and subsidiaries. It is understandable that a company with such a large public audience and employee base would have a code of ethics statement to help its employees so that they can make decisions that are in line with company expectations.
The author felt that Boeing is plagued by bad company norms. Previous CEOs were people with low ethical sensitivity who had not been leading by example. Stonecipher committed an ethical lapse by having a relationship with an employee while Philip and Stonecipher travelled in luxurious business jet with personal handlers. Subconsciously, they were conveying a message across the company: Boeing tolerates ethical lapse; power and privileges are entitlements for higher ranking staff. McNerney agrees that bureaucracy has given higher ranking staff too much autonomy such that breaching ethical codes can be overlooked since little or none in the company can penalize them.
The Boeing Company originally started out as the Pacific Aero Products Co., which was founded on July 15, 1916. The name was changed about a year later to The Boeing Airplane Company. The Boeing Company stayed relatively small until World War I when they were selected by Navy officials to produce an order for 50 model C's planes for the war efforts. The company continued to prosper and by the late 1950s, Boeing President William Allen knew that the company had the scientists, the experience and the facilities to lead the company into uncharted territories. He was right, Boeing has emerged as the leading aerospace company in the world today.
The Boeing Corporation is one of the largest manufacturers in the world. Rivaled only by European giant Airbus in the aerospace industry, Boeing is a leader in research, design and manufacture of commercial jet airliners, for commercial, industrial and military customers. Despite enjoying immense success in its market and dominating an industry that solely recognizes engineering excellence, it is crucial for Boeing to ensure continued growth through consistent strategy formulation and execution to avoid falling behind in market share to close and coming rivals.
United Airlines is one of the largest airlines in the United States and worldwide. Also, it is ranked as the oldest commercial airline that was founded by Walter Varney. United Airlines started as an Air Mail Service and then extended its services to be an Air Carrier. In 1927, William Boeing started his own airline, Boeing Air Transport, and started buying any other air mail companies, which included the Varney’s Air Mail Company. After a while, Boeing started manufacturing aircraft and parts, which allowed him to extend his company to a bigger organization. Also, within Boeing’s company, he bought several airports to expand his organization. In 1929, Boeing’s company has changed its name to be United Aircraft and Transport Corp. (UATC).
Over the last 50 years, The Boeing Company has shown itself to be an industry leader in the fields of technology and putting their vast physical assets to use. Boeing has been at the forefront of innovation in both commercial aviation, and airplanes used for defense purposes. Whether it was the introduction of the first modern airplane with dual engines when the Boeing 247 was unveiled or introducing new standards of efficiency into their business model, Boeing seems to have always been one step above the competitors. So while Boeing was hurting their competitors on one end, they decided to go and become more efficient on the other end. So not only were they the leader in technological innovation, they improved the productivity of their largest business unit all while decreasing the amount of space they used.
In Module 1, Kindred Todd faced quite a few ethical dilemmas that included her values and technical ineptness. The first predicament was tested her personal morals and ethics. According to, Cumming and Worley, OD practitioners are dealing more and more with value conflicts with powerful outside groups (Cummings & Worley, 2008). Kindred was immediately faced with the issue of knowing what was ethically correct but being told the unethical approach was the best in order to benefit the client and her job security. Although compromising is one of the many skills of organization developers there are still morals that should be followed on each assignment. Kindred, know that deceiving the clients was unethical, took the first step to working on behalf of the client and immediately involved her superior, Larry, to resolve a potential conflict In the project. While her actions went in vain when she told her boss to remove her from the project and provide the client with a more qualified resource, Kindred did what she thought to be the best approach.
The issue for the company Boeing had arose in 2002. This was when it’s CEO named Philip Condit led Boeings issue. The company Boeing in 1997 acquired its competitor McDonnell Douglas, which was also an aircraft manufacturer and shortly after when they combined the two firms Boeing faced problems and took a $2.6 billion dollar loss to the business and was in a lawsuit from angry shareholders. The angry shareholders stated that Boeing had covered its true financial conditions therefore in February 2002 the lawsuit was settles for $92 million dollars.
(Masters, 2007). Boeing's management team works hard to plan what projects will be best for customers, lead to the largest returns to shareholders, and maintain a reputation of being a world leader in the aviation industry. " In October 2002, executives of the aircraft manufacturer met with a group of global airline representatives at a conference center on the Seattle waterfront. The executives were trying desperately to figure out what to build next to hold off a soaring Airbus. "
Ethics in the Workplace "Ethics are personal and, at the same time, a very public display of your attitudes and beliefs. It is because of ethical beliefs that we humans may act differently in different situations" (University of Phoenix, 2007). Poor ethical choices in the workplace can truly hurt people. Poor ethics can damage their career, happiness, and quality of life. Not only can these actions hurt the individual who has made the bad choices, but also most often it hurts the innocent.
A company's code of ethics is very important to establishing the expectations and quality of its brand. The code of ethics are concrete expectations for employee behavior, accountability and communicates the ethical policy of a company to its partners and clients. A good business practice is to have sound ethics. Having good ethical practice is knowing the difference between right and wrong and choosing what the right thing is. Though good ethical behavior is something that should be done automatically, a company needs to have a set of rules in place that holds everyone accountable. Over the last twenty years, the country has been bombarded with company scandals and unethical behavior; though morally wrong, the punishment does not fit the crime. The punishments have been overkill. A murderer, rapist, or child molester commits violent crimes and potentially is out of jail in 10 - 20 years. The CEO’s that commit white collar crime receive 25 years to life; this paper will discuss how this punishment for committing nonviolent crimes, such as breaching a company’s code of ethics, are disproportionate to violent crimes that plague the country today.
Ethics is the responsibility of each individual person, but starts with the CEO and the Board of Directors, setting the right tone at the top and moves down through the organization, including setting the tone in the middle. A company’s culture and ethic standards start at the top, not from the bottom. Employees will almost always behave in the manner that they think management expects them, and it is foolish for management to pretend otherwise (Scudder). One of the CEO’s most important jobs is to create, foster, and communicate the culture of the organization. Wrongdoings or improper behavior rarely occurs in a void, leaders typically know when someone is compromising the company
Ethics in the workplace is a very important thing to have. Without a sense of ethicality in the workplace there are many things that could go wrong. You could even end up losing a job because of a lack of ethics, or other consequences could be felt due to a lack of caring or morality. The workplace is a place that you should show respect and dignity, and a deeper sense of ethics is very important in order to uphold these senses of morality. Workplace ethics, which include such things as behavior, integrity, commitment, teamwork, and other things, are important, if not required, in most workplaces and can help to improve performance and morale for workers and employers.