There are three exploratory oil rigs that have been drilling under contract for several years along the Angola coast. Each oil rig owned by a United States drilling company. The case study focuses on a small oil rig called the “Explorer IV” housing 180 staff, 30 of these being American expatriate workers or “Expat”, and the top administrator in authority regarding life on the rig is an Expat himself. The purpose of the oil rig’s purpose is for drilling oil and to house all of the staff drilling and operating the rig. The rig is approximately 200 feet by 100 feet so cramped and tight living spaces is to be expected. However, there is a difference in living quarters, quality of food, medical care, and means of transportation between the Angolan’s …show more content…
Distributive justice is concerned with equality in treatments, benefits, burdens, and individual rights. The concept is to treat people equally and fairly. In order for this to be applied in any scenario, even “The Oil Rig” case, individual factors must be examined and addressed accordingly. From the perspective of those living within the oil rig, the difference in living qualities and treatment or acceptable and no one is raising any flags about unequal treatment or injustice. From an outsider’s perspective, the treatment of the Angolan workers is unethical and unjustifiable. The principles of being treated equally and fairly are not met in this case and their living conditions need to be reexamined and addressed to meet the requirements of distributive justice. As an outsider, I do understand the cultural differences and that the Angolan government was accepting of the living conditions in that they signed a contract with the oil company. Despite my understanding and knowing of their being a lack of complaint from the Angolan’s side, I highly recommend a reexamination of their conditions. No matter what are the cultural differences, there should never be unequal treatment and all should be treated as the same and
The author believes the maldistribution of any punishment is not relevant to its justice – The guilty are punished, not one’s race, economic, or social status.
The political instability inherent in emerging economies make for very challenging business environments. In late October 1995, Royal Dutch Shell founds itself in just such a tenuous environment in Niger. As Paine and Moldoveanu (2009) outlined,Shell came under scrutiny in the 1990’s for the environmental impact that they were having on the Niger Delta. Shell was accused of creating an “ecological disaster” on the region, caused by oil spills, emissions from flaring of natural gas, and drainage of contaminated water into the waterways (Paine & Moldoveanu, 2009). Adding to the operating complexity, the Nigerian government and its leader faced escalating international condemnation for the actions of a special military tribunal
The oil sands have encouraged massive economic growth in Alberta. The province had suffered an economic recession however the oil sands helped produce huge profits and provide thousands of jobs. Due to the oil sands Canada has became the top top supplier of oil to the United States and this has helped strength economic ties between both countries. Over 121,500 people were employed in the oil sands in 2012.The goods, materials, and services used to construct and operate in oil sands projects, come from across Canada. For example financial services in Ontario, engineering firms in British Columbia, and steel mills in Saskatchewan. The tar sand employs 112,000 people outside the province of Alberta. It is expected that in the next few years there
Theories of global distributive justice address the following sorts of questions. Should we feel morally concerned about the large gap between the developing countries and the developed countries? What duty do us citizens have to provide assistance to the global poor? And what scale should we take the duties to?
In recent years companies have been suffering a loss of legitimacy and confidence caused by a growing social awareness about their irresponsible behavior related to social injustice and damage to the environment. In this context, the case of the oil company Shell allows us to have an overview of the complexity of this type of situations. In the 90 ' Shell was involved in two major problems that has caused serious tensions between the company and its stakeholders because of the removal of the Brent Spar oil platform and problems in Nigeria. The relevant stakeholders involved in this case were consumers, investors and specially the local community that were affected with pollution caused by the company operation.
Justice claim-making argue how things ought to be. The first type of justice claim-making is distributive and there are three dimensions of distributive which are, vulnerability, need, and responsibility. The concepts of distributive justice are significant to environmental justice claim-making. The second type is procedural justice, where procedures and decisions are being made whenever there is an act of participation in decision-making for a fair process. The last type is justice as recognition, it is often social categorizations as to who is respected and valued or recognized and who is
The Deepwater Horizon Oil Spill was the largest and most catastrophic scandal of the company to this day. Not only was it the largest scandal for BP, but it is also ranked the number two largest oil spill recorded in history. An astonishing 210 million gallons of oil spread 2,500 to 68,000 square miles in the Gulf of Mexico. It all started when BP contracted out to Transocean to drill for oil in the Gulf of Mexico. BP chose a spot that was supposed to be rich in oil and was rushing on a deadline and budget that they needed to meet. It is due to BP’s lack of risk analysis, following procedures, and cutting corners that 11 people were killed and 17 more were injured.
On April 20, 2010, the Deepwater Horizon oil rig, located in the Gulf of Mexico exploded killing 11 workers and injuring 17. The oil rig sank a day-and-a-half later. The spill was referred to as the Deepwater Horizon oil spill, BP oil spill, Gulf of Mexico oil spill, and BP oil disaster. It was first said that little oil had actually leaked into the ocean but a little over a month later the estimate was 12,000-19,000 barrels of crude oil being leaked per day. Many attempts were made to stop the leak but all failed until they capped the leak on July 15, 2010, and on September 19 the federal government declared the well “effectively dead.” In the three months that it took to finally put a stop the leak, 4.9 million barrels of oil were released into the ocean. The spill caused considerable damage to marine and wildlife habitats and the Gulf’s fishing and tourism industries. The White House energy advisor, Carol Browner, goes as far to say that the Deepwater oil spill is the “worst environmental disaster the US has faced.”
When applying the Van Soest model, “distributive justice is looking at the contract involving what society owes the person” (Van Soest, 2003). According to Van Soest (2003), “distributive justice has particular relevance for the professional role of advocating for social and economic justice.” In addition, Van Soest (2003) also stated that, “for social workers, the distribution of goods other than political or economic resources, such as health services, education, and leisure, is within the realm of social justice.”
The concept of justice is simultaneously recognized and misunderstood around the world. The Oxford English Dictionary defines justice as “The quality of being (morally) just or righteous.” For such a brief definition it would not be unlikely to assume that the term justice is a superficial one. On the contrary, this age-old term might have started with a single simple meaning but has developed many more over its existence. The ways civilizations have evolved have in turn forced the word to evolve. Due to this evolution of civilizations, the current state of justice has been lost and it is important to recollect it traits. Many branches of justice now exist and it is possible one may become overwhelmed when searching for its true definition. Observing the term justice presents a plethora of opinions about its definite meaning. In order to create a solid understanding of justice it is necessary to analyze a few of its important branches: retribution, restoration, and distribution.
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Distributive justice, it reflects the understanding in fairness of outcomes. In a working relationship, employees certainly want equal pay, rewards, evaluations,
The largest petroleum-producing nation in Africa is Nigeria. The petroleum company is the main contributing factor of the GDP in the West African nation, which is also the continents, most noticeable and populous reserves. Since Nigeria was under British control it has suffered socio-economic and political adversities for decades. Corrupt domestic militias and complicity of multinational corporations have rid the nation of its natural resources. The same corporations that are ridding the land and exploring the resources have hypocritically identified Nigeria as a major concern with regard to human rights and environmental degradation. The petroleum business in Nigeria dynamically impacts its economy so much that “oil and gas exports accounted for more than 98% of export earnings and about 83% of federal government revenue, as well as generating more than 40% of its GDP.” Just to be reminiscent on this fact, the petroleum business accounts for almost the entire exporting business of a country so it raises the question of, where is the income going and how is it bring redistributed?
Performance management is crucial for an organization going through transition especially since employees are the most affected. Most of the employees are undergoing a career crisis since most them have to adjust personally and professionally to the new work environment, an obligation that is not that easy but has to be implemented if one wishes to keep their job. BP Oil on the other hand, has the mandate of helping their employees in the transitional period since the employees need some time to adjust to their new working environment. It is for this reason that the management of the organization is mandated to practice efficient transitional management otherwise it will lose many employees both skilled and none skilled
CSR is recognizing whether corporate behavior has responsibility on the social and environmental. The global oil companies are sparing no effort to promote the concept of social and environmental responsibility and action taken. With the improvement of the quality of life, the air quality is becoming more and more concerned by people. For example, in China, in addition to monitoring data and indicators are a reminder that environmental protection is imperative, the frequent visits of haze weather also make people intuitively feel the air pollution. Moreover, Fahad Al-Attiya said oil and gas, sunshine, wind and money is the abundant power that a country needs, but missing water is unbelievable. Both BP and SHELL conduct similar towards CSR that