Business Ethics - Case Studies

• Aware of high risk design

• Re-design costs significantly more than paying out for damages

• Ford released the Pinto without a re-design

Ford Pinto: Corporate Social Responsibility

• Kantian approach

• Loss of profit from actively choosing buyers and partners

• Not exploiting partners

Ben & Jerry’s: Corporate Social Responsibility

• Over 1100 people died in the building, more than 2500 were injured

• Shop closed after cracks appeared in the building, but the garment workers were ordered to return to work

Rana Plaza: Globalisation

• Raised concern regarding patient treatment or his hospital with the care quality commission, but no action was taken

• Bryan then turned to BBC panorama, who created a documentary programme bringing awareness

• Led to care workers given prison sentences, and NHS England taking action to develop care

Nurse Terry Bryan: Whistleblowing

• Refuses to test on animals and supports campaign like the Climate Defence Project

• Tries to use only natural ingredients and has ensured that it does not use ingredients and has ensured that it does not use ingredients linked to human rights abuses

• Considers the environment through methods like reduced packaging

Lush: Good ethics is good buisness