CASE STUDY

Ethics and Governance Summative Assessment: a case study

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Ethics and Governance Summative Assessment: a case study

Task 1: In the BAE Systems case-study, identify laudable, culpable and non-culpable decisions. Rank culpable decisions and show how context makes some difference to how much blame a culprit deserves.

The chief executive officer of British Aerospace, Tony Blair, came back in 1997. In May 1997, Mr Blair was elected as a Prime Minister. Many business leaders have followed him, and the way he has succeeded. He has acted as one of the most skilled salesman, and has promoted ethical foreign policy (Miller 2010, pp. 23-42). The BAE merged with Marconi Systems. This merged firm got known as BAE Systems. Ethics is everywhere, in every business that businessmen do. Similarly, the BAE has also done business transactions which are either ethical or unethical. In basic words, there were culpable and non-culpable decisions made by the BAE systems (Sadlowski 1984, pp. 10-21). The UK government did not pay any bribe, and the NAO's 1992 report had been suppressed because there were fears that its publication would offend the Saudis and put continuing trade relations at risk.

Though, documents specifying the cost of Al-Yamamah Tornados were unintentionally exposed, comprising a telegram from Sir Colin Chandler, then head of the Defence Export Council. It displays that the price got amplified by a third to £21.5m each, an extra £600m. Sources claim that it was members of the Saudi royal family who recommended this price rise, modestly to get their kingdom's cash distracted into their own Swiss bank accounts (Scott 2000, pp. 63-84). Other sources say the higher price got only kept secret because the Saudis inquired for weapons upgrade that it wanted to hide from Iran and Israel. Middlemen almost certainly were paid, which was flawlessly legal until an anti-bribery law got enacted in 2002. The decision to abandon the Al-Yamamah investigation was a colossal failure of Tony Blair's (government). Allegations got brushed aside by Mr Blair's morally pointless argument that our relationship with Saudi Arabia is vitally important.

The campaign against the Arms trade got shocked by the decision of SFO to settle as there would be no opportunity to expose the facts behind the deals under investigation (Green 1988, pp. 65-95). It was a first and brought a pragmatic end to a long-running, wide-ranging investigation. This was an unethical act which created trouble for the UK government.

Task 2: Outlining standard ways to place blame and to respond to it, interpret any defensive utterances by the culprits (and by their supporters); and interpret their critics' (and victims') utterances.

Though, documents specifying the cost of Al-Yamamah Tornados were unintentionally exposed, comprising a telegram from Sir Colin Chandler, then head of the Defence Export Council. It displays that the price got amplified by a third to £21.5m each, an extra £600m. Sources claim that it was members of the Saudi royal family who recommended this price rise, certainly to get their kingdom's cash distracted into their own Swiss bank ...