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JOHNSON & JOHNSON took its pain reliever off the
market when faced with a product tampering scare.
The decision to remove Tylenol was temporarily
costly in dollars but the strong market leadership
was reinforced. One of its senior executives when
asked about the recall responded:
"We never really though we had much of a choice.
Our code of conduct was such a way of life in
the firm that our employees, including me, would
have been scandalized had we taken another course.
We never seriously considered avoiding the costly
recall."
Sir Adrian CADBURY'S grandfather resolved an ethical
conflict. He was deeply and publicly opposed to the
Anglo-Boer War. The Queen ordered his chocolate company
to send a "decorative tin with a bar of chocolate to all
soldiers serving in South Africa". Recognizing the need
to provide employment for his workers as well as the
morale impact on the soldiers, he produced the chocolate
at cost. He did not personally profit from a situation
that he considered to be unethical.
A Seattle-based engineering consultancy,Parametrix Inc.
had to pay $350,000 after the SPA caught it with
bootleg software. The SPA is a trade group of 792 soft-
ware companies that has policed the used of pirated
software since 1988. The software industry loses about
$4 billion per year through software piracy. The SPA
files lawsuits at the rate of 2 per week. Companies are
taking a firm stand against employees who pirate, and
most MIS departments are on the side of SPA!
The Irvine Unified School District (Irvine,California)
announced in early 1992 that it will teach at all
grade levels a core set of values,"based in the belief
that there are values and qualitites of character to
which people in all sucessful civilizations subscribe."
The list of values to be taught includes:
honestry,responsibility,compassions,perseverance,
respectfulness,cooperation,courage,and
citizenship.