Explain how Ethical Climate is promoted in organizations through examples.
There are highly ethical organizations, examples of some of which are given below: 1. Marilyn Hamilton, founded Quickie Designs in 1980, who was a teacher and athlete who was paralyzed in …
‘Managers’ responsibility is to conduct business to increase profits’. Discuss.
• Nobel laureate Milton Friedman said ‘The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits……. The responsibility of managers is to conduct business in accordance with their stockholders’ desires, which…
Why managements prefer to make engineers as managers than non-engineers? / Why engineers find management positions attractive?
Engineers undergo the most intensive technical training amongst professionals. But still, many of them move to managerial positions early in their career for which they received no training. Organizations find …
Which studies are more useful to ‘engineer managers’ than even engineering?
Richard L.Meehan, a civil engg graduate from MIT, was retained by General Electric as a consultant to testify before Nuclear Regulatory Commission about the capability of GE’s nuclear plant in…
What are the difficulties in Decommissioning Weapons?
1. Even now, shells (duds or live) which landed about 90 years back during World War I are found by farmers during ploughing. Special bomb disposal squads are being kept busy…
Explain the problems of defense industry with examples.
1. Large military build-ups: $2 billion cost overrun on the development of C5-A cargo plane reported to the public by Ernest Fitzgerald due to poor operating efficiencies in defense industry. He…
What are the Problems of Defense Industry in brief?
1. Large military build-ups, massive projects all lead to unethical business practices and the urgency of completion of the weapons projects does not allow proper controlling and monitoring. 2. ‘Technology creep’ –…
Illustrate the involvement of engineers in Weapons Development with examples.
1. Bob is employed by a firm manufacturing anti-personnel bombs. These bombs tie up much of the enemy’s resources in treating the wounded who survive its explosion (by showering its fragments…
Describe the destructive nature and power of weapons and their development?
• Towards the end of World War II, night raids sometimes on civilian areas were ver y common • The deaths caused by Atom bombs on Hiroshima, Nagasaki were not more than…
How much is being spent in Defence expenditure and how Arms Trade gets promoted by private manufacturers of arms?
- Hundreds of billions of dollars, annually, throughout the world, are being spent for military operations. - 25% of this is spent on just procurement of weapons. - 17% of these are spent…
