From MBA Oath to Successful OE Executive Management Leadership

From MBA Oath to Successful OE Executive Management Leadership 

The catastrophe raised very serious ethical issues. The pesticide factory was built in the midst of densely populated settlements. UCIL chose to store and produce MIC, a very toxic and even deadly chemical (permitted exposure levels in the US and Britain are 0.02 parts per million), in an area where nearly 120,000 people Uved. The MIC plant was not designed to handle a runaway reaction. When the uncontrolled reaction started, MIC was flowing through the scrubber (intended for neutralizing the MIC emissions) at more than 200 times the designed capacity. 

Incidents like this as well as other high profile business failures were to some extent responsible for top tier business schools offering classes in business ethics. Some of the topics related to the Bhopal incident that were discussed in business ethics classroom case studies would include and encompass discussion and learning with respect to some of the following issues  

Now claiming a broad coalition of MBA students, graduates and advisors, representing over 250 schools from around the world, the organization partners with the Aspen Institute and the World Economic Forum. 

Equipment Failure—Twenty-Eight Percent, these failures occurred when materials of construction were unsuitable, weld problems developed, or unanticipated stresses occurred. Instruments, pumps, electrical systems, valves, piping, and vessels can be involved and subsequently may require modifications to correct the problem. On occasion, fiaws are exposed only through experience. 

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