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This 8 page paper looks at an event concerning business ethics. In 2008 a UK based construction firm Mabey and Johnson turned themselves in for committing international corruption. The paper looks at the facts and considers the ethics of the situation, how they may have been viewed by those involved in the case and outcome. The bibliography cites 11 sources.
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File: TS14_TEmabey.rtf
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firm specializes in the construction of bridges, selling an average of 30,000 tons of bridging each year, and responsible for 250 employees located United Kingdom, as well as a large
number of employees involved in the different construction projects across the globe. The firm is also an approved military contractor, supporting battlefield engineering as well as general construction (Mabey and
Johnson, 2009). It may appear the company does not have to consider many ethical decisions, the company does not deal with an emotive
subject, instead it is simply providing construction materials, engineering and expertise. These are generally seen as operations which benefit most stakeholders. However, the former management of the company made some
highly questionable decisions. The has a history bidding for public contracts from different governments, in order to gain some contracts during the 1990s the company sought to try and influence
officials in Ghana and Jamaica. The practice appears to have started gradually, with the first "backhander", taking place in 1993 in Jamaica (BBC News, 2009).
They started to develop a culture where "backhanders" became accepted, the practice was seen to take place in Ghana, Mozambique, Angola, Bangladesh and Madagascar (BBC News, 2009; Hope,
2009). The culture and widespread practice may have helped to desensitize the firm to the nature of the transgressions, with memos referring to the development of "close personal relationships", and
the use of the "white mans handshake" prior to the conclusion of a contract (BBC News, 2009). Furthermore a total ?365,000 was
paid to Saddam Husseins regime in Iraq between the years 2001 and 2002 in order to gain contracts (Hope, 2009). In total the company made payouts totaling ?1 million in
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