Business ethics is when a company tries to abide by the law and protect their image. BP has done an exceptionally poor job at that ever since the massive oil spill in the Gulf of Mexico. The Financial Post recently published an article alleging and detailing the various methods in which BP is trying to shift the blame onto other parties. Instead of taking full responsibility, BP is trying to salvage their damaged reputations by allocating most of the blame on rig operator Transocean and their contractor Halliburton. The article is a brief snapshot on the report that BP released saying that the faulty parts that resulted in the oil spill were not “BP’s primary responsibility”. The main issue with BP is that they are not owning up to their mistakes. They are trying to shift their wrongs onto others in a desperate attempt to fix their ruined image. BP’s best choice would have been to be direct and take responsibility for their mistakes. This would show the world that they have the integrity to take action for the things they did wrong and the desire to try and make things better.
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