Running head: BRITISH PETROLEUM
PART 2: British Petroleum (BP) Oil Industry Company
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Table of Contents
ICC group: Balancing Ethics in International Trade ..................................................................................... 3
Introduction .................................................................................................................................................. 3
1.
PART 1: Strategies to make sure the equality in the work place ...................................................... 4
Inclusion and fairness ........................................................................................................................... 4
Provide opportunities to get equal organizational training.................................................................. 5
2. To identify and to prevent biasness .................................................................................................. 5
Gender discrimination .......................................................................................................................... 5
3. Equality in the recruitment process................................................................................................... 6
PART 2: Question 1: ..................................................................................................................................... 6
Question 2: .................................................................................................................................................... 7
Responsibilities to the Individual .............................................................................................................. 7
Responsibilities to the Organization ......................................................................................................... 8
Responsibilities to the Community and Society ....................................................................................... 8
Responsibilities to the Profession ............................................................................................................. 8
Conflict of Interest .................................................................................................................................... 9
Question 3: .................................................................................................................................................... 9
ICC group: Balancing Ethics in International Trade
Q# Suggest strategies that ICC group could implement to foster a culture of equality and a
workplace that strives towards true equal opportunity.
Introduction
The report is based on the case study of the company “ICC groups”. The event “Expo 2020”
would be held in Dubai and the company has to visit Dubai in order to complete the set-up for
upcoming project. The company decided to send Hanna and other few team members to manage
the project. Hanna is so conscious and deeply focused about her work and the project. The
manager of the company thought to not sending Hanna and told her that she is not going to
handle the project as Dubai based construction companies prefer to see the male project manager
rather than the woman. He told her that he will be sending a male project manager to cover this
event rather than Hanna as he thinks that sending a woman project manager will not make them
to achieve the goal. Hanna became so depressed but after finding out that the builders had not
having any issue with having female manager they were fine with that one too. After addressing
the issue Hanna decided to hire a lawyer and to take legal action against the policies of the
company.
PART 1:
1. Strategies to make sure the equality in the work place
In order to work effectively and to remain credible and reliable in the market and in order to have
an impressive and effective working environment it is essential to make sure the work place
equality. Work place equality is essential and play a key role in getting and achieving your
objectives in great manner. Companies like “ICC Group”, should focus on providing working
place equality so that their employers can play an effective role in making the business
successful. The strategies that the company can implement in order to get the desired goals are as
follows:
Inclusion and fairness
Management of any company should make sure to involve every worker without any
discrimination and differences in the happenings of the company also there should be an open
communication policy that can play a key role in the progress of the company. An open
communication strategy allow and encourage workers to take a part in the events of the company
also identifying issues and obstacles and to make recommendations and suggestions to overcome
those obstacles. This policy also includes to consider the feedback of the employees also they
can share their opinions regarding anything. The companies like ‘ICC Group” should also make
sure the implementation of an open communication policy for the better and productive
environment.
Provide opportunities to get equal organizational training
Providing equal opportunities to get equal organizational training can also be a key role to
support the concept of equality in the working place. Training is a vital factor to promote
equality as it helps in raising the awareness of the workers and make them able to understand the
issues and crisis and to find out ways to overcome those issues. ICC group also use the technique
of engaging employees into training session so they can figure out the ways to work together
without any difference and to evaluate cases and scenarios.
2. To identify and to prevent biasness
There are many differences that the management of the companies might have to face while
engaging with various workers. The most important thing is to identify and acknowledge the bias
behavior and to understand how it can affect your progress and the performance of the company.
Management of any company should not be bias in any way and should treat workers neutrally.
ICC group should also make sure to treat and handle its worker all neutrally.
Gender discrimination
Direct and indirect gender discrimination can be the reason to have unhealthy and bias working
environment that can affect not only the performance of the employee but the progress of the
business too in long term. It is also a mind-set of the people that women cannot manage things
and work effectively. There are parameters to select and hire women for the jobs. There are some
limited and specific jobs for women to have and this should be the reason to have a bad economy
in the country. This gender based discrimination should be prevented in every field of life. ICC
group should also focus to prevent this kind of gender discrimination and to make sure the
equality in the work place.
3. Equality in the recruitment process
Hiring and recruitment process involves a variety of job seekers so it is important to exercise the
equality in the process of selection and according to the merit. Selection on the basis of merits
will be helpful for organizations to have an effective and talented team to get its objective
accomplished. Companies like ICC group should also maintain the neutral process of hiring
employees so that it can be beneficial for the company to get more benefits from the talented
employees.
PART 2: British Petroleum (BP) Oil Industry Company
Question 1:
BP operates worldwide as an internal control device that operates on the defined business
management cycles. The case of BP in setting the framework in its work exercises for
compliance with the law, the threat to the framework and the environmental problems. They put
people, bikes and plants together to give BP a decent presentation. Some organizations act like
resident businesses but BP does not because of oil spills occurring in various areas in which they
operate leading to climate catastrophe in those areas and based on the heavy use of gas by
individuals impacted change as we do now. The weather is unstable today. BP directs its tasks to
the created and agricultural nations. In non-industrial countries, they have an extraordinary
obligation to guarantee and respect common freedoms and all other moral issues relating to these
areas. There is a substantial relationship you need to make to ensure that they do not affect the
surrounding neighbourhood networks by investing resources in these networks, e.g. build clinics,
schools and employ people in their area etc. needy industrialized countries are obliged to avoid
youth work as their exploitative practices (Arora and Lodhia, 2017).
In the UK, the mandatory age for a young person to start work is 16 years. In nonindustrialized countries, it is 18 years. For BP morale, you need to check people ages before
using them. BP needs to allow women to take up different positions and make choices. This can
be found on their website for women who have their interpersonal organization around BP, the
BP Women International Network. Here they offer women a global debate on their issues in a
relaxed way. It is an assembly of close women who work at BP and empower women in their
global organization to continue working with BP and seeking their careers. Likewise, BP is
required not to be included in the downgrade or to collect payments from any individual or any
associative organization deemed dishonest (Ingersoll, Locke and Reavis, 2012).
Question 2:
Responsibilities to the Individual
BP is committed to guaranteeing its loved ones who are the agents by providing them
with a great place to work to ensure they are not harmed. Also, they are their partners,
speculators, rivals and customers. The moral judgment they must make is to recognize what is
ideal for people. However, from a business perspective, it can be very difficult to do the right
thing here and there, but the benefit of moral importance will be less when considering morality
testing. BP has provided government support to its relatives, including clinical referrals, dental
work, etc. (Kanso, Nelson and Kitchen, 2020).
Responsibilities to the Organization
BP's Corporate Social Duty methodology also can provide relevance to three
performance estimates that integrate the social, natural, and monetary, the so-called triple
primary concern. The PR engagement with its social obligation ensures that every place where it
acts, its exercises must have the ability to configure economic benefits and openings to improve
personal satisfaction regardless of those directly affected by the organization. British Petroleum's
CSR duty focuses on five aspects that combine representative relationships, moral conduct,
welfare security and eco-execution, monetary perspective and control (Bodkin, Amato and
Amato, 2015).
Responsibilities to the Community and Society
Social networks are a useful technique for promoting social consideration among
individuals and their families by involving them in finding and performing the intercessions they
need. Social work is at the forefront of individuals, families or networks who have difficulty
monitoring life's challenges that have been influenced by monetary and social regulations,
government support frameworks and the way they are incorporated into its interior. However,
there are different views on the idea of involving people and applying socially holistic strategies
in social work (Derani and Naidu, 2016).
Responsibilities to the Profession
Competent responsibility and accountability for individual activities and the results of
those activities are essential to the clinical management system. "Clinical stewardship is a
framework in which NHS associations are mandated to continually improve the way they are
administered and protect unique expectations of care by creating a climate in which the size of
clinical deliberation will flourish" (Uldam, 2016).
Conflict of Interest
The members have different degrees of intensity, impact and enthusiasm for the organization. It
is imperative to identify, organize, and understand the impact they will have on the decisions
made. Less fascinated people keep these people adequately educated and conversing with them
to ensure that major problems do not arise. Often, these people can be very helpful in detailing
the BP business (Hsu et al., 2013).
Question 3:
The organization is also planning negotiations with interests in elective energy with
biofuel, wind and solar or carbon sequestration and interests in exploration and innovation.
Corporations focus on strong and secure business with the entrepreneurial spirit around home
security and consistently execute the management framework. BP's business systems were
fundamentally geared towards productivity and corporate tasks. With the initiative of Cost,
Focus, Development, Separation and Environmental Change, BP had expanded its specialized
units and classified mergers and acquisitions (Huber, 2013).
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