For a long time, Shell has been operating and producing oil in the Niger Delta region of Nigeria. The local ethnic group occupying the region are the Ogoni people. In the 1990s, due to the social issues the ethnic group was experiencing, members of the Ogoni formed a human rights group called MOSOP, “Movement for the Survival of the Ogoni People. In the 1990s, Shell due to their drilling operations in Nigeria supported the Nigerian military regime. The social consequence of their support was that the human rights of the Goni people were continually violated.  MOSOP finally responded proactively by...

Lamoiyan Corporation was born out of the desire of Pedro to rise from the sudden end of his previous business venture Aluminum Containers Inc., during the time ACI was doing good supplying Aluminum tube containers to Multinational Corporations., In 1985 MNCs started to adopt plastic laminated tubes, and in 1988 Aluminum containers were no longer used. The move of MNC’s to use Plastic tube containers forced Pedro to close down his factory. Thinking of ideas to bounce back, he then entertained the idea that he should make his own toothpaste, already having the packaging needed to contain the product. He...

Discrimination of women in the workplace even today is rampant. In many places it is due to culture and lack of diversity policies within the workplace. In the case of Walmart, the women of Walmart have banded together to file a class-action lawsuit against Walmart for discrimination and unfair disparity on promotions and wages among their male counterparts. Breaking the culture is very hard. Comparing the case to the norms in countries like Japan, women have a harder time climbing the corporate rather compared to their male counterparts. Enterprises of today should realize the need for improving their diversification policies...

  It is August 2017 and among google’s ranks, an employee named James Damore wants to vocalize his criticism towards Google’s diversity efforts among its workers. He plots down that the Google programs of Google, like mentoring are catered towards certain genders and/or race, and does not cater to everyone. In one example he cited that, women may not be suited to high-stress positions that’s why women were few in high positions. Also, he noted that this behavior may in turn lower the standards of Google in their effort to increase diversity. The memo reaching 10 pages was posted in...

  Titans of the industry are sometimes built upon a solid foundation. For Enron, they have been built around loopholes, not within the scope of the law to pump their value by posting unrealized gains based on projected profits. Today, they are well known and are synonymous with the epitome of greed and corruption. Their collapse sent shockwaves throughout society, some people whose retirement funds were invested in Enron collapsed leaving them in limbo. The greed within the enterprise was systematic from top-down. The culture within Enron was that of misconduct and deceit, wherein instead of reprimanded, they were rewarded....

Before social corporate responsibility has become widely adopted by many organizations today, the lack of it before was heavily exploited by huge enterprises. In some cases, regular consumers have been harmed due to the systemic need for organizations to earn more money. These organizations will exploit areas of industry where regulations have not yet been fully developed, or regulations are reactive in their approach. In the 1970s, the Ford Motor Company had designed and sold the Ford Pinto, a subcompact car that was sought by consumers. While demand for the car was high, people within the company for a while...