Petrobras Corruption Case Study
Assignment-2 MGT422 – Business Ethics and Organizational Social Responsibility
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Course Learning Outcomes-Covered
| Aligned
PLOs |
Course Learning Outcomes (CLOs) |
| MGT.M.3.2
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The capacity to write coherent project about a case study or an actual research about ethics |
Assignment Instructions:
Read this article about the Petrobras case (https://openstax.org/l/53Petrobras)
Operation Car Wash: Is this the biggest corruption scandal in history?
On 14 January 2015, police agent Newton Ishii was waiting in Rio de Janeiro’s Galeão airport to meet the midnight flight from London. His mission was simple. A former executive of Brazil’s national oil company, Petrobras, was on the plane. Ishii was to arrest him as soon as he set foot in Brazil and take him for questioning by detectives.
No big deal, the veteran cop thought as he ticked off the hours in the shabby Terminal One lounge. This was just one of many anti-bribery operations he had worked on. Usually they made a few headlines, then faded away, leaving the perpetrators to carry on as if nothing had happened. There was a popular expression for this: acabou em pizza (to end up with pizza), which suggested that there was no political row that could not be settled over a meal and a few beers. (Excerpt) Source: The Guardian
Assignment Questions: (Marks 05)
Read the above Article and answer the following Questions:
1. Do you think preventive measure could have been taken either by management or government? How would have they worked? (Not less than 600 words) 5-Marks
2. Is this case an example of a culture with different business ethics, how could corporations with international locations adjust for this type of issues or cases. (Not less than 600 words) 5-Marks
