BP’s Corporate Culture

BP has had a record of mishaps affecting life, the environment, and the property of the company and other stakeholders. On October 26, 2010, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in the United States aired a fifty-three-minute TV documentary titled The Spill, which covered BP’s problems at its Texas City refinery, its Thunder Horse oil platform, its pipeline in Alaska, and the Gulf oil spill. Questions Review the PBS documentary The Spill at http://video.pbs.org/video/1625293496 and answer the following

Questions:

1. Analyze whether BP’s corporate culture was ethical?

2. Why has BP’s culture developed as it has?

3. How you would suggest changing its culture?

4. What roles should the CEO and the Board of Directors play in making this change?

5. How could this change in culture be measured?

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Corporate Culture at BP

BP has a track of of accidents involving people, the environment, and the company’s and other stakeholders’ property. On October 26, 2010, the Public Broadcasting System (PBS) in the United States aired The Disaster, a 53-minute television documentary about BP’s difficulties at its Texas City refinery, Thunder Horse oil platform, pipeline in Alaska, and the Gulf oil spill. Questions Examine the PBS documentary The Spill at http://video.pbs.org/video/1625293496 and respond to the following questions.

Questions:

1. Determine whether or not BP’s business culture was ethical.

2. Why has BP’s culture evolved in the way that it has?

3. How would you advise modifying the company’s culture?

4. What roles, if any, should the CEO and the Board of Directors have in effecting this change?

5. In what way could

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