Ch. 3 - Ethics & Social Responsibility

Frederick Douglass couldn't of said it better when he stated ''If there is no struggle, there is no progress''. One thing for sure Bp knew struggles following the 2010 oil spill which left the Gulf Of Mexico and the people surrounding it damaged. Although Bp could have beaten themselves up about how this would effect there organization and its values; they did the total opposite by sitting a new agenda on how to take social responsibility to a whole new platform. It was very much notable that Bp would be questioned on their ethics and morals towards the plight of society and if it was clear that Bp understood exactly what had just happened. Prior to the oil spill I would have ranked Bp as a Pre-conventional morality organization because it seem as if they were self centered and only focused on the internal state of the company. Eventually growing into a post-conventional organization, Bp had to not only adhere to state and federal laws but give back in ways that humans can then again trust Bp. The harm done to the community of the gulf was what some people would like to call a rude awakening to the unethical causes one organization can have on a society. But Bp took this incident and played it into there favor by then going to create a culture of safety in its company. Learning from there mistakes Bp established in 2011 a Safety and Operational function that worked alongside the business to seek and deliver safe, reliable, and compliant operations across the groups operated business. It served three particular functions which were to set and update the requirements; provide expert scrutiny; and provide deep technical expertise to the operations. Not only did Bp take action in investing there money in many global problems that funded an enormous amount of tarnished world wide institutions they created something in which I've never heard of and that was social investment. They did this by now buying an extravagant amount of supplies that supported there business from local businesses. This way it kept the local economies in ruputable standards.

               Bp now puts its money in many on going fights in communities around the gulf and is in favor to support any social problems countries may have surrounding the gulf. They are and still is in the process of restoring all natural resources surrounding the Gulf and continues to promote tourism along the gulf coast. Although this may not be enough and who is to say who can measure what will be enough; Bp in every way possible are committed to its new culture which allows safety to be first and allows the company to be in the frontier of all ethical ways to be a oil organization. Since 2010, Bp social reputation has grown tremendously with all its fighting efforts to stand for what it did and for what is right