A 15 page paper. In the late 1990s, employees at Boeing stole proprietary documents from Lockheed. Boeing's CFO offered a job to one of the Pentagon's procurement officers if she would steer the contract decision to Boeing. This paper reports what happened with these and other dalliances at this company and the consequences of these acts. The writer discusses ethics and what Boeing has done since then in terms of ethics training. A SWOT of the ethics program is presented. Recommendations are made. Bibliography lists 13 sources.
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it went to European partnership between EADS (the European Aeronautic Defence and Space Company and Northrop Grumman (Kidder, 2008). EADS is the company that makes the super-airplane called Airbus (Kidder,
2008). As one would expect, labor unions, Boeing workers and even the U.S. Congress were livid with all those billions of dollars being sent overseas by our own government agency.
The U.S. Air Force, however, was not thinking about any of that, they were thinking about getting the equipment from a company not riddled with ethical scandals. And, since the
U.S. Air Force was tangentially involved in those scandals, the agency really needed to do something that would protect their own integrity. The problems began in the 1990s with Boeings
involvement in a number of ethical transgressions. Some of the ethical misconduct was found at the very top of the company but it was the other incidents that gave Boeing
huge criminal and civil problems. One issue had to do with proprietary documents. Boeing and Lockheed were in competition for a government contract that had to do with the
rocket launching programs (Kidder, 2008; Dykewicz, 2003). Boeing employees stole about 25,000 pages of documents from Lockheed Martin Corp. (Wayne, 2006) that provided critical insights into Lockheed Martins proprietary cost
and pricing" (Dykewicz, 2003). They used those documents when preparing their own 1998 bid for the EELV contracts (Wayne, 2006; Dykewicz, 2003). Boeing won those contracts. The Air Force investigation
found that the problems seemed to be confined three units at Boeing (Dykewicz, 2003). In response, Boeing changed the structure of operations to have more control over the EELV bidding
(Dykewicz, 2003). The company fired those employees who were involved in the theft of Lockheeds proprietary documents (Dykewicz, 2003). They immediately initiated a four-hour ethics training for all 75,000 employees