Corporate Ethical Failure: Ceo's of Hewlett Packard

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Corporate Ethical Failure: CEO's of Hewlett Packard Introduction The most notable collapse of big organizations roots back to management and majority at the very top level. Unethical decisions can cause dire consequences to the person that made the decision and will ruin the reputation of the organization. Good leadership requires integrity and moral values. According to Nelson and Quick (2008), Ethical behavior is acting in ways consistent with one’s personal values and the commonly held values of the organization and society. The past decade was turbulent times for Hewlett Packard. Declining profits due to the current economic situation and then topped with scandals involving the company chairmen one preceding the other. Both Patricia Dunn and Mark Hurd practiced unethical leadership that lead to their exodus from the Technology giant Hewlett Packard betraying not only the organization but the hundreds of thousands of employees as well. Patricia Dunn Patricia Dunn was the Chairman of Hewlett Packard Company from 2005 through 2006. She spearheaded an investigation into how Hewlett Packard’s long term strategic plan and other corporate details appeared in newspaper articles namely the Wall Street Journal. Dunn hired people to conduct an investigation to find out who is leaking the information to the press. The people she hired practiced illegal techniques in gathering information called pretexting. According to the federal trade commission, pretexting is the practice of getting individual’s personal information under false pretenses ("Pretexting: Your personal Information Revealed," 2009, para. 1). The investigation obtained personal records of the targeted individual employees namely the members of the board at Hewlett Packard without their knowledge and consent. As a woman driven to success, Patricia Dunn had been in top level management all her

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