Organising and Leading Throughout the Company and Making Chevron an Ethically Responsible Organization.

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1.0 Introduction 1.1. Purpose of the Report This report aims to guide managers in Chevron Corporation in dealing with the dumping of toxic oil waste through carefully executed organising and leading throughout the company and making Chevron an ethically responsible organization. According to Mellor, R., Hettihewa, S., & Batten, J. A. (2006), ethics are defined as standards of conduct or moral judgements. 1.2 Background Information Chevron is one of the world's leading integrated energy companies, with subsidiaries that conduct business worldwide. It produces and transport crude oil and natural gas; refine, market and distribute transportation fuels and lubricants (Chevron, 2011). 1.3 Issue concerning Chevron Corporation The major issue that Chevron Corp. has to address currently is the pollution problem that has contributed in legal actions by both governments and local people against Chevron Corporation. As a result of legal actions against Chevron Corp. for polluting the Amazon with over 18 billion gallons of toxic oil waste, Chevron Corp. has been ordered to pay $8 billion to clean up its oil contamination and restore human rights for the 30,000 affected people, by an Ecuadorian Court (Planetsave, 2011). 1.4 Scope This report specifically relates to the dumping of millions of toxic oil waste in the soil of Ecuador by Chevron Corporation making residents ill and damaging forests and rivers. Recommendations from this report would be fully implemented within the next two years; it also includes the changes to company’s policies. 1.5 Methodology The gathered information was collected by conferring to Chevron Corporation’s official website, value handbooks and research on relevant academic journal articles that would help Chevron Corporation to remedy the toxic waste dumps and implement new policies in order to prevent these types of

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