Ls312 Unit 4 Amtrak Case Study

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Lawanda Brown LS 312-01 Ethics and the Legal Environment Assignment 4: Amtrak Case Study Professor Clyde Craig October 13, 2013 The Wreck of Amtrak’s Sunset Limited was an accident due to poor judgment and human error. People who use public transportation either to go to work or for personal reasons are stakeholders. When corporations do not take care of difficult situations in a timely and proper manner the CSR creates bigger problems.” CSR is a business practice that demands that business organizations look to the effect their decisions have on multiple stakeholders.”(eGuide 2013, pg 3). In the case study of Amtrak the crew members, passengers, mariners, perhaps the communities where the tragedy happen, and the places where Amtrak provides service is all stakeholders. The stakeholders in this case was to have a safe trip while the interest for the crewmembers was not to have anything go wrong that could cost them financially. As for the passengers their interest was to travel in a comfortable manner and less expensive. While on the other hand the cities and areas where the train passed through the communities was happy because it bought business their way. These are all things that stakeholders look at is profit and business. When coming to a railroad track normally there are safeguards to let both the train and the cars crossing know that either one is about to come through. The social responsibility of corporate at Amtrak was having some type of safeguards on the bridge altering boats that there was a bridge ahead or in distance. Legally the Mauvila should share responsibility also because if they had checked and seen what type of weather they was facing before leaving to see was it safe for travel could have prevented some of the fatalities. The lack of people coming forward to take the responsibility for the tragedy is ethically. When accidents

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