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Explain Lockheed's Movement Towards A More Ethical Workplace

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Lockheed’s movement towards a more ethical workplace.

Prepared for
Dr. Shah
Trident University International

Prepared by
Timothy Rychecky
Business Ethics 301

August 5th 2017

Some of the unorthodox strategies covered by Terris during the 1950’s was anything from making donations to a support widows and orphans in Indonesia to making deals with influential people in governments to include royalty in the Netherlands and Japan, political parties in Italy. All these entities were willing to convince the powers that made spending decisions to purchase the starfighter. In addition, Terris describes a time period where outright bribery was used as a way of doing business even though in the US it was against ethical rules, overseas it was

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