Aerospace Company: Boeing

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The company I chose to look at from the fortune 500 company list was Boeing. “Boeing is the world's leading aerospace company and the largest manufacturer of commercial jetliners and military aircraft combined. Additionally, Boeing designs and manufactures rotorcraft, electronic and defense systems, missiles, satellites, launch vehicles and advanced information and communication systems. As a major service provider to NASA, Boeing is the prime contractor for the International Space Station. The company also provides numerous military and commercial airline support services. Boeing provides products and support services to customers in 150 countries and is one of the largest U.S. exporters in terms of sales.”(Boeing)

We will be looking at three main points in this paper, ethical principles, employee motivation, and how they manage cultural issues or differences. Bowing makes their ethical principles very clear right on their webpage is a link called “Ethics”. This link takes you to a page explaining the company’s ethical principles. Bowing’s main points for their ethics are, Leadership, Integrity, Quality, Customer satisfaction, People working together, a diverse and Involved team, Good corporate citizenship, and Enhancing shareholder value.

Boeing conducts its business in the most proper and equal ethical manner, while staying in accordance with the company's values and code of conduct and staying in and above compliance with all of today’s standard laws and regulations. Bowing’s code of conduct states, “integrity must underlie all company relationships, including those with customers, suppliers, and communities and among employees. The highest standards of ethical business conduct and compliance are required of Boeing em...

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... that wants employees, where they don’t mind coming into work. They feel secure working with the company. Personal think that Boeing is one of the top places for someone to find himself or herself working. This is a business that is going to stay around and keep growing with new ideas and developments in many different business fields and around the world. They have just about everything an employee could ask for and obviously a successful business.

Works Cited

• Boeing. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.boeing.com/boeing/index.page

• Fulghum, F. (2014, 02 12). Interview by F F []. Inside boeing from employee eye's

• Boeing. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.youtube.com/channel/UC9IEkprr46ScglWU79HF5qQ

• Forbes. (n.d.). Retrieved from http://www.forbes.com/companies/boeing/

• Hellriegel, D. (2011). Organizational behavior. (13th ed.).

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