Moral And Ethical Values And Character Analysis Of Erin Brockovich

Erin Brockovich: Erin Brockovich is the mother of three children; unemployed and desperate for a job she joins a small law firm forcefully by convincing Ed Masry that she is smart and bright who can do a better job than those with a law degree. When Erin gets the job she is in the second level, stage three of moral development known as Interpersonal Concordance. She is trying to be a good mother, who could support and provide the best for her children. However, as the story progresses she enters the third level as she takes on a billion dollar corporation known as PG&E believing in the morals and ethics of doing business. Her endless compassion and resilient efforts to defend the people of Hinkley, makes her enter the sixth stage know as the

They cheated, gave bribery to people in order to keep their mouth shut, and conducted their business against all the moral and ethical values of how a business should be. In my opinion all the PG&E staff be it the representative who was sent to discuss the matter with Erin, to their higher ups all were in the first level, stage one known as Self Focused. Their sheer greed for earning profits at the cost of harming the health of the people of Hinkley shows that they lacked moral ethics of doing proper and clean business. The only person who actually did something about what was happening was a guy named Charles Embry, whose pivotal role in the lawsuit tipped the odds in the favor of Erin with the crucial piece of evidence he provided her

The harmful effects of using hexavalent chromium to human health and the environment was known by PG&E, however they misinformed the people of Hinkley that they were using chromium 3 which was actually beneficial and safe to use. They kept deceiving the people who were being affected by the side effects that hexavalent chromium had. The company lost one of the largest lawsuit in American history and ended up paying $333 million to the people of Hinkley as a compensation for what they had done. Which again shows that the company officials would do anything in order to satisfy their own greed and need for money, no matter what the