Essay Outline Topic: Responsibility toward customers- Safety and quality Thesis statement: Companies which have goals to make a profit should follow the rules which give to customers, safe and quality products by courtesy way. Unethical: Company #1: Uber Canada Inc. -Description of company: This type of company provides taxi-cab services to customers by using Smartphone with downloaded application which gives an opportunity to look where taxi driver is. Also, this application gives opportunity to know how much it cost, and how’s to pay for Uber services. -Example of unsafe activity: Not licenced taxi-cab services operating over than 51 countries in the world. However, some countries banned Uber activity. This decision based on the expert’s opinion which identified this company what providing the taxi-cub services by unsafe way. …show more content…
However, some of the countries allow for operation of this taxi-cab service. “A private member's bill was tabled at Queen's Park Wednesday to give municipalities more power to deal with illegal taxis and ride-sharing companies like Uber” (CBC News, 2014, par. 1). Company#2: International Business Machines (IBM) -Description of company: “International Business Machines Corporation (IBM), incorporated on June 16, 1911, is an information technology (IT) company. IBM operates in five segments: Global Technology Services (GTS), Global Business Services (GBS), Software, Systems and Technology and Global Financing” (Reuters, n.d., par.1). -Example of unsafe activity: “IBM Corp has been sued by a shareholder who accused it of concealing how its ties to what became a major U.S. spying scandal reduced business in China and ultimately caused its market value to plunge more than $12 billion” (Reuters, 2013, par. 1). -Result: IBM continues business in the safe way. However, have some problems with corporate image. Ethical: Company #1: Intel