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A 7 page paper. This essay includes the problems Boeing had with a gender class action lawsuit and with the SEC. It reports the company's values and comments on the violations of its own ethical code and what the company is doing about it. The essay also describes how human resources has reinforced an open and collaborative corporate culture. Bibliography lists 7 sources.
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corporate citizenship, and enhancing shareholder value (Boeing, Values, 2008). The company states that these values act as guideposts and that they live by these values (Boeing, Culture, 2008). Given the
fact that Boeing has had a reputation of promoting integrity, imagine their surprise as well as the worlds surprise when they were faced with a class-action lawsuit and also an
investigation by the SEC. Here was a company that had received accolades and awards for its ethics programs (Marshall, 2005). In the late 1990s, Boeing "quietly began investigating an explosive
internal issue: whether female employees were paid less than men" (Holmes and France, 2004, p. 84). Their own statistical analysis revealed there was a difference of $3,741.04 in the salaries
given to men and women who were hired for the higher paying positions (Holmes and France, 2004, p. 84). Women, of course, knew this and some actually complained about it
but to no avail (Holmes and France, 2004). In 2000, however, 38 women filed a class action lawsuit against Boeing for gender discrimination in terms of salaries (Holmes and France,
2004). When the attorneys requested Boeings own statistical analysis regarding the issue, the company refused under the guise of attorney-client confidentiality (Holmes and France, 2004). They claimed the analyses were
conducted under the recommendations of their lawyers (Holmes and France, 2004). Worse, Boeings compensation manager directed employees to remove and destroy any of their working drafts about the salary issue
(Holmes and France, 2004). It did not work because the federal judge hearing the case ordered the company to "unseal more than 12,000 pages of internal Boeing documents" (Holmes
and France, 2004, p. 84). The judge then ordered Boeing "to hand over the series of salary analyses it had fought hardest to withhold -- documents that left little room
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