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CALTEX IN SOUTH AFRICA
VANESSA HARRISON-HARVEY
PHI445 PERSONAL & ORGANIZATIONAL ETHICS
INSTRUCTOR: KRISTINE OUZTS
JANUARY 30, 2012

Running Head: CALTEX 2 Why did Caltex decide to bring their business to South Africa? Was it for profit alone? In the case of Caltex there were situations that were created by Caltex that the company should have made a decision on: (a) In 1977 the South African people believed apartheid as being cruel and definitely immoral (b) Not building the plant would open the door for a more less moral and ethical situation (c) Multinational companies also had both moral and ethical responsibility
Caltex was a joint subsidiary of Texaco and Standard Oil that maintained extensive and growing refinery operations in South Africa which benefited the South African economy.
The utilitarian benefits for building Caltex plant in 1977 were less important than the violations of moral rights and justice. Better living wage and better job conditions were offered by Caltex; the most important issue in South Africa was the removal of apartheid. Several arguments needed to be answered: (a) what were the moral and ethical standards regarding political systems, where corporate responsibility that has a mandate to make companies aware of their position. Standard Oil and Texaco were under no legal or even moral obligation and (b) what economic benefits could the companies bring to South Africa with economic power, the income and the attention.
Standard Oil and Texaco would bring nationally and internationally to South Africa the benefits of slow change seem to point to a stronger argument for building the plant (c) did

Running head: CALTEX 3 potential changes for the workers benefit the shareholders? Because of the TuTu principles fairness and respect were available and