2011 Thursday, March 31, 2011 Johnson & Johnson – Socialization and Culture, and Organizational Structure Mathew Baptista Cassandra Dingli Sophia Jefferson Jessica Mighton Hayley Summers Daniel Vijayakumar SUMMARY Johnson & Johnson (“J&J”), one of the largest, well-known organizations in the world, produces products for consumer health care and for use by medical professionals in care and diagnostics. Some of their most recognizable brands include Tylenol, Neutrogena, Listerine, Band-Aid
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Journal of Academic and Business Ethics c Johnson & Johnson: An ethical analysis of broken trust t Karen L. Stewart The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey Whiton S. Paine The Richard Stockton College of New Jersey ABSTRACT For several decades, Johnson & Johnson has been the exemplar of superb ethical behavior in light of the prompt actions it undertook during the 1982 Tylenol cyanide poisoning incident. Now several decades later, J&J’s Consumer Product Division has put the company
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Johnson & Johnson Johnson & Johnson is known around the world today as the most competitive and broadly based manufacturer of health care products. J & J also provides other services to the pharmaceutical and medical diagnostic markets. In 1887, three brothers, Robert Wood, Edward Mead, and James Wood Johnson set out to create Johnson & Johnson; which became one of the largest health care companies. The company started in Brunswick, New Jersey with only fourteen employees, today employs more
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Exxon Valdez and Tylenol Case Study DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY - DASMARIÑAS Communication Arts Department Lawrence G. Rawl, chairman and chief executive of the Exxon Corpoation was in his kitchen sipping coffee when the phone rang and received the news regarding the spilling of crude oil into the frigid waters of Prince William Sound, just outside the harbor of Valdez, Alaska. What was about to happen was the worst environmental disaster in the history of the United States. These were
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DE LA SALLE UNIVERSITY - DASMARIÑAS Communication Arts Department Lawrence G. Rawl, chairman and chief executive of the Exxon Corpoation was in his kitchen sipping coffee when the phone rang and received the news regarding the spilling of crude oil into the frigid waters of Prince William Sound, just outside the harbor of Valdez, Alaska. What was about to happen was the worst environmental disaster in the history of the United States. These were the documented facts
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Is Tylenol Really Safe 1 Is Tylenol Really Safe Pallis Wilson Professor King Devry University 2 Is Tylenol Really Safe Is Tylenol really safe? Tylenol an over-the-counter pain killer developed by McNeil Laboratories and acquired by Johnson and Johnson in the 1950’s. Its active ingredient consists of acetaminophen. Acetaminophen used to relieve headaches, muscle aches, menstrual periods, colds, sore throats, toothaches, backaches, and reactions to vaccination shots. Acetaminophen
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The last step is monitoring, evaluating and adjusting the results. Throughout the years, many big and powerful companies have gone through many unexpected situations that have cost them dearly. On one hand, we have the Tylenol case. This case is about the company Johnson
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Improving and Sustaining Business Ethics and Corporate Responsibility ! Business Ethics is emerging as one of the greatest recognized needs in business today. No other element in business life can profit so greatly for such a small investment. Ethics and corporate responsibility not only describes what a company does internally, but also shows what they did externally. If a company lack this, it can cost business dearly. In order to start looking at how to improve and sustain business ethics
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told and retold countless times. Yet, from Schweitzer’s perspective, this chronicle of leadership can easily mislead us. Is the Tylenol episode the real story of responsible leadership at Johnson & Johnson during the 1980s? What was everyone else in the company doing during this period? Were the thousands of managers, supervisors, and other employees just cranking out Tylenol capsules, Band-Aids, and other products— all the while enjoying a nice moral holiday? The answer to this question is clearly
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industrial sector. Many of these new products are perceived to be significant threats to highly profitable businesses. For example, Johnson & Johnson’s Tylenol brand of analgesics once dominated the over-the-counter market for pain relief.1 Tylenol had gained this position through a long series of marketing actions that established it as effective with low side effects. Tylenol, based on acetaminophen, was clearly perceived as much gentler than other products such as Bayer and Anacin, which were based
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