Motorola was founded in 1928 as the Galvin Manufacturing Company and changed to its current name during the 1940's. Motorola is still headed by a member of the Galvin family. They started in the radio business and through the years moved into other segments. In 2000, Motorola was a world leader in wireless communication, semiconductors, and advanced electronic systems, components and services. It main business segments included cellular phones personal communication products, automotive products, two-way radios, paging and data communications devices, computers, and countless other products. Motorola has experienced explosive growth and now has more than 120,000 employees located in nearly 100 countries around the world. Motorola is known the world over for its commitment to corporate ethics and the company's code of conduct is considered by many to be the model you want your company measured against.
Given the closeness between Motorola's ethics policy and it business practices, this assessment will review Motorola's top management's commitment to ethics, discuss Motorola's Ethics Renewal Process (MERP), examine issues that arise from the company's ethics policy, and evaluate the overall effectiveness. The Study concludes with recommendations that will strengthen Motorola's ethics policy and ensure that the company remains committed to the high ethical standards that it strives to achieve.
.
Motorola Culture.
Motorola culture is based on the Code of Business Conduct. There are two core items to Motorola's Code of Business Conduct. The first item is constant respect for people and the second is uncompromising integrity. These two principles not only serve as the centerpiece of the company's ethics policy, they are also intended to be used by Motorolans in their daily interactions no matter where or what they are doing. The code of business conduct was the vision of founder Paul Galvin, and the personal code that he lived by.
The Motorola name then became the brand name for all of GMC's products. The 1940's saw many changes for Motorola. ... That same year, the Motorola trademark became so popular that Galvin Manufacturing Corporation became Motorola, Inc. ... The technology Motorola used was an analog system. ... Motorola had lost time and money for numerous reasons. ...
Motorola, Inc. ... Motorola is also concerned about environmental issues creating a product designed to minimize their negative impact on the environment is what drives the Green Design Advisor concept, development of high-tech, low impact products that conserve natural resources, contain benign materials, require low amounts of energy and are easily recycled is the goal. To help design for the environment, Motorola collaborated with the University of Erlangen in Germany to develop software that enables product designers to compare different materials and processes that could ...
After reviewing the case at Motorola, we can clearly see that Robert Galvin is concerned with employee training. ... Motorola empowers its employees, hence allowing them to fix problems as they occur instead of going through a whole lot of red tape. ... To be the "Top dogaE Motorola would have to have to educate its work force in the latest technology. ... Employee training is an investment, an investment that will determine the future of Motorola in times to come. ... He would have to sacrifice some of Motorola"s short-term profit ability to poise the company with a even stable future....
Motorola's V70 cellular phone was the first to use a rotating cover and circular display. ... By 1959, Motorola was a leader in military communication and has built its first semiconductor. ... Industrial Motorola Life Sciences introduced its first commercial eSensor DNA Biochip Array. ... Motorola developed a network of communications systems designed specifically for utility companies. ... Understanding the complex and demanding pressures rail operators face daily, Motorola provides specific solutions (from shipment tracking to asset monitoring) that meet the operational c...
Business anthropologists have been studying the corporate world for years, on such varied topics as how to encourage more creativity or how best to integrate multicultural learning techniques into an organization's training program. Most anthropologists who work in the corporate environment do not use the title of anthropologist. ... The article then gave an account of one anthropologist's experience in the corporate environment. ... Another instance, Motorola Inc. teaches anthropological analysis at its Motorola University; the anthropologists are credited with pointing out that ...
This focus on basic skills is taking much needed time and attention away from multicultural education, and the teaching of social justice skills. ... Second, the multicultural curriculum should be provided to all districts and schools by the state. ... A growth-based accountability system would provide incentives for teachers to provide a multicultural education that would challenge all of their students, every year, regardless of their achievement level (Haretos, 2005), unlike an achievement based system which encourages teachers to leave behind the imperfect or less shiny "blueberries&q...
A multicultural environment involves people with a diversity of backgrounds. A school environment should be prepared for this kind of environments in order to offer equal opportunities to every student to reach all their academically potential and success. ... Anyways, racism has become one of the biggest issues in an environment with multicultural diversity. Racism has affected environments, society, communities and even education. ... We need to learn to accept diversity, multiculturalism because we live in a multicultural society/country and we have to deal with it every day. ...
"Motorola will remain a licensee of Android and Android will remain open. We will run Motorola as a separate business," claimed Page (Bradley). ... The acquisition of Motorola tempers this loss by expanding Google's arsenal of patents. ... Now, Motorola will have the help of Google's finances to produce even more innovative phones. ... Eventually, analysts believe the Motorola name will disappear from phones. ...
Business Analysis: Motorola Mission Motorola mission is to provide integrated communications and embedded electronic solutions to the customer. ... Motorola's debt-to-equity ratio is improved to 10.1% in 1999 from 26.8% in 1998 (Motorola, 2000, p. 18-19). ... The ratio for Motorola is at 68 times, compared to Motorola's peer group at 62 times (Multex.com, 2000, p. 3). ... This happened to Motorola on the Iridium project. ... The government is also a threat to Motorola. ...
