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Should Harry Stonecipher Been Forced to Resign?

Harry Stonecipher, past CEO of Boeing, is credited with writing Boeing’s policy and publicly highlighting it as a basis of his leadership. Yet, on March 6 2006, Boeing rightfully asked Stonecipher to resign as president and CEO of Boeing because of an inappropriate association with a female executive.

Stonecipher’s conduct was not helpful in Boeing’s attempt to reestablish its reputation and ethics standards. Stonecipher’s extra-marital affair has, if not already, the potential to degrade working relationships and the moral of the corporation’s staff. Stonecipher may have profited personally from this relationship. However, it may have created distractions in the workplace and offended co-workers resulting in a loss of respect for their employer. He had a responsibility as a CEO to make decisions based on Boeing’s ethics policy, a policy that he was credited with writing.

Although Boeing’s code of......

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