Responsible Corporations? BAE Systems
22 mins, 2012 Multinational BAE Systems make everything from aircraft to missiles and big profits.They make big profits,create skilled jobs and use cutting edge technology. But is it in an immoral business? GLOBAL BUSINESS: Originally formed from a merger of British aviation companies in the 1970s, BAE was originally called British Aerospace. Now it’s ditched… Read more »
Responsible Corporations? Apple, News Corp & Google
25 mins, 2012 This film looks at three famous companies in the world of media and technology and explores the ethics of their approach to business. APPLE has amazing products, but they’re made by people in China who work long hours for small wages. Some workers have even killed themselves: the “Foxconn Suicides”. Apple now… Read more »
Recruitment & Selection
49 mins, 2012 PART 1: An Essential Guide Recruitment should be seen not just as a process of filling vacancies, but as a part of workforce planning generally. The first stage in filling a vacancy is to define the vacancy – the job description. The selection procedure varies from simply interviewing people to complex assessment processes… Read more »
Responsible Corporations?
23 mins, 2010 Multinational companies are aggressively marketing cigarettes to young people in developing countries, with tragic social costs. This film explores the case of Indonesia – the third largest market for tobacco products in the world. HUMAN COSTS: “If I’d known I’d get this disease I would have quit a long time ago.” Ujang… Read more »
Refugees And Migrants
50 mins, 2007 The plight of refugees and migrants is a major global problem. Two films provide dramatic case study material from the US and Bangladesh. Film 1: BANGLADESH In the early 1990s, members of the Rohingyas people fled persecution in Burma to seek a new life in neighbouring Bangladesh. But instead they found government… Read more »
Recruitment In Action
27 mins, 1995 How does a firm recruit a new member of staff? This is a blow-by-blow account, from specifying the job, to the interviews and final selection. Dream Cruises advertise for a new marketing assistant. Applications flood in and they draw up a short list. Spelling and presentation of CVs are key issues. Three… Read more »
Responsible Corporations? Dieselgate
36 mins, 2018 ‘Dieselgate’ is the scandal that made world headlines when, in the USA in 2015, Volkswagen were discovered to have installed defeat devices in the pollution control software of their diesel cars. Although the cars conformed to emission standards in laboratory tests, on the road, in actual driving conditions, emissions were off the… Read more »
Systems At Dickens World
25 mins, 2008 Behind the Victorian façade of the Dickens World theme park state-of-the-art systems are at work. You might not see them, but without them Dickens World wouldn’t have a business. This film explains how the systems work and what they do. TICKETS: It all starts at the front desk with a point of… Read more »
Sweet Misery: Aspartame
30 mins, 2007 Is the artificial sweetener aspartame a danger to our heath? This US film argues the case that the process by which this widely used food additive became approved by food safety bodies was dangerously flawed. Aspartame, better known under its brand name Nutrasweet, and found in many well-known snack foods and soft… Read more »
Sustainable Development
34 mins, 2006 What’s meant by sustainable development? This film offers a stark account of the dangers threatening the planet and explores what we can do to avoid disaster. INDUSTRIALISATION: The problems started about 250 years ago with the industrial revolution. First coal, then oil, fuelled a world of mass production, mass consumption – and… Read more »
Systems In Local Government
35 mins, 2006 Local councils are often huge organisations, providing a wide variety of services, from running libraries to keeping the roads free of ice. Critical to their operation are information systems. This film visits Cornwall County Council to explore how five of these information systems work. ADMINISTRATION: Councils are vast bureaucracies generating mountains of… Read more »
Systems In A Theatre
27 mins, 2005 A star from Eastenders, Toyah and a load of corny gags – the pantomime at the Marlowe Theatre has the lot. But how do their information systems work? TICKETING: The computerised ticketing system reserves you a seat and even warns if there’s bad language in the show. But the real prize is… Read more »