Your request for a report on ethical issues in my field of study has initiated an interesting body of material. Within the past year, several ethical issues have been raised in the world of business and management. However, in the current year more ethical issues have been raised including; technological innovation especially in the nuclear and oil industries, disaster management in terms of response and preparedness, failed leadership and professionalism in management and the concern of the occupational health and safety of personnel. It is important to be aware of these issues as they could affect our exposure to management. While I believe that we have an obligation to protect the interests of the shareholders and the integrity of the company, we cannot be so conservative as to limit the interests of the personnel and external environment. These issues are linked to each other in a fascinating manner and associated with the prevalent British Petroleum (BP) Gulf oil spill. A Variety of Issues Technological Innovation From the manufacturing, telecommunication, automobile industries and all sectors of the business world to general equipment and appliances for home use, technological development and innovation have been on the increase, yet there are still concerns for reliability of the same especially for the nuclear, manufacturing and heavy end industries. For example, the recent occurrence of the BP gulf oil spill is said to have been caused by the explosion of the offshore drilling rig which was semi-submersible in the Gulf of Mexico just after a blow out had been experienced. While many industry experts believe that this incident is due to the unethical reliance on Blow out Preventers (BOP) that technology industry and academic experts have warned against, others argue that it is attributed to the failure of IT especially the multiple control mechanisms, systems, processes and equipment. None disagree on the fact that technological application in the industry has to be up-to-date and the human performance improved (Meyer and Brysac 22). Disaster management Governments, stakeholders and the public are concerned about the disaster management techniques of BP Oil Company. This is mostly in relation to preparedness and its response initiatives to the Gulf oil spill. Although legally speaking the rig involved in the explosion has been found to belong to Trasocean while the well cementing had been done by Halliburton, analysts, regulators and the public feel that BP had an ethical responsibility of ensuring effective disaster preparedness (Fairley 1). Analysts and experts illustrate clearly that BP needed to have effective disaster management in place since it is involved in an industry that has potential of experiencing hazards such as oil spills. Furthermore, many questions are being raised regarding the environmental protection of BP since it is involved in components that pose a threat to the environment especially on water, because of the impact it has on marine life. Analysts believe that BP has acted on ignorance of the regulations and the risk it poses to the environment. Even as government and regulators are looking for ways to avert the impact of the oil spill, they cannot stop to question the lagged manner in which BP has responded to the issue. As Fairley (2) and other analysts believe, it is the pressure of the media that has caused BP to be con