World’s fifth largest defence corporation Raytheon is hit with plagiarism charges and the originator is none other Chairman and CEO Bill Swanson himself. ‘Unwritten rules of Management’, a management guide apparently written by Swanson, includes some passages lift ed directly from WJ King’s ‘Written Unwritten Rules of Engineering’. The board of Raytheon is not firing Swanson due to his excellent track record, but has reportedly cancelled his annual salary and stock option increments. Raytheon is the manufacturer of the famed Tomahawk cruise missiles used by the US defence forces; the projectile became very popular after its success vis-àvis Iraq’s ‘Scud’ missiles in the 1991 Gulf war.
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Source IIPM-Editorial,2006
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