Business Ethics -- Summer Semester, 2010
Metropolitan State University
First Paper Assignment (Due June 22)
Second Paper Assignment (Due July 27)
Paper writing guides:
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Date |
Topic |
Reading |
Discussion projects (and links to explanatory handouts) |
May 11 |
Introductory Session |
None |
Discussion project: identifying ethical issues; Handout: Four perspectives on Business Behavior; Handout: Notes on Ethics and Markets; Introduction Sheet |
May 18 |
The Meaning of Work: from the Protestant ethic to bureaucracy |
HW, Chapter 1; MM, Intro and Chapters 1 and 2 |
Discussion project on market defects |
May 25 |
What sort of game is business? |
HW, pp. 55-69; MM, Chapter 3; N.Y.Times article on mortgage default; |
Jackall's 'Rules in Use' |
June 1 |
Fairness, justice and getting ahead |
HW, Chapter 6; MM, Chapter 4 |
First Paper Assignment; Notes on Rawls' Theory of Justice; |
June 8 |
Stakeholders, stockholders and social responsibility |
HW, Chapter 7 |
Applying Friedman's Free-Market philosophy and Stakeholder Theory |
June 15 |
Ethical treatment of employees |
HW, Chapter 2; review MM, Chapters 3 and 4 |
Discusssion project on employee rights |
June 22 |
Globalization and ethics across cultures |
HW, Chapter 12; First paper due |
Possible exam questions; In class movie: "China Blue" |
June 29 |
Ethics and information technology |
HW, Chapter 8; First exam |
Possible exam questions |
July 6 |
Whistleblowing and the managerial conscience |
HW, Chapter 11; MM, Chapter 5 |
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July 13 |
Consumer safety and product liability |
HW, Chapter 10; MM, Chapter 6 |
Discussion project on Product Liability |
July 20 |
Environmental hazards |
HW, Chapter 13; MM, Chapter 7 |
Discussion Project on Business and the Environment; We watched some video of Ray Anderson, CEO of Interface Carpet: http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aCGTD5Bn1m0 http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=OUG4JXE6K4A http://www.youtube.com/watch?v=iP9QF_lBOyA BTW some of this material is from the film, "The Corporation." The whole thing is online here: http://freedocumentaries.org/film.php?id=102; |
July 27 |
Finance and Accounting |
HW, Chapter 5; MM 111-117 (The story of Brady); Second paper due |
In class movie: "Enron: The Smartest Guys in the Room" (available from Netflix and our library) |
August 3 |
Lying, bluffing, and selling |
HW, Chapter 9; Review MM Chapters 6 and 7 |
Possible exam questions |
August 10 |
The Good Life and the Price of Success |
HW, Chapter 4; MM, Chapter 8; Second exam |