College of Business Administration

Seminar in Business Ethics and Social Institutions

Class Schedule:

31 August 1999	Course Overview
07 September 1999	Course Overview The nature of capitalism and the corporate enterprise Shaw/Barry Part II (Chapters 4 & 5) `Johnson Controls' COMMONS GAME DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Dunn
14 September 1999	A Critique of Capitalism - `The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits' - 'Are Corporations Inherently Wicked?' (course handout) - 'The Capitalist Threat' Anatomy of a Hostile Takeover (The Annenberg/CPB Project Ethics in America Series) COMMONS GAME feedback DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Dunn
21 September 1999	Overview of Ethical Theory Shaw/Barry, Part 1 (Chapters 1-2 only) Trevino/Nelson, Section 1 (Chapters 1-2)	Dunn
28 September 1999	Rights and Duties of Employees Shaw/Barry, Chapter 2, case 2.2, plus handouts CONTRACTS & APPLICATION PROJECT PROPOSALS DUE DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Vince Hamashin (hamashin@tpims.org) James McAllister (jmcallis@aznet.net) Don Miners (dminers@chugaibio.com)
05 October 1999	Affirmative Action Shaw/Barry, Chapter 9 http://www.uri.edu/affirmative_action/laws.htm http://www.auaa.org/piscat/index.html http://www.ncfm.org/afiract.htm http://www.zetetics.com/mac/affirm.htm 'The Normative Defense for Affirmative Action' DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Kathleen Bute (kbutexpw@co.san-diego.ca.us) Rick May (Richard@purepulse.com)
12 October 1999	Rights and Duties of Consumers Shaw/Barry, Chapter 10 Trevino/Nelson, Pages 63-67, 181-189 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Ivan Cervantes (ivan.c@usa.net) Craig Dunn (craig.dunn@sdsu.edu)
19 October 1999	International Business, Domination and Exploitation Shaw/Barry, Case 1.1 (p. 25) Trevino/Nelson, Chapter 11 DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Diane De Moss (diane.demoss@sabre.com) Pier Parisio (parisio@san.rr.com)
26 October 1999	Rights and Duties of Nature Shaw/Barry, Chapter 11, plus handouts Lessons from the Wreck of the Exxon Valdez... Environmentalists Pose the Greatest Danger Don't Trade Man for Nature DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Erik Miller (erikmiller@home.com) Lisa Schneider (needleml@flash.net)
02 November 1999	Codes of Conduct: Uses and Abuses Shaw/Barry, pp. 203-208 Trevino/Nelson, Chapter 10 and pp. 38-40, 184-185 Remember to bring a copy of your company's code of conduct with you to class... Guest Speaker: Lynn Bottom, Vice President, Strategic Employee Ethical Dynamics (S.E.E.D.) (Phone: 858-456-6292) http://www.johnsonandjohnson.com/who_is_jnj/cr_index.html http://www.mapnp.org/library/ethics/ethxgde.htm http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/citizen/ethics/index.shtml http://www.acm.org/constitution/code.html DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Cindy Flood (cindy.flood@bowne.com) Diana Foster (dfoster@aznet.net)
09 November 1999	Professional Ethics: Do 'They' Apply to Management? Shaw/Barry, Chapter 8 Trevino/Nelson, Chapters 6 & 7 (Skim the chapters, read the cases & questions) Also read ACM Codes of Conduct DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Christian Fassari (SheydaWynne@cs.com) Rob Good (robgood@hotmail.com)
16 November 1999	Corporate Social Performance: Theory and Practice Shaw & Barry, pp. 195-202; 227-229 Trevino/Nelson, Case 2.1 Also read 'Toward Improving Corporate Social Performance' (Donna Wood), and 'Going Green at the Vermont Ice Cream Machine' (both class handouts) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Michael Kudrac (m_kudrac@hotmail.com) Bob Lesnick (boblesnick@yahoo.com) Jeff Stewart (jeff_h_stewart@usa.net)
23 November 1999	PRESENTATION PREPARATION
30 November 1999	CASE/APPLICATION PROJECT PRESENTATIONS	*[project name here]* [presenters' names here] *[project name here]* [presenters' names here] *[project name here]* [presenters' names here]
07 December 1999	The Meaning of Work The Hungry Spirit: Beyond Capitalism..., Chapters 8 & 9 - Taylor, Fredrick. `The Principles of Scientific Management' - Terkel, Studs. 'Working'. (Chapter titles: Carl Murray Bates, Walter Lundquist, Donna Murray, Roberta Victor, Nora Watson) TERM PAPERS DUE	Dunn
14 December 1999	FINAL EXAMINATION

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