College of Business Administration

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Seminar in Business Ethics and Social Institutions

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Class Schedule:


FINAL EXAMINATION

04 June 2001 Course Overview Dunn
06 June 2001 Course Overview
The nature of capitalism and the corporate enterprise

Weiss, Chapter 4
Dienhart, Chapter 1

`Johnson Controls'

Dienhart, Chapter 7, CASE (pp. 338-353)

COMMONS GAME

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Dunn
11 June 2001 A Critique of Capitalism

Dienhart, Chapter 4, 5
Newton & Ford, Issue 1

- `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

Shannon Tyler ShaTyl@aol.com
Tiffany Denhardt tiffany_denhardt@yahoo.com
13 June 2001 Overview of Ethical Theory

Weiss, Chapter 3
Deinhart, Chapters 2, 3
Newton & Ford, Issues 3, 12

Ethics Frameworks Definitions
Complete Guide to Ethics Management
Ethics Updates (provides updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics)
Le Guin, Ursula. `The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas'

SURVEY OF ETHICAL THEORETIC APTITUDES

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

WRITING ASSIGNMENT 1 Due

Dunn
18 June 2001 Rights and Duties of Employees

Weiss, Chapter 6
Newton & Ford, Issue 10

The National Employee Rights Institute
Restriction on Employement-at-Will

CONTRACTS & APPLICATION PROJECT
PROPOSALS DUE

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Kendra Draughn kendradraughn@email.msn.com
Jane Leonard jane.leonard@titan.com
Douglas Wahl wahld@cnrc.navy.mil
John Moyer lt-john.s.moyer@cnet.navy.mil
Takeshi Nakazawa lt-takeshi.nakazawa@cnet.navy.mil
Jeffrey Barbee jbarbee@burnham.org
20 June 2001 Rights and Duties of Consumers

Weiss, Chapter 5
Newton & Ford, Issue 6

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

WRITING ASSIGNMENT 2 Due

Andy Lee andylee@aznet.net
Chris Cage christopher.r.cage@saic.com
Paxton Ebright cpebright@hotmail.com
Joe Boeckman jfboeckman@aol.com
Greg Terry gwave@san.rr.com
Jon Moretty jmoretty@san.rr.com
25 June 2001 International Business, Domination and Exploitation

Weiss, Chapter 7
Newton & Ford, Issues 13, 14

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

NIKE CASE SUMMARY

David Radk daveradke@hotmail.com
Wei Mu mu_wei@hotmail.com
Anders Svensson anders575@yahoo.com
Claus Rieger clausrieger@hotmail.com4
Kona Bridges konabridges@yahoo.com
July Bocabeille Julyboc@hotmail.com
27 June 2001 Rights and Duties of Nature

Weiss, Chapter 8
Newton & Ford, Issues 18, 19

What's Your Share of the Commons?

The Hidden Commons

Lessons from the Wreck of the Exxon Valdez...
Environmentalists Pose the Greatest Danger
Don't Trade Man for Nature

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

WRITING ASSIGNMENT 3 Due

Dave Hackett DGHackett@hotmail.com
Gretchen Kozub gpkozub@home.com
Grant Wunschel grantwun@pacbell.net
Kathy Ensign knensign@aol.com
Pamela Hooper pjhooper@sundt.com
Jennifer Sturak jsturak@home.com Grant Kiehl glkiehl@aol.com
02 July 2001 Codes of Conduct: Uses and Abuses

Newton & Ford, Issue 2

Remember to bring a copy of your company's code of conduct with you to class...

Johnson & Johnson Credo
Ethics Toolkit
Ethics at Texas Instruments
ACM Codes of Conduct
Compliance Programs and the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines
Josephson Institute on Ethical Decision-Making
School for Scandal?
Ingersoll-Rand Uses ‘Five Questions’ To Help Identify Ethics Issues

NYNEX ('Code of Business Conduct' video)

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

Scott Gunther sgunther41@hotmail.com
Bobby Linder linder.bobby@chtwp.nasni.navy.mil
Kara McDermottkaramcd@pacbell.net
c_chi@excite.com
04 July 2001 Holiday -- Independence Day

WRITING ASSIGNMENT 4 Due

09 July 2001 CASE/APPLICATION
PROJECT
PRESENTATIONS

Obsolete Pesticides Audit

*[project name here]*
[presenters' names here]
11 July 2001 The Meaning of Work

What Comes Next?
The World According to Me
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)

DISCUSSION QUESTIONS

WRITING ASSIGNMENT 5 Due

TERM PAPERS DUE

(Papers will not be accepted without SELF-EVALUATION form attached)

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