College of Business Administration

14 January 2000 8:00 am -- 5:00 pm	*Course Overview *The Nature of Capitalism and the Corporate Enterprise Shaw/Barry Part II (Chapters 4 & 5) `Johnson Controls Mindwalk: A film for passionate thinkers DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Dunn
15 January 2000 8:00 am -- 5:00 pm	*A Critique of Capitalism Shaw/Barry Part II (Chapters 4 & 5) - `The Social Responsibility of Business is to Increase its Profits' - 'Are Corporations Inherently Wicked?' (course handout) - 'The Capitalist Threat' COMMONS GAME Anatomy of a Hostile Takeover (The Annenberg/CPB Project Ethics in America Series) LOGICAL FALLACIES DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Dunn
29 January 2000 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm	*Overview of Ethical Theory Shaw/Barry, Part 1 (Chapters 1-2 only) Trevino/Nelson, Section 1 (Chapters 1-2) Complete Guide to Ethics Management Ethics Updates (provides updates on current literature, both popular and professional, that relates to ethics) SURVEY OF ETHICAL THEORETIC APTITUDES Qualcomm Ethics Survey: Survey of Ethical Theoretic Aptitudes Score: ( -7 ) ( -6 ) ( -5 ) ( -4 ) ( -3 ) ( -2 ) ( -1 ) ( 0 ) ( +1 ) ( +2 ) ( +3 ) ( +4 ) ( +5 ) ( +6 ) ( +7 ) DEADLY DECEPTION (INFACT video) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WRITING ASSIGNMENT 1 DUE	Dunn
11 February 2000 8:00 am -- 12:00 pm	*Is It a Just World? Shaw/Barry, Chapter 9 Dunn, Craig P. `The Normative Defense for Affirmative Action' University of Rhode Island Office of Affirmative Action Piccataway Amicus Project National Coalition of Free Men Sexual Correctness: The Gender-Feminist Attack on Women Frontline program: Surviving the Bottom Line Le Guin, Ursula. `The Ones Who Walk Away from Omelas' Lou Krause (Business Enterprise Trust video) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Dunn
12 February 2000 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm	*Environmental Ethics Welford, Richard & Starkey, Richard Business and the Environment: A Reader, Chapter 13 Sagoff, Mark. Zuckerman's Dilemma: A Plea for Environmental Ethics. Hastings Center Report, September/October 1991, p. 32. Barker, Sir Ernest. Social Contract: Essays by Locke, Hume, and Rousseau. Oxford University Press (1953) [pp 22-43] Lessons from the Wreck of the Exxon Valdez... Environmentalists Pose the Greatest Danger Don't Trade Man for Nature Gail Mayville (Business Enterprise Trust video) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WRITING ASSIGNMENT 2 DUE CASE PRESENTATION OUTLINES DUE	Dunn
26 February 2000 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm	*Codes of Conduct Shaw/Barry, pp. 203-208 Trevino/Nelson, Chapter 10 and pp. 38-40, 184-185 Josephson Institute on Ethical Decision-Making Johnson & Johnson Credo Ethics at Texas Instruments ACM Codes of Conduct Ethics Toolkit School for Scandal? Compliance Programs and the U.S. Sentencing Guidelines Ingersoll-Rand Uses ‘Five Questions’ To Help Identify Ethics Issues NYNEX ('Code of Business Conduct' video) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WRITING ASSIGNMENT 3 DUE CONTRACTS DUE	Dunn
10 March 2000 8:00 am -- 12:00 pm	*Case study: Dow Corning--Silicone Breast Implants Mahlum vs Dow Chemical (West Legal Studies Video Library) Monumental Victory! Dow Corning's Settlement... Unbelievable! Ad banner on Alta Vista... http://www.breastaugusa.com/ *Business Law: Remedies Available in Civil Litigation & The Law of Torts Meiners/Ringleb/Edwards, The Legal Environment of Business (Fifth Edition), pp. 64-76; 219-250 Tort Law, Negligence, and Liability Report to the Task Force to Consider Tort Reform Proposals Common Sense Legal Reforms Act DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Dunn
11 March 2000 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm	*Case study: Privacy of Medical Records (Baldwin/Burroughs/Conley/Strong) Please read the following background material for this case analysis: Whose Looking at your Files? *Case study: Tobacco, Regulation, and Litigation (Blackman/Chen/Laysor/Mahesh/Ram) Please read the following background material for this case analysis: Tobacco manufacturer's viewpoint... Tobacco regulation lobby's viewpoint... Yet more on tobacco regulation lobby's viewpoint... (remember the General Electric video?) Truth on Trial (The Annenberg/CPB Project Ethics in America Series) *Business Law: Products Liability & The Law of Contracts Meiners/Ringleb/Edwards, The Legal Environment of Business (Fifth Edition), pp. 251-271; 287-328 Trevino/Nelson, pp. 95-98 Pinto Madness The Most Dangerous Vehicle on the Road Jury awards record-breaking $4.9 billion in GM gas tank accident High Courts and Scientific Evidence NBC and gas tank explosions DISCUSSION QUESTIONS WRITING ASSIGNMENT 4 DUE	Dunn
24 March 2000 8:00 am -- 12:00 pm	*Group Case Presentations Marketing Class overview will be provided from 11:30-12:00 pm *Case study: Qualcomm, Sold Infrastructure, and Stock Options (Barnett/Bhatmuley/Meyers/Vanhove/Winters) Please read the following background material for this case analysis: Politics and Silicon Valley Qualcomm Litigation *Case study: wethepeople.com--Corporations and the Government (Fleck/Hover/Hsu/Sharp) *Case study: Ethics of Recruiting Foreign Workers (Albers/Henry/Shaw/Williams) *Case study: Outrage on the Web (Alster/Borrus/Green/Yang) DISCUSSION QUESTIONS	Class Participants
25 March 2000 1:00 pm -- 5:00 pm	*The Meaning of Work What Comes Next? 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 [OPTIONAL]	Dunn
08 April 2000	TERM PAPERS DUE (Papers will not be accepted without SELF-EVALUATION form attached)