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Business, Ethics and Society

REL/MGT 228
Schedule
Date Topics Reading Assignment
Religious Perspectives on Business Ethics (RPBE),
Orientation to online
pp. 1-31. 1) Discussion Board: Ford Pinto
learning
Week 1 Definition of Morality: 2) Case Analysis: Firestone Recall
Orientation to course
T 1/5 – T 1/12 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/morality-definition/
Final date to submit for credit M
Basics of Morality and
Case Study: The Ford Pinto 1/11
Ethics
Case Study: Firestone's Tire Recall
RPBE, pp. 35-76.
1) Discussion Board: Blood for
Religion and Morality:
Sale
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/religion-morality/
Religion and Morality
Week 2
2) Case Analysis: Selling Infant
T 1/12 – T Intrinsic vs. Extrinsic Value:
The Common Good Formula Abroad
1/19 http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/value-intrinsic-
extrinsic/
Final date to submit for credit M
1/18
Case Study: Blood For Sale
Case Study: Selling Infant Formula Abroad
RPBE, pp. 77-110.
1) Discussion Board: Housing
Allowance
Human Dignity Communitarianism:
Week 3
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/communitarianism/
T 1/19 – T 2) Case Analysis: New Protocol
Rights and
1/26
Responsibilities Case Study: The Housing Allowance
Final date to submit for credit M
Case Study: New Protocol: How Drug's Rebirth as
1/25
Treatment of Cancer Fueled Price Rises
1) Discussion Board: Speaking
Out About Malt

RPBE, pp. 111-147. 2) Case Study #1: Choose one of


the following three cases found
Virtue Ethics: in Course Documents for this
http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/ethics-virtue/ week and apply thoroughly a
Virtue Ethics theory of ethical reasoning to
Week 4
Conscience: the case you choose.
T 1/26 – T 2/2
Conscience http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/14474a.htm Case Study: Chrysler and Gao
Feng: Corporate
Movie: "The Smartest Guys in the Room" Case Study: Battling Over Bottled
Water
Case Study: Speaking Out About Malt (Shaw) Case Study: Internet Parasite

Final date to submit for credit M


2/1
RPBE, pp. 149-178.
1) Discussion Board: Hot Coffee at
Marjorie Kelly, "The Divine Right of Capital," Tikkun
McDonald's
15, no. 4 (Jl-Ag 2000): 33-39. (At Blackboard site
Casuistry
under "Course Documents.")
Week 5 2) Case Analysis: AIDS in the
T 2/2 – T 2/9 Corporate Social Workplace
Casuistry: http://etext.lib.virginia.edu/cgi-
Responsibility
local/DHI/dhi.cgi?id=dv1-35
Final date to submit for credit M
2/8
Case Study: Hot Coffee at McDonald's
Case Study: AIDS in the Workplace
RPBE, pp. 179-209.
1) Discussion Board: Finger Hut’s
Price Strategy
Distributive Justice:
Economic Justice http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/justice-distributive/
Week 6 2) Case Analysis: Global Profits,
The Natural Law:
T 2/9 – T 2/16 Global Headaches
Natural Law http://plato.stanford.edu/entries/natural-law-ethics/
Final date to submit for credit M
Case Study: Fingerhut's Price Strategy
2/15
Case Study: Global Profits, Global Headaches
RPBE, 211-234. 1) Discussion Board: Merck and
Company
Corporate Codes of Ethics
http://www.orelle.com/Citizen/citizen.htm 2) Case Study #2: Choose one of
http://www.ti.com/corp/docs/company/citizen/ethics/ the following three cases found
index.shtm in Course Documents for this
Corporate Codes of http://www.marathon.com/Investor_Center/Corporat week and compare and
Week 7 Ethics e_Governance contrast two theories of ethical
T 2/16 – T http://www.buckman.com/eng/fundamentals.html reasoning as they apply to the
2/23 Kohlberg's Theory of http://www.halliburton.com/Default.aspx? case you choose.
Moral Development navid=344&pageid=731 Case Study: Web Porn at Work
http://eis.jpl.nasa.gov/ethics/ Case Study: Shell Oil in Nigeria
Case Study: She Snoops to
Kohlberg's Stages of Moral Development: Conquer
http://faculty.plts.edu/gpence/html/kohlberg.htm
Final date to submit for credit M
Case Study: Merck & Co., Inc. 2/22
1) Discussion Board: Sniffing Glue
RPBE, pp. 237-276.
Could Snuff Profits
Character Teleology:
Week 8 2) Case Analysis: Hazardous
http://www.newadvent.org/cathen/03432a.htm
T 2/23 – T 3/2 Homes in Herculaneum
Teleology
Case Study: Sniffing Glue Could Snuff Profits
Final date to submit for credit M
Case Study; Hazardous Homes in Herculaneum
3/1
1) Discussion Board: The Wreck
of the Exxon Valdez
RPBE, pp. 277-318.
Week 9 Environmental 2) Case Analysis: Consenting to
T 3/2 – T 3/9 Stewardship Case Study: The Wreck of the Exxon Valdez Sexual Harassment
Case Study: Consenting to Sexual Harassment
Final date to submit for credit M
3/8
1) Discussion Board: The Oil Rig
Final date to submit for credit M
3/15

2) Case Study #3: Choose one of


the following three cases found
RPBE, pp. 319-348. in Course Documents for this
Labor Issues week and support and defend
Week 10 a position in relation to the
Case Study: The Oil Rig (Werhane)
T 3/9 – 3/16 case you choose.
Global Capitalism Case Study: Mitsubishi: Sexual Harassment in the
Workplace Case Study: Changing Jobs and
Changing Loyalties
Case Study: Protecting the
Unborn at Work
Case Study: AIDS and Life Saving
Medicine

Final date to submit for credit T


3/16

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