Mngt 5192 Business Ethics 2009
This year Business Ethics is comprised of the course Mngt 5192 and extra work and lectures. It is taught/supervised by Professor Robert Marks, with inputs from Associate Professor Damian Grace, Noa Erez-Rein and Emeritus Professor Dennis Turner.
- The lunchtime presentation is Here. Here (printable).
- 2009 BE Course Outline here (PDF)
2009 BE Readings CD
- The MBA Oath ("Responsible Value Creation") website is Here.
- Ethical dilemmas:
- Ethical dilemmas suggested by the 2008 class here
- Ethical dilemmas suggested by the 2005 class here
- Ethical dilemmas suggested by an earlier class here
- Ethical dilemmas that were faced by readers of a newspaper Dear Mr Ethicist column here
- Ethical decisions faced by an Australian CEO here
- A list of 14 cases to be answered in teams here
- A glossary of ethical terms here, from U Nebraska.
- Make a map of philosophy papers, here, from David Clowney.
- A Guide to Ethical Principles in Business, here, from Rutgers University.
- Recommended book: Rush Kidder, How Good People Make Tough Choices: Resolving the Dilemmas of Ethical Living,, (NY: HarperCollins, 2003).
Lectures and Cases
Week 1: Personal Ethical Dilemmas.
- Bob's overheads: OH || Printable
- Notes on Writing Down Your Reflections
- Cases:
- IGE Dilemma: Justified Inflated Costs?
- IGE Dilemma: Mates' Rates?
- IGE Dilemma: The Smooth Accounts
- IGE Dilemma: The Insurance Adjuster's Dilemma
- IGE Dilemma: Off-Piste?
- IGE Dilemma: Letting the Chips Fall?
- IGE Dilemma: Second to None?
- IGE Dilemma: Letting Jim Go
- A page of clippings on James Hardie asbestos Here. In chronological order, from June 2004 to August 2009, from the daily press.
- The 2004 NSW "Report of the Special Commission into the Medical Research and Compensation Foundation" Here
Week 2: Managerial Approach to Business Ethics
- The Homework
- Bob's overheads: OH || Printable
- Edelman's 2007 Australia Stakeholder Research Here
Edelman's 2006 Australia Stakeholder Research Here
-- Australian stakeholders' views on what makes a responsible corporation.- Cases:
Week 3: Organisational Ethics/Cross Cultural Ethics
- The Homework
- Bob's overheads: OH || Printable
- Cases:
Week 4: Organisational Ethics/Cross-Cultural Ethics.
- Early Term Feedback here and here.
- The Homework
- Bob's overheads: OH || Printable
- Bob's overheads: OH || Printable
- The ethics of Confucius, a summary
- The Hundred Schools of Thought, including Kong Zi (Confucius).
- A further discussion of Confucius' ideas
- Notes on ethics from the Indian tradition:
- Indian ethics here
- The Buddhist list of five vows (pancha sila)
- The ethics of Hinduism here, and
- Ahimsa in business here.
- Cases:
- Other links:
- Transparency International's Corruption Surveys:
- TI corruption perceptions index 2009 and
map.- TI's bribe-payers index 2008
- TI corruption perceptions index 2008
- TI corruption perceptions index 2007
- TI corruption perceptions index 2006
- TI bribe-payers index 2006
- TI corruption perceptions index 2005
- TI corruption perceptions index 2004
- TI bribe-payers index 2002, 1999
- TI corruption perceptions index 1998
Week 5: Enron, the movieWeek 6: Cross-Cultural Ethics, continued with Noa
- Bob's overheads: OH || Printable
- An Enron timeline.
Week 7: How Useful are Codes of Ethics?
- Bob's overheads: OH || Printable
- Noa on Values
- Grace: IBM and Nazi Germany, CBS News, March 27, 2002. Here.
- Amnesty on Yahoo!, Microsoft, and Google in China Here
- Tallay: Google in China: Do no evil? Amnesty International, 16 May 2008. Here
- Gettler: Is Google getting too big to 'do no evil'? SMH, Oct 14, 2009, Here.
- Donaldson: Values in tension: ethics away from home, HBR, September 1996.
- Vignettes and syndicate discussions
- Bob's overheads: OH || Printable
- Codes of Ethics:
- Why not sign the MBA Oath? Here.
- An FT article on the oath, with readers' comments. Here.
- Codes of Conduct in light of Sarbanes-Oxley, NYSE listing requirements, and the SEC, Steve Priest and Jeff Kaplan, January 2003.
- The Nature of the Relationship between Corporate Codes of Ethics and Behaviour, by M. Schwartz, JBE, 2001.
- Why Ethical Codes Constitute an Unconscionable Regression, by Michael Schwartz JBE 2000.
- From Enron's Code of Ethics
- Novartis' Responsible business practice
- Sony's compliance page.
- Johnson & Johnson's Credo
- Resources for Creating Codes:
- Creating a Code of Ethics for Your Organization, by Chris MacDonald, Ph.D.
- Resources for Writing a Code of Ethics
- Cases:
Week 11: PresentationsBob's overheads: OH || Printable
Writing aids (look at these for your essay):
Other Links:
- "Does the free market corrode moral character?" A Templeton Conversation.
- Other clips:
- Links to other Business Ethics sites
- The Wharton Business Ethics pages
Humour:
- The Daily Show on the MBA Ethics Oath
- The CEOnistas
- Personal Ethical Assistants
- Osama bin Laden, CPA
- The Lawyer's Dilemma
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Last Updated 3 August, 2009 Robert Marks, bobm@agsm.edu.au