Business Ethics 2006

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The Integrative Program, Business Ethics, is an IP in the full-time MBA at the AGSM. It is taught by Associate Professor Damian Grace and Professor Robert Marks, with assitance from Noa Erez-Rein and Emeritus Professor Dennis Turner.

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• 2006 Course Outline here (PDF)
  2006 Readings Package

• Ethical dilemmas:
  • 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.

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Lectures and Cases

Monday: Personal Ethical Dilemmas.

• Bob's overheads: OH || Printable
• Damian's overheads: here.

• 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

Tuesday: Managerial Approach to Business Ethics

• Noa's overheads: here.
• Bob's overheads: OH || Printable
• Damian's overheads: here.

• Cases:
  • From Enron's Code of Ethics
    • For more detail.
  • Case: Harry Stonecipher
  • Case: Merck
  • Case: The Ford Pinto
  • Damian's summary of Jackall's The Moral Maze

Wednesday: Organisational Ethics

• Guest: Mr Peter Houston, NSW RTA.

• Bob's overheads: OH || Printable
• Cases:
  • Google in China 1
  • Google in China 2
  • Steidlmeier on "Gift giving, bribery and corruption"

Thursday: Cross-Cultural Ethics.

• Damian's overheads: here.
• Debrief, and Notes on Confucian ethics 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:
  • The ethics of Hinduism here, and
  • Ahimsa in business here.

• Cases:
  • Case: Classic Containers
  • Case: SEA Inc.
  • Case: The Kader fire
  • Case: BHP Ok Tedi (PDF)

• Other links:
• Transparency International's Corruption Surveys
  • TI corruption index 2005
  • TI corruption index 2004
  • TI bribe-payers index 2002, 1999
  • TI corruption index 1998

Friday: Presentations

1. Supply Chain Management -- GM and Nike (Ching Ling, Geetha, Nicole, Jill)
2. Paying Whistleblowers? (Andi, Gladys, Shelby, Vincent, Lucia)
3. British Money in Asian Pulp and Paper (Melissa, Elie, Tom, Matt)
4. Oil Concessions in Angola (Andrea, Justine, Sean, Olivier, Germán)
5. A CEO -- a Chief Ethics Officer? (Srishti, Bill, Kaori, Fiona)
6. Fair Trade (Paul, Nancy, Suzanne)
7. Philip Morris (Emily, Pablo, Scott)

More Cases:

• Case: Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (PDF)
• Case: A Hippocratic Oath for Business? (PDF)

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Writing aids (look at these for your essay):

• Issues / Actors / Processes (PDF)
• Writing Well (PDF)
• Rules to Write Good

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Other Links:

• Other clips:
  • Ad: "CO2: They call it pollution, we call it life"

• Links to other Business Ethics sites
  • The 2005 BE web page.

Humour:

• The CEOnistas
• Personal Ethical Assistants
• Osama bin Laden, CPA
• The Lawyer's Dilemma

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Last Updated 21 September, 2006

Robert Marks, bobm@agsm.edu.au