Business Ethics 2007
The Integrative Program, Business Ethics, is a half-unit course in the full-time MBA at the AGSM. It is taught 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).
- 2007 Course Outline here (PDF)
2007 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.
Lectures and Cases
Day 1: Personal Ethical Dilemmas.
- Bob's overheads: OH || Printable
- Notes on Writing Down Your Reflections
- Cases:
Day 2: Managerial Approach to Business Ethics
- Edelman's 2006 Australia Stakeholder Research Here
Australian stakeholders' views on what makes a responsible corporation.- Cases:
Day 3: Organisational Ethics
Day 4: Cross-Cultural Ethics.
- 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:
- Cases:
- Other links:
- Transparency International's Corruption Surveys:
Day 5: Presentations
The choice of topics for the final 2000-word essay (individual) due by 4pm on Friday, October 5th, see here.
See Notes on Essay Writing here.More Cases:
- Case: Vermont Businesses for Social Responsibility (PDF)
- Case: A Hippocratic Oath for Business? (PDF)
Writing aids (look at these for your essay):
Other Links:
- Other clips:
- Links to other Business Ethics sites
Humour:
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Last Updated 12 September, 2007 Robert Marks, bobm@agsm.edu.au