Business Ethics Electronic Filing Cabinet

Class Exercises

• Week One Business Ethics In Class Exercise
• Plato: The Ring of Gyges
• Cicero: Famine at Rhodes
• The Munchie Free Market Exchange Exercise
• Max-A-Grade an in class exercise
• Hobbes: The Fool
• Jimmy Two-Can Exercise
• Cicero: The Fishing Villa
• Cicero: The Unsanitary House
• Padding the Expense Report: Friendship, loyalty and integrity

    On Virtues and the Marketplace:

• Atlantic Monthly, The Conscientious Investor
• Pedersen, Corporate Social Responsibility in Supply Chains
• Panagariya, The Miracles of Globalization
• Linton, Partnering in coffee between Business and NGO for sustainability
• Johnson, Corporate Soul Craft in the age of brutal markets
• Chewing, When a boss asks to do something unethical
• Robins, The Triple Bottom Line
• Greenwood, The importance of stakeholders
• Smith, Friedman, and self-interest in ethical society
• Maitland, Virtuous markets: the market as school of the virtues
• Shaw,  Sources of virtue: the market and the community.
• Beck Dudley Excellence and Ethics Book Review
• Nesteruk Excellence and Ethics Book Review
• Moberg, The big five and organizational virtue
• Ewin, The virtues appropriate to business.
• James Rule, Markets, in Their Place
• Horvath, Excellence versus Effectiveness
• Solomon, The moral psychology of business: care and compassion in the corporation
• Shonsheck,  Business friends: Aristotle, Kant, and other management theorists on the practice of networking.
• Lee,  How the marketplace fosters business honesty
• John Haughey, The Loyalty Effect
• John Kay, Honesty is not the best policy
• Ethics and values in advertising: two case studies
• Where Cash is King
• What is this thing called "reputation"?.
• Open the doors, tell the truth
• The ups and downs of honor
• The normative theories of business ethics: a guide for the perplexed
• The importance of stakeholders according to business leaders
• Getting real: stakeholder theory, managerial practice, and the general irrelevance of fiduciary duties owed to shareholders
• Tim Fort, Business as Mediating Institution
• Linda DeLeon, Ethics and Entrepreneurship
• Vernon Smith, The Two Faces of Adam Smith
• Peter Vanderschraaf, Hume's Game Theoretic Business Ethics
• John Ryan, Interdependence a Meditation on Human Economics
• The search for community in the workplace
• ThinkTank PBS discussion of Hayek's Views
• Walsh, America learns to hate Wal-Mart.
• Is Wal-Mart Too Powerful?
• America's Debate -> WalMart
• Brentkert, Marketing to inner-city blacks: PowerMaster and moral responsibility.
• Laczniak Distributive justice, Catholic social teaching, and the moral responsibility of marketers.
• Karpatkin,Toward a fair and just marketplace for all consumers: the responsibilities of marketing professionals
• Jiwei: Justice, freedom, and the moral bounds of capitalism.
• Gibson, Excuses, excuses: moral slippage in the workplace.
• Undergraduate student cheating in the fields of business and economics
• Compassion as a means to freedom
• Wal Mart Webography

    International Business Ethics:

• Schlegelmilch, The influence of country and industry on ethical perceptions of senior executives in the U.S. and Europe.
• Across the Board , Fast and loose in Xanadu.
• Hotchkiss, The sleeping dog stirs: new signs of life in efforts to end corruption in international business.
• Berenbeim, Can multinational businesses agree on how to act ethically?.
• Dinh, Shades of gray in the global marketplace.
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    Cooperation and Collaboration:

• Van Slyke, Resolve conflict, boost creativity.
• Aibel, Mediation works . . . opting for interest-based solutions to a range of business needs
• Hill, Non-adversarial mediation.
• Walsh, Cleaning giant announces global partnership policy.
• Moravec, Thumbs up for self-managed teams.
• Busch, I don't trust you, but why don't you trust me?.
• Collaboration Handout #1
• Collaboration Handout #2

  Masters of Organizational Leadership Readings

• Emotional strategies and rationality, Greenspan
• Ethics, Character, and authentic transformation leadership,  Lernard M. Bass
  and Paul Steidlmeier
• The myth of charismatic leaders, Raelin
• The dark and the bright sides of leadership, Popper
• When deontology and utilitarianism are not enough, Ladkin
• Politics and manipulation, C. Mills
• Marketing and the vulnerable, Brenkert
• Valuing autonomy, Buss