• Course intro (purpose of course)
• Warm up (student venn diagrams)
• Corporate animals (exercise + video)
• Bad apples (video and exercise)
• Email/major

Homework:

• Read: Steiner and Steiner, Ch1 

• Surprise
• Externalities (video)
• Introduction to the market
• Service learning

• Read: Friedman, The social responsibility of business is to increase its profits
• Analyze Friedman article using Article analysis worksheet (MS Word format)

• Update roll sheet
• Service learning
  • Into the Streets (2/27 & 2/28, 8:00 am - 1:45 pm)
  • Poverty 101 (4/1, 5:00 - 7:00 pm, SC140-144)
  • Hunger Banquet (4/9, 5:00 - 7:00 pm, Pavilion)
• Friedman article discussion
  • Profit as social responsibility
  • Hidden assumption: profits are good
  • Shareholder's view
• Participant observation and making the normal seem strange.  In-class demo and/or  Video clip:  Office Space

• Participant observation (read before McDonald's observation, if possible)
• McDonald's observation (due in 1 week)

• Current free market news case study: peanuts
• IQ Test
  • one
  • two
• Begin discussion of culture
  • does it affect success in business? (e.g., dress for success), speech, tattoos and piercings.

• Participant observation (read before McDonald's observation, if possible)
• McDonald's observation (due next meeting)

• McDonalds observation reports and reflection

• Read: "McDonalds - We do it all for you." (handout)
• Short reflection on learning.  Done in class, but here's the assignment if you missed class. 

• Will the market system doom us? (video and discussion)
  • Current: home value meltdown and financial "crisis"
  • Crash Course (oil)

• Steiner and Steiner Ch5, especially case study

• Derren Brown video
• Discuss Jack Welch case and connect to video
• Discuss relationship between culture and ethics.
• Visit into the streets sign-up

• None

• Mid-term practice
• Enron video

• Steiner and Steiner Ch6, including Mark Kasky case

• • Discussion of Enron movie
  • Relying on the individual
    • ethics
    • community service/charity
  • Ethics and culture
  • Symbolic violence
  • Case studies on ethics
    • What's your price?
   
• Bourdieu's expansion of the concept of capital
  • Cultural capital
  • Social capital
  • Economic capital
• Ethics in business cultures case
  • U.S.
  • International
• Case discussion: Martha Stewart
• Case discussion: Jack Welch

• rticle: "Strong cultures: The New 'Old Rule' for business success" from Deal and Kennedy, Corporate Cultures.
• Analyze Deal and Kennedy article using Article analysis worksheet (MS Word format)
• Ch 5, especially the caseTime magazine.  Reading on capital: "Pathways to Power:A New Study Shows How the Corporate World Can Overcome Biases at Work and Unleash the Talents of Minority Women in the Workplace."
• Steiner and Steiner, Ch 7

• Handout Assessment
• Lecture: Freire and direct action
• Lecture: Marx, Giddens, Donham: business organizations as instruments of domination

• Steiner and Steiner, Ch4

• Mid-term assessment - write 1 question in 30 minutes.
• Activism: PETA and KFC

• Steiner and Steiner, Ch5 and 6

• Quiz over reading
• Jack Welch/GE case
• Plan for corporate social responsibility panel discussion
   

• Required for next meeting:

• Corporate social responsibility panel discussion

• Into the Streets discussion

• Standard oil case

• Video: Life and debt
   

• Required
  
  • Read Steiner Ch 13

• Assessments due at the beginning of class.  Email them to me if you think you might be late to class.  
• Video: Life and debt

• Multinationals and the world economy
• Case discussion: Union Carbide of India

• Tuesday memo on learning

  Read Steiner Ch 12

•  General Systems Theory
• Lecture: Systems Theory
• Case discussion: Standard Oil
• The question of global ethics
• Domination cont.
  • How organizations exploit their employees
  • Organization, class and control
  • Workplace issues
  • Direct action
  • Case discussion: KFC
  Direct action: Into the streets service learning project

• Two-faced capitalism
• Research: Participant observation scene proposal
• Research: Participant observation research proposal
• McCurdy and Spradley, Ch 3
• Steiner and Steiner, Ch 3 Business Power
• McCurdy and Spradley, Ch 4
• Begin research
• Morgan, The ugly face: Organizations as instruments of domination
• Steiner, Ch 17
• Reflective journal
• Research: continue observation

• Globalization
• Video: A decent factory
• Case discussion: World Trade Organization

• Steiner, Ch 13
• Prepare for assessment

• The old guard: Functionalism, social systems (Parsons/Luhmanns) and human ecology (Hawley)
  • Overview
  • Some useful analytic tools
• Case discussion: American Fur

• Steiner and Steiner, Ch 2: The Dynamic Environment
• Research: coding of observations

• Functionalism cont.
  • Business adaptation to the push for social responsibility
• Case discussion: Nike

• Steiner and Steiner, Ch 6: Implementing social responsibility
• Write up research

• Functionalism cont.
  • Case study: The function of Government in perturbing the system
  • Business pushes back
  • System equilibrium?

• Steiner and Steiner, Ch 9-10
• Research due.

• Functionalism cont. 
  • Case study: environment
  • Video: Silent Spring

•  Steiner and Steiner, Ch 11

• Functionalism finale: student-led discussion of case studies
  • Regulatory "reform"
  • Consumerism
  • Civil rights
  • etc.

• Various Steiner and Steiner chapters, depending on group assignment.

• Return to culture and synthesizing discussions

• Final assessment