Many of the readings may be downloaded from the
Project Gutenberg site. Those available for download have a direct link to the text listed next to the bibliographic entry.
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| | | | | | 1 | | | | Power and Authority | | | | Plato. Excerpts from The Republic. (download from Project Gutenberg)
Dostoyevksy. The Legend of the Grand Inquistor. Kantor, Rosabeth. Excerpt from Men and Women of the Corporation. Case Study: "Foreign Assignment."
| | | | | | | | | | | | 2 | | | | Ethics and Business Ethics | | | | Cheever, John. The Housebreaker of Shady Hill. Carr, Albert. Is Business Bluffing Ethical? Aristotle. The Politics. (Excerpt on household management) Case Study: "Italian Tax Mores."
| | | | | | | | | | | | 3 | | | | Loyalty and Conflict of Values | | | | Sophocles. Antigone. Plato. Crito. (download from Project Gutenberg) Case Study: New York Times, "Into the Mouths of Babes."
| | | | | | | | | | | | 4 | | | | Leadership and Followership | | | | Shakespeare. Julius Caesar. (download from Project Gutenberg) Machiavelli. The Prince. Ch. 14-18. (download from Project Gutenberg)
| | | | | | | | | | | | 5 | | | | Dirty Money | | | | Shaw, George Bernard. Major Barbara. (download from Project Gutenberg) St. Matthew. The Sermon on the Mount; The Parable of Payment. (download from Project Gutenberg) Hobbes, Thomas. Excerpt from Leviathan. Aristotle. Politics. Bk 3, ch. 9. Lucas, J. R. "Money." Excerpt from Responsibility.
| | | | | | | | | | | | 6 | | | | Stewardship | | | | Dinesen, Isak. (Karen von Blixen). Sorrow-Acre. Friedman, Milton. The Social Responsibility of Business is Profit. Heifetz, Ronald. "Tacoma." From Leadership without Easy Answers. Case Study.
| | | | | | | | | | | | 7 | | | | Living in the System | | | | Forster, E. M. The Machine Stops. Pruitt and Barrett. Corporate Virtual Workspace. "Roger Boisjoly and the Challenger Disaster."
| | | | | | | | | | | | 8 | | | | Taking Charge | | | | Conrad, Joseph. The Secret Sharer. (download from Project Gutenberg) Orwell, George. Shooting an Elephant. Williams, William Carlos. The Use of Force.
| | | | | | | | | | | | 9 | | | | Living with the Truth | | | | Swift, Jonathan. Gulliver's Travels. Book 4 only. (download from Project Gutenberg) Kant, Immanuel. On the Supposed Right to Lie. Bonhoffer, Dietrich. Situational Ethics. Levitt, Theodore. The Morality (?) of Advertising. Case Studies: Circumventing the FDIC, The New Line of Soap, Mutal Fund Management, A Problem in Performance Evaluation.
| | | | | | | | | | | | 10 | | | | Glass Ceilings | | | | Ibsen, Henrik. A Doll's House. Beauvoir, Simone de. Introduction to The Second Sex. Case Study: "Unequal Opportunity."
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