Many of the readings may be downloaded from the Project Gutenberg site. Those available for download are linked from the bibliographic entry.
| LEC # | Topics | Readings |
|---|---|---|
| 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.” |
