1. Choose a paper topic amongst those covered in the syllabus. The main requirement is that your paper has to do with business, ethics, and our texts. I favor taking copious notes in your texts (the bookstore doesn’t give you much back anyway), underline, doodle, scrawl, so that you have a lot of objections to turn into a paper.
In this paper you will argue your conclusion against opposition. So, get to the point right away. For example, the first couple of lines: “According to
You should talk about something that is a real issue: a controversy with at least two sides. You should TAKE A SIDE, and in doing so you are not representing any given author YOU ARE REPRESENTING YOURSELF. I want YOUR ARGUMENT, though you can use whomever (even an outside source or two) to help you out. Your paper should be at least 50% in class text sources and be RELATED ESSENTIALLY TO BUSINESS PRACTICE (even if its fundamentally on a philosophical position). An easy way to do this is to bring in a case study or two. USE ACTUAL REAL LIFE EXAMPLES (like Enron or Microsoft) in place of hypothetical examples (like suppose a Ceo…) whenever possible.
-Is it fine to simply expand on one of our discussion board posts if we believe there is enough content to work with (I’m planning to refute Carr and his views on bluffing and deception)?
-In what format should references and in-text citations be written (MLA, APA)?
-The syllabus states the paper “should be at least 50% in class text sources”. Does this 50% refer to making up half of our references, or half of our paper’s content?
Sure, you can use material you posted on the discussion board. It is not like it is published or anything, and you wrote it
MLA, APA, whatever, just be consistent.
Roughly half the paper’s content should have to do with one or more of our texts.
Most of this is probably not necessary on the rough draft, as you will fine tune it later. The rough draft should be at least an introduction.
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Organizational Ethics, Philosophy 323-900,
Required Texts:
Organizational Ethics; A Practical Approach. Craig E. Johnson. Thousand Oaks, CA: Sage, 2012. 1st or 2nd edition. ISBN: 9781412987967
Course Description: This is a philosophy course in organizational ethics. Philosophy argues for conclusions based on premises and ethics studies theories about what is good or bad, right or wrong in human conduct. Business, medicine, law, government, prisons and other types of organizational structures represent kinds of human conduct–the complicated story about how we do these things. So, add philosophy and ethics, and you get organizational ethics: the study of theories about how we should conduct ourselves in organizations. And it has a number of problems. Here are two:
First problem: methodology. People preeminently approach OE through a “deductive” case-study method that I find question begging. Lots of case studies tell us what is the case in contemporary organizations, but I’d rather know what should be and how to get there. I think we should start with the individual herself and ask the rules for getting a part.” If she goes to a frat party (note not all frats are like this), “well, she shouldn’t have got drunk. Her getting drunk, meant she wanted it.” “You should take advantage bro, if you don’t someone else will.”
Most of us think this is a disgusting way to treat women. Why do people think that it is ok to treat people in business this way, just because you can?
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