MGT 345 C1 The Context of : Business, Government and Society

Spring 2010 C1 January 6 to April 27

Walt Stevenson Professor of Management and Communications Undergraduate Programs, Ageno School of Business Golden Gate University

Contact Information Email: [email protected] Telephone: 415-442-6527

l. Course Description

Examines the relationships of business, government and society in the social, economic and political systems of the United States and the world. Issues in business/government relations, regulation, business ethics, and international competition are discussed, and case material is used.

2. Course Objectives

o describe key concepts in the business-government-society triangle

o assess the ironies, dilemmas, and paradoxes involved in such an intricate relationship

o compare various views on the relationship among the individual and the business culture and American society,

o construct conceptual frameworks for the contemporary manager's confrontation of issues related to public policy, ethics, and corporate strategy

o evaluate a manager's feeling of the relationships between business, society and the individual

o demonstrate the well-informed positions throughout the class regarding issues that are discussed o develop future public policy issue scenarios and relate them to strategic management practices

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3. Required Materials

Bookstore

1) Lawrence, A. T. and J. Weber. (2008). Business and society: stakeholder, ethics, public policy. 12th edition. McGraw-Hill Irwin. ISBN 978-0-07-353017-8.

To purchase course books and materials from eFollett, GGU's official online bookstore, go to www.ggu.bkstr.com/.

Other study materials

2) A CyberCampus Website accompanies this class. You will receive—if you are a new user— passwords 24 hours after you register. Through this Website, you, among other things, will be able to submit assignments, check the grade book, download materials from the instructor, and enter a discussion. Be sure to log in on the first day of class, January 7, 2007.

University Library

Find the GGU Library Home Page at http://www.ggu.edu/library/home.html.

There are several databases available through the Golden Gate University Library for students to conduct research on various topics. Remote (off campus) access to the databases requires your last name and student ID# (located on the front of your ID card). Be sure to type in ALL 7 digits, including the starting 0. Example: 0123456.

4. Contacting the instructor

You can contact me in person in my office, Room 4353 at the Campus; by phone at 415- 442-6527; by e-mail [email protected]; by fax at 415-442-6533.

5. Course Requirements, Student Responsibilities, Evaluations

Course Requirements Read the text assignments on time. Take the quizzes online and in-class on time. Prepare the written work on time. Join in on virtual and in-class discussions. Do the exercises as assigned.

Student Responsibilities Be prepared on time; join in on the discussions; take the quizzes.

Attendance and Participation Attendance at all sessions is expected. Online attendance is determined by your postings in the online discussions. Students with absences will be subject to lowered grades.

Evaluations You will receive an opportunity to evaluate the course and instructor at least once this term.

6. Course Procedure Mgt 345 Context of Business-Government, Business, and Society; Walt Stevenson 2 Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University

You will have assigned reading to be done prior to each class, including the first class. Between classes you may be asked to work independently or to be part of a team, posting responses to chapter-end questions. You will also be commenting, as an individual, on other teams’ responses to questions not assigned to your team. You will also be expected to complete a midterm and a final exam. A final exam, quizzes and written papers will be required.

7. Course Evaluations Your grade will be made up of a number of components. These include response papers, individual and team activities, quizzes, a final exam, and online discussions.

8. Grading

Grading Sources

Response There will be 11 of these at 5 points each. papers 55 points Film Reviews There will be 3 of these at 5 points each. 15 points Quizzes There will be 14 of these at 5 points each. 70 points Team activities There will be 5 of these at 5 points each. 25 points Discussion There will be 14 of these at 3 points each 42 points Team There will be one of these team PPT presentations at 50 points each presentation 50 points Final exam There will be one of these at 100 points 100 points Total points 357 points

Points Discussion Guidelines 3 or 2 Contributions are substantive, prompt, timely, relevant, self-initiated; remarks are raised freely in all discussions throughout the course; there is no attempt to dominate conversation. Contributions further the objectives of the session and of the course. Comments explore self-learning and prompt learning in others. 1 Student generally keeps up with the discussion 0 Participation is spotty; picks and chooses topics to get involved. Demonstrates little initiative. Needs some prompting to contribute. 0 Some participation, makes relevant remarks 0 No participation

Letter Grades Points Percentages A 100% - 96% A- 95% - 94% B+ 93% - 90% B 89% - 85% B- 85% - 80% C+ 80% - 79.9% C 73% - 76.9% C- 70% - 72.9% D+ 67% - 69.9% D 63% - 66.9% D- 60% - 62.9% F 0% - 59.9%

Mgt 345 Context of Business-Government, Business, and Society; Walt Stevenson 3 Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University 9. Academic Integrity Policy and Turnitin.com

Policy: GGU's Policy on Student Academic Integrity is in effect at all GGU teaching locations, including regional classroom sites, corporate sites, and distance courses delivered in any medium. This policy applies to all business, taxation, and technology students at Golden Gate University.

Academic integrity means doing academic work in a manner that strives to achieve the learning objectives your courses have set out for you. It means that you follow the rules and procedures prescribed by your instructors so that you acquire the skills and knowledge your courses are designed to give you. It means that you engage in ethical practices in taking tests and doing assignments and that you respect intellectual property rights by fully disclosing sources of information that appear in your papers and presentations.

GGU provides many resources and services that assist you in learning the required research and documentation skills. Please read GGU’s Policy on Student Academic Integrity: Policy on Student Academic Integrity

Turnitin.com: You will be asked to use the Turnitin.com Website to filter your written work through. You will need to log on to Turnitin.com where you will be able to submit your written work and get a reading on its originality rating. You will do this for every written assignment and submit to me the certificate of completion that Turnitin.com will provide you.

This filtering will help you make your work original to you and caution you when you have copied works of others in a fashion that breaches academic integrity.

Registering for TurnItIn TurnItIn.com is a service that identifies sources used in papers. When you (or an instructor) submits a paper to TurnItIn, it searches its database to determine which sources were used in the paper. There is a sample paper and report (in color) in Doc Sharing. This will give you a feel for what you see when a report is generated. Why are we using TurnItIn? Instructors can use it to determine if papers cite sources properly, or if pieces of the writing are taken from external sources such as term paper mills, or other papers submitted to the University. Used in this way, it is a plagiarism detection service. The benefit to you is substantial. You can submit your research projects to TurnItIn to see if your citations match your sources, or to see if you have perhaps written material without citing it properly. I don’t monitor your submissions to TurnItIn. After papers are submitted, I have the option to submit papers to TurnItIn as well, if it appears that there may be citation/source problems. See the syllabus for the University’s academic honesty policy. There are also examples of different types of citations there. The TurnItIn site also provides good information on properly citing sources, both in text and on reference pages. There are several citation methods; GGU supports the American Psychological Association format.

------* How to create a Turnitin account First, create a new user profile with TurnItIn.com. Go to the site, and choose Create A User Profile, at the upper right hand side of the page. On the Create A User Profile Screen, choose student from the dropdown box. On the Create A User Profile screen, enter the requested information. Course name is Mgt 345

The Turnitin Class ID =3031524 and the enrollment password for the course = caps

When you enter these, you will be enrolled for our course. Follow the information requests on the next windows. Your email will be your future login.

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Documenting sources: Below are listed some easy lessons about how to document your work carefully and responsibly. If you have a situation that isn’t covered here, ask your instructor to help you.

Documenting Sources:

Just 4 Rules

1. For short passages (usually under 40 words) quoted word for word, “put the quoted material inside quotation marks (like this is), and provide the author, date and page number in parentheses right after the quotation” (Jones, 1999, p. 76).

2. For longer quotations,

Instead of quotation marks, the quoted material gets its own paragraph, and the entire paragraph is indented (given wider margins than the rest of the paper, like this paragraph). Then the author, date, and page number appear in parentheses at the end of the paragraph, and outside the last period. (Jackson, 2003, p. 229)

3. If you use material from another source but change the wording (called paraphrasing), give the author and date in parentheses (Jones, 1999).

4. At the end of the paper, give full bibliographical information for all your sources on a page called References. There are different styles for documenting sources. GGU recommends the APA style, which is used in the social sciences. An instructor, however, may require another style, so ask. APA references (for a web site, book and journal article) look like this:

References

Archer, Z. (n.d.). Exploring nonverbal communication. Retrieved July 18, 2001, from http://zzyx.ucsc.edu/~archer Highmore, B. (2001). Everyday life and cultural theory. New York: Routledge. Morawski, J. (2000). Social psychology a century ago. American Psychologist, 55, 427-431. Note that references from the Web must contain a retrieval date (see Archer sample above). Don’t just list the URL, but put in as much information as you can about any author, and section or area of the Website so others can retrace your steps.

Research and Documentation:

6 Free Resources (Live and Online) for GGU Students

1. For detailed information on using and citing sources using APA, MLA, and other styles, consult A Writer’s Reference by Diana Hacker, the textbook used in GGU English composition classes, available at the GGU Bookstore, or consult the free website http://www.dianahacker.com/resdoc/. Remember that business is a social science and so use the format listed under Social Science.

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2. The University Library’s website offers a wealth of information to guide you through the research process. Resources include a sample research paper and detailed information on evaluating and citing sources. New at the Library website is RefWorks, a management tool that keeps track of articles you find as you do research. Go to http://www.ggu.edu/university_library to access the many GGU Library resources.

3. An online tutorial, Core Competitive Research Skills CyberCourse, is designed to help you find, evaluate, and use library and online sources in your projects and papers. In every step of the tutorial, a reference librarian is available to help with specific research needs and questions. The tutorial is free and can be accessed at http://www.ggu.edu/university_library/research/researching_a_topic

4. At the Writing Center, located in Room 5307 at the San Francisco campus, you work one-on-one with experienced writing tutors (most of them GGU instructors) who are familiar with the types of writing assignments common in GGU courses.

5. The Online Writing Lab (OWL) offers online writing help to GGU students. OWL tutors help you solve specific problems in the work you submit, and guide you through the writing process. Go to http://www.ggu.edu/general_education/english_and_communications/online_writing _lab

6. Ask your instructor about www.Turnitin.com. www.turnitin.com helps you avoid unintentional plagiarism. When you submit a paper to Turnitin.com’s website, it searches 4.5 billion pages of web and printed sources, documents any matches, and give you the source for each match. You can then be sure your sources are properly documented. Any instructor can set up Turnitin.com for his or her students to log in to. In addition, Turnitin.com’s homepage has research resources available to anyone at http://www.turnitin.com without logging in.

10. Disability Accommodations Golden Gate University seeks to ensure that all programs and services are fully accessible to students with disabilities who identify and express their needs.

Information regarding The Americans with Disabilities Acts and GGU’s policies and services can be found at: http://www.ggu.edu/student_services/disability_services .

11. Instructor Bio

Walt Stevenson is Professor of Management and Communications, a full-time faculty member at Golden Gate University. He holds an AB in English Literature from the University of at Berkeley and an MBA and DBA in General Management from Golden Gate University.

He is Colleague Associate and distinguished Leader of the Creative Education Foundation, located in Mgt 345 Context of Business-Government, Business, and Society; Walt Stevenson 6 Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University Buffalo, New York, teaching in Creative Problem Solving Institutes in the United States, Canada, and Brazil. He has taught GM 300 Managerial Analysis and Communications for Golden Gate University in its Southeast Asia programs located in Singapore, and in Kuala Lumpur, Malaysia. His University trip took him to Djakarta, Indonesia, to Bangkok, Thailand, and to Hong Kong where he visited and met with current students and alumni of the University. A recent teaching assignment in Sao Paulo, Brazil, allowed him to work with managerial decision making in a Latin American culture and to present a forum on the post- industrial manager. He has also taught courses on managing cultural diversity for GGU's programs in American Samoa.

Walt's community service includes serving on the Board of Directors for Big Brothers/Big Sisters of San Francisco and serving on the Board of Directors for Tale Spinners, a theater group writing and performing oral history plays.

Walt's current teaching at Golden Gate University includes Managerial Analysis and Communications, Business and American Society, the Creative Process, Introduction to Critical Reasoning, Drama Seminar:ACT Season, Manager as Communicator, Management Theory and Practice, Principles of Management, Business Writing and Editing, and Applied Presentation Skills. He has also been an active teacher in the University's Cyber Campus.

Walt is co-author, with H. L. Knight, of Communication for Justice Administration: Theory and Skill, 1976.

12. Course Outline Assignments due by midnight on the Saturday following the week’s start date.

Session Topic Assignment

Week 1 . The corporation Read ch 1 and its Take the Quiz stakeholders Turn in Response Paper Enter the Discussion Week 2 . Public affairs Read ch 2 management Take the Quiz Turn in Response Paper Enter the Discussion Week 3 . Corporate social Read ch 3 and ch 4 responsibility Take the Quiz . Corporate Turn in Response Paper citizenship Enter the Discussion

Week 4 . Ethical issues in Read ch 5 and ch 6 business Take the Quiz . Ethical Turn in Response Paper reasoning and Enter the Discussion corporate Turn in BSG-1 team programs assignment

Mgt 345 Context of Business-Government, Business, and Society; Walt Stevenson 7 Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University Week 5 . Challenges of Read Ch 7 and ch 8 globalization Take the Quiz . Business- Turn in Response Paper government Enter the Discussion relations Week 6 . Influencing the Read ch 9 and ch 10 political Take the Quiz environment Turn in Film Review . Antitrust, Enter the Discussion mergers, and competition policy

Week 7 . Ecology and Read ch 11 and ch 12 sustainable Take the Quiz development in Turn in Response Paper global business Enter the Discussion . Managing Turn in BSG-2 team environmental assignment issues Week 8 . Technology: a Read ch 13 and ch 14 global economic- Take the Quiz social force Turn in Response Paper . Managing Enter the Discussion technologic challenges Week 9 . Stockholder Read ch 15 rights and Take the Quiz corporate Turn in Response Paper governance Enter the Discussion Week 10 . Consumer Read ch 16 protection Take the Quiz Turn in Response Paper Enter the Discussion Turn in BSG-3 team assignment

Week 11 . The community Read ch 17 and the Take the Quiz corporation Turn in Film Review Enter the Discussion Week 12 . Employees and Read ch 18 the corporation Take the Quiz Turn in Response Paper Enter the Discussion Turn in BSG-4 team assignment

Mgt 345 Context of Business-Government, Business, and Society; Walt Stevenson 8 Ageno School of Business, Golden Gate University Week 13 . Managing a Read ch 19 diverse Take the Quiz workforce Turn in Film Review Enter the Discussion

Week 14 . Business and Read ch 20 the media Take the Quiz Turn in Response Paper Enter the Discussion Turn in BSG-5 team assignment Turn in Team PPT presentation Week 15 . Review and Final exam study for the final exam Week 16 Catch up; final week to submit assignments

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