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MBA 652 - SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND
ETHICAL DIMENSIONS OF MANAGEMENT
Summer, 2003

Lawrence P. Ulrich, Ph.D.
Lawrence.Ulrich@notes.udayton.edu

COLLABORATIVE WRITING PROJECT
DUE DATE FOR #1: TUESDAY, JULY 2
DUE DATE FOR # 2: SUNDAY, JULY 27

General Homepage	Course Homepage	Course Description for Registration	Syllabus & Requirements	Objectives	Course Outline & Schedule	Reading Assignments & Schedule	Exam 1: 3 Essays
Exam 2: 3 Essays	Exam 3: 3 Essays	Collaborative Writing Project	Threaded Discussions	Chat Rooms	Readings	Links	Q & A

DATES TO REMEMBER

COURSE EVALUATION FORM

THE TASK:

Imagine that you have been asked by the Board of Directors of your company to bring them up to speed on the case of Martha Stewart and Insider Trading and WorldCom situations. They want to know what has happened up to this point and they want an ethical analysis of what we know about the questionable activities in the two situations. They want to emphasize the ethical issues in the situation so they don't repeat the mistakes of Martha Stewart and WorldCom. They know that you have taken this course in SOCIAL RESPONSIBILITY AND ETHICAL DIMENSIONS OF MANAGEMENT so they expect you to give a carefully argued presentation and analysis. They do not want the presentations and analyses to be too long --- about 2000 words would be quite sufficient. If you CLICK HERE you will find an outline that you are to follow in writing your report.

Your company is a strong believer in teamwork so the Board wants you to work as teams in putting together your report. Unfortunately, your other tasks and travels make it impossible for your teams to get together in a room for any length of time so you have to do most of your work over the Internet. Fortunately, QuickPlace offers you the ideal tool to develop team presentations. You will notice that this project combines the features of a threaded discussion and the task of writing. The threaded discussion that leads up to the actual writing should contain at least 5 contributions from each member of the team. The merits of the report will be judged on the team discussion and the reflection of that discussion in the final report. THE QUICKPLACE FOR THE REPORTS FOR TEAMS 3 AND 4 WILL BE SET UP AFTER THE REPORTS ON MARTHA STEWART AND INSIDER TRADING HAVE BEEN SUBMITTED.

Your User Name and Password for QuickPlace is the same UN and PW you use to check your Lotus Notes e-mail through the Internet. It is also the same as your access to the Threaded Discussions in this course. If you cannot remember them, call the Help Desk at 229-3888 or contact Kim Krug of the Lotus Integration Team. <Kim.Krug@notes.udayton.edu>

The Board wants two reports from each of the teams. The first report is to focus on THE INDICTMENT OF MARTHA STEWART FOR INSIDER TRADING [the legal indictment is found on Week 4 of the Reading Assignments page] and the second report is to focus on WORLDCOM. They want two reports to check one team against another. And then they want to recompose the teams for the second report. The teams will be composed by a random process.

Since the cases are so current you will have to use news magazines and newspapers for your research. I suggest Time and Newsweek and also The New York Times and The Wall Street Journal. You probably all get The Wall Street Journal so you can go to WSJ.com as an easy resource. You can also take advantage of the Dow Jones Interactive website, <http://www.sba.udayton.edu/it/dji.asp>, which the School of Business Administration makes available to you. The link to the Dow Jones Interactive website is accessed form the SBA link identified above, but you will probably have to use a computer at the university to access this site. Much good and accurate information is available from these sources. The library at this site is a particularly valuable treasure trove of references.

The first report (Martha Stewart and Insider Trading) is due Tuesday, July 2. The second report (WorldCom) is due Sunday, July 27.

DIRECTIONS:

1. Go to http://quickplace.udayton.edu/QuickPlace/mba652_ulrich/Main.nsf
2. Click on your "Team and number." [Team members are identified at the bottom of this page.]
3. Click on your "Team and number --- Discussion."
4. Click on "new."
5. Select "Page" and click "next."
6. Enter a brief title in # 1 and type your comment(s) in #2 and then click "publish".
7. Point to and click on the comment, response, or revision which you wish to address.
8. Click on "new" if you wish to make a new comment; click on "respond" to respond to what another member in the group has said; click on "revision" if you are making changes in a text that has already been started. You will always be creating a new page or editing an existing page.

The above directions will work well for making comments as you begin to work with the articles.
1. When your team is ready to work on a draft click on "Draft of . . . and number" on the left of your screen. Anyone can make a revision in a draft --- just click on the title of the draft and then "new revision" at the top of the page, enter the revision and then click on "publish". You may want to select someone from your team to put together the final report.
2. When you have the polished version of the essay finished, click on the title of the essay and then "copy" at the top of the page. Select "Final Version of . . . and number" and click next.

TEAM 1

MARTHA STEWART AND INSIDER TRADING (due 7/2)

Collins, Gentner, Gilmore. Johnson, McCrea, Nienaber, Pederson, Petrusch

TEAM 2

MARTHA STEWART AND INSIDER TRADING (due 7/2)

Barrow, Batten, Berberich, Davey, Edwards, Hoying, Roth, Townsend

TEAM3

WORLDCOM (due 7/27)

Batten, Berberich, Collins, Edwards, Gentner, Gilmore, Petrusch, Roth

TEAM 4

WORLDCOM (due 7/27)

Barrow, Davey, Hoying, Johnson, McCrea, Nienaber, Pederson, Townsend

TASK:
WRITE AN ESSAY OF APPROXIMATELY 2,000 WORDS.
[You might want to imagine that you are writing this at the request of the Board of Directors of your company.]

Teams 1 and 2 will focus on the Case of Martha Stewart and Insider Trading. Teams 3 and 4 will focus on the WorldCom Case.

DYNAMICS OF COLLABORATIVE WRITING

1. All members of the team should engage in the discussion. There is no magic number for contributions to the discussion, but about 5 contributions per person would be a decent number to consider. All contributions to the discussion MUST be made by June 25 for the first report and July 22 for the second report. This is necessary to give enough time for the final version to be produced.

2. The team will decide how it will go about generating a draft that will be put in the "Draft" folder.

3. The team will designate who will refine the final version and put it in the "final version" folder.

4. Notify instructor when the final version is ready to be read.