THE TASKS:

[CWP1: An exercise examining the case of Enron --- page 318 in the textbook and Week 8 on the Readings Assignments webpage.]

Imagine that you have been asked by the Board of Directors of your company to bring them up to speed on ENRON. They know that you have probably talked about this case for several years in a variety of courses. But they would like to see a disciplined ETHICAL ANALYSIS of the case. They are particularly interested in the case since Jeff Skilling is in prison and Ken Lay escaped punishment by dying.  They want to emphasize the ethical issues in the situation so they can avoid mistakes that Enron's management made. 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 2500 words would be quite sufficient; they do not want a lengthy tome --- their time is very valuable and they do not have the time to read an excessively long treatise.

If you CLICK HERE you will find an outline that you are to follow in writing your report. You know how bureaucracies are about giving and following directions.

You will be working as a team with representatives of other corporations around the country. 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. These contributions should have substantive content. There may be, in addition, some contributions about how you are going to go about writing the report. The merits of the report will be judged on the team discussion and the reflection of that discussion in the final report.

[CWP2] The task will focus on "The Development of a Corporate Ethics Program for a Corporation in a Global Business Environment." Readings for this assignment will be found in Chapters 7, 8, 9 and 10 of the textbook. More details describing the project will be found on the Instruction page of the Quickplace tool for CWP2. The expectations in terms of length and dynamics for discussing the topic and producing the Final Report will remain as outlined below.  

You will be working as a team with representatives of other departments in your company --- you are a global institution. 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. These contributions should have substantive content. There may be, in addition, some contributions about how you are going to go about writing the report. The merits of the report will be judged on the team discussion and the reflection of that discussion in the final report.

Since the issues in this matter 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.

[CWP1] is due by midnight on Sunday, June 28 with the last day for making contributions to the Threaded Discussion, which precedes the writing of the report, being June 22.

[CWP2] is due by midnight on Wednesday, July 29,  with the last day for making decisions about the composition of the Final Report Sunday, July 19, and with the last day for making contributions to the Threaded Discussion, which precedes the writing of the report, being July 22.

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 and Activity." 4. Click on "New Post." 5. Enter a brief title in the "Post Topic" box and type your comment(s) in "Contents" box and then click "Check In". 6. To respond to another's comment, point to the "Topic" of the comment and click on "New Response." 7. If you wish to revise your comment, click on the comment "Topic" and click on "Check Out and Edit." When you have finished your editing, click on "Check In." 8. If you receive a prompt about allowing secure or nonsecure items, click on "Yes" to allow nonsecure items.

TEAM 1 THE CASE OF ENRON: AN EXERCISE IN ETHICAL ANALYSIS Bertke, Fasquella, Green, Rismiller, Weaver, Whalen   [Due 06/28]	TEAM 2: THE CASE OF ENRON AN EXERCISE IN ETHICAL ANALYSIS Bergez, Branham, Burton, Gebhard, Maurer, Pasczcykowski, Wedemeyer   [Due 06/28]	TEAM 3: THE CASE OF ENRON AN EXERCISE IN ETHICAL ANALYSIS Brady, Cartwright, Griffin, Groshek, Guliants, Maruszewski, Simon   [Due 06/28]
TEAM 4: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CORPORATE ETHICS PROGRAM FOR A CORPORATION IN A GLOBAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Branham, Burton, Green, Griffin, Groshek, Rismiller, Weaver   [Due 07/29]	TEAM 5: THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CORPORATE ETHICS PROGRAM FOR A CORPORATION IN A GLOBAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Bergez, Brady, Fasquelle, Gebhard, Paszczykowski, Simon, Wedemeyer [Due 7/29]	TEAM 6:   THE DEVELOPMENT OF A CORPORATE ETHICS PROGRAM FOR A CORPORATION IN A GLOBAL BUSINESS ENVIRONMENT Bertke, Cartwright, Guliants, Maruszewski, Maurer, Whalen  [Due 7/29]