NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
mgmt 601
THE ENVIRONMENT OF BUSINESS
Vancouver
DR.
STEPHEN W. HARTMAN
MBA PROGRAM
NO PREREQUISITES
3 CREDITS
fall, 2009
OFFICE TEL.: (516) 686-7972 O.W.
Environment of Business Websites
INTRODUCTION
This
course is designed to provide the student of management with a heightened
awareness not only of the interests that exist outside of the physical
boundaries of the corporation, but also of the system of values that lie beyond
the rationale of the profit motive. It
is hoped that the student will achieve a greater realization that business
institutions do not exist in a void, but are shaped and challenged by
continuous interaction with the environment within which they exist.
Today's
businesses are facing unprecedented challenges in terms of bitter international
competition, productivity, and light year technological advances to mention
only those which seem to be most apparent.
While this environment creates many new opportunities, only those
business organizations that successfully meet these demands will survive in the
years ahead, which undoubtedly will mean greater concentration of capital as a
result of business mergers and failures.
In
this course the graduate business students will be challenged to create a
systematic framework of analysis for enabling creative thinking in terms of
understanding the dynamics of modern business and government.
· To explain the social responsibilities and ethical duties of business.
· To study and understand how forces in the internal and external environments of business firms are changing the task of management, altering business operations, and modifying the role of business in society through the daily presentation and analysis of articles in class by the students.
· To explain that many of these environmental forces are global in nature.
· To develop an understanding of the power of business to influence its environment.
· To develop an understanding of the power of ideas in the business environment to shape the business-government-society relationship.
· To appreciate the importance of law and government regulation as a force directing business behavior.
· To study historical patterns in the business-government-society relationship, learning how the past shaped the present, and learning how present trends are shaping the future.
· To develop in students an ethical and philosophical basis for making business decisions.
· To incorporate the knowledge of many fields through an interdisciplinary approach by completing two case studies.
· To develop a tolerance for ambiguities in discussing issues in the business environment about which knowledgeable observers reach different conclusions and to develop an understanding that there are no clear solutions to some problems.
· To help students develop appropriate analytical methods in studying major issues in the business-government-society relationship through the completion of case studies based on actual organizational events.
Each student enrolled in a course at NYIT agrees that, by taking such course, he or she consents to the submission of all required papers for textual similarity review to any commercial service engaged by NYIT to detect plagiarism. Each student also agrees that all papers submitted to any such service may be included as source documents in the service’s database, solely for the purpose of detecting plagiarism of such papers.
Plagiarism is the appropriation of all or part of someone else’s works (such as but not limited to writing, coding, programs, images, etc.) and offering it as one’s own. Cheating is using false pretenses, tricks, devices, artifices or deception to obtain credit on an examination or in a college course. If a faculty member determines that a student has committed academic dishonesty by plagiarism, cheating or in any other manner, the faculty has the academic right to 1) fail the student for the paper, assignment, project and/or exam, and/or 2) fail the student for the course and/or 3) bring the student up on disciplinary charges, pursuant to Article VI, Academic Conduct Proceedings, of the Student Code of Conduct. The complete Academic Integrity Policy may be found on various NYIT Webpages, including:
http://www.nyit.edu/about/administration/academic_affairs/academics/resources_faculty.html
All students can access the NYIT virtual library from both on and off campus at www.nyit.edu/library. The same login you use to access NYIT e-mail and NYITConnect will also give you access to the library’s resources from off campus.
On the left side of the library’s home page, you will find the “Library Catalog” and the “Find Journals” sections. In the middle of the home page you will find “Research Guides;” select “Video Tutorials” to find information on using the library’s resources and doing research.
TEACHING METHODOLOGY
The student's principal
obligation is to do the assigned reading, complete the quizzes and case
studies. The student is required to
prepare individual case study analyses based on answering specific questions on
answering the questions at the end of the case as well as developing updated
information regarding the topic.
Additionally the students may complete quizzes available through
Blackboard. It should be noted that the
students are required to read 19 chapters.
STUDENT PARTICIPATION
As graduate students it is expected
that you participate in class discussion.
Toward this end students are asked to bring in a current article every
day of class that relates to the Environment of Busines. Students can use Canadian newspaper articles,
the Wall Street Journal, New York Times, as well as articles from the
Internet. Students are asked to include
a brief summary of the article (can be in handwriting) as well as the
article. These will be collected and
used both as attendance and evidence of completing the assignment. These articles are a major component of your
student participation grade.
case study methodology
Students are required to
complete two case studies in this course.
You should do whatever research you feel is appropriate to answering the
questions raised as well as further developing the case. The research guide at the end of this course
outline gives a detailed explanation of what is required. A brief report regarding the case will be
given to the class where the students and the instructor will ask questions
about your conclusions.
The textbook cases are
integrated with the text and serve as vehicles for applying the chapter
materials. These cases allow students to
explore issues and to develop their on-line analytical and communication
skills. The cases are generally written
from the perspective of a firm that must determine how to address a particular
issue or problem. The cases generally
focus on a relatively well-defined set of issues.
Several questions are at
the end of each textbook case. Intended
to guide students' preparation of the case for their individual papers, these
questions are for guiding thinking, and a case discussion does not consist of
simply answering the questions. Since
the cases are based on actual events, the students are expected to do library
research to understand the issues further, and update the events described in
the text before making a decision about what should be done. Please state each question in your case
studies. It helps to keep you organized and on point. Students MUST update their case studies. Some of the
cases are a few years old, and in this real time world, that is ancient
history.
Case studies should be emailed as an
attachment to Dr. Hartman.
grade weighting
Final
Examination - 40%
case studies
- 40% (combined)
CLASS PARTICIPATION (Articles) 20%
grading
90-100 = a
86-89 = b+
80-85 = b
76-79 = c+
70-75 = c
0-69 = f
Complete On Time Case Study Assignments (within one Week of their due date) with correct grammar, spelling, footnotes and bibliography = Full Credit
Complete Late Case Study Assignments (up to one Week after their due date) with correct grammar, spelling, footnotes and bibliography = One Letter Grade Penalty
Complete Case Study Assignments more than 3 weeks late regardless of grammar, spelling, footnotes and bibliography = Two Letter Grade Penalty
Missing or Incomplete Case Study (questions not completely answered and/or no footnotes or bibliography) Case Study Assignments = 0 Points
A b
average is a passing
grade in all
graduate courses.
REQUIRED
TEXTBOOK
Lawrence and Weber, Business and Society:
Stakeholders, Ethics, Public Policy, 12/e (New York: McGraw Hill,
2008). 12th Edition. ISBN 0-07-353017-4. You can also download the book through McGraw-Hill’s eBook and save over 50%.
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TOPICS AND CASE STUDIES |
CHAPTER |
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Lawrence and Weber,
The Corporation and Its Stakeholders. Under the
Course Documents tab view the Chapter Objectives, Chapter Summary, Key Terms,
Flashcards, PowerPoint Presentations, and
Complete quiz 1 under the Syllabus and Final Exam tab. |
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Lawrence and Weber, Managing Public Issues and Corporate Social Responsibility. Under the Course Documents tab view the Chapter Objectives, Chapter Summary, Key Terms, Flashcards, PowerPoint Presentations, and Complete quiz 2 & 3 under the Syllabus and Final Exam tab. |
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Lawrence and Weber, Global Corporate Citizenship and Ethics and Ethical Reasoning. Under the Course Documents tab view the Chapter Objectives, Chapter Summary, Key Terms, Flashcards, PowerPoint Presentations, and Complete quiz 4 & 5 under the Syllabus and Final Exam tab. |
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Lawrence & Weber, Organizational Ethics and the Law and the Challenges of Globalization. Under the Course Documents tab view the Chapter Objectives, Chapter Summary, Key Terms, Flashcards, PowerPoint Presentations, and Complete quiz 6 & 7 under the Syllabus and Final Exam tab. First Case Study Due November 9, 2009. Choose any case study listed at the end of this outline, and discuss where things stand today. Answer all questions at the end of the case and discuss where things stand today.
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Lawrence and Weber,
Business-Government Relations and Influencing the Political Environment. Under the Course
Documents tab view the Chapter Objectives, Chapter Summary, Key Terms,
Flashcards, PowerPoint Presentations, and
Complete quiz 8 & 9 under the Syllabus and Final Exam tab.
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Lawrence and Weber, Antitrust, Mergers, and Competition and Ecology and Sustainable Development in Global Business. Under the Course Documents tab view the Chapter Objectives, Chapter Summary, Key Terms, Flashcards, PowerPoint Presentations, and Complete quiz 10 & 11 under the Syllabus and Final Exam tab. |
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Lawrence and Weber, Managing Environmental Issues and Technology: A Global Economic-Social
Force. Under the Course Documents tab view the Chapter
Objectives, Chapter Summary, Key Terms, Flashcards, PowerPoint Presentations,
and Complete quizzes 12 & 13 under
the Syllabus and Final Exam tab.
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Lawrence and Weber, Managing Technological Challenges
and
Stockholder Rights and Corporate Governance.
Under the Course Documents tab view the Chapter Objectives, Chapter
Summary, Key Terms, Flashcards, PowerPoint Presentations, and Complete quizzes 14 & 15 under the Syllabus and Final Exam tab. |
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Lawrence and Weber, Consumer Protection., and The Community and the Corporation. Under the Course Documents tab view the Chapter Objectives, Chapter Summary, Key Terms, Flashcards, PowerPoint Presentations, and Complete quizzes 16 & 17 under the Syllabus and Final Exam tab.
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Lawrence and Weber, Employees and the Corporation and Managing a Diverse Workforce. Under the Course Documents tab view the Chapter Objectives, Chapter Summary, Key Terms, Flashcards, PowerPoint Presentations, and Complete quizzes 18 & 19 under the Syllabus and Final Exam tab. |
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Final Examination. The
final exam is a 50 question multiple choice exam based on the previous
required chapters and will be administered November 18th. DO NOT JOIN THE LONG LIST OF
STUDENTS WHO WAIT TILL THE VERY END TO TAKE THE FINAL EXAM ONLY TO WATCH IT
EXPIRE AND THEIR PASSING GRADE GO DOWN THE TUBE. TAKE THE FINAL EARLY. |
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mgmt 601 RESEARCH CASE STUDY GUIDE
1. All case studies shall be typed double-spaced. Generally the length of the case study should be five pages.
2. The questions being answered within each case study are to be clearly stated followed by the student’s response. The students are required to update the case study using current resources including newspapers and the Internet.
3. Footnotes and bibliography:
a)
I
strongly suggest using Kate L. Turabian, A Manual for Writers of Term Papers, Theses and Dissertations (Chicago: The University of Chicago Press, latest edition) as this still
is the standard guide for writing term papers in the country.
b)
Footnotes
may either be at the bottom of the page or on a separate piece of paper at the
end of the text. However, footnotes
inserted in the text are not acceptable simply because there is very little
standard of agreement on their formatting and students invariably become
confused with them.
4. Since so many of our students are using word processing to prepare their research papers, I strongly recommend students use the spelling checker option to reduce the number of spelling and typographical errors. In addition, I strongly recommend students use a grammar checker to check the grammar of all written work.
5. Acceptable research materials are authored articles in scholarly academic journals (see bibliography at end), government hearings and other documents, internal research from an organization whether published or not, published books using original research rather than reviews of previously available research, and interviews. These are termed primary source materials. Newspaper and magazine articles are acceptable secondary source materials only if they are (1) authored and (2) used to supplement primary sources mentioned above. TEXTBOOKS ARE NOT ACCEPTABLE RESEARCH SOURCES OR DOCUMENTS. Go to the original sources themselves.
6. All students are urged to make a photo copy and/or backup copy of their case studies. Students who say they have submitted the case study and never received a grade must present evidence that they did in fact submit the case study; otherwise, no grade can be given under any circumstances.
7. First class case studies are expected in this course. Team efforts are not only acceptable, but encouraged. When time permits, oral presentations of the research by students will be required.
8. All case studies are carefully read and criticized. The best way to get an A for the case study is to do A quality work and follow this guide. Plagiarism is a major No No! Any student who plagiarizes his or her research will fail the case study and the course! GIGO!
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scholarly management
journals
(Partial Listing)
Administrative Science Quarterly
Decision Sciences
Group and Organization Studies
Industrial Relations
International Studies of Management and Organization
Journal of Business
Journal of Business Communication
Journal of Business and Psychology
Journal of Business Research
Journal of Management
Journal of Management Studies
Journal of Occupational Behavior
Journal of Occupational Psychology
Journal of Organizational Behavior Management
Management Science
Organizational Behavior and Human Decision Processes
Personnel Management
Personnel Psychology
Public Administration Review
Sloan Management Review