Business Ethics

Please see your syllabus, which notes this assignment. For the following assignment, which is 10% of your overall grade for the course, please read the following articles in your "Course Documents":

-"Illegal Downloading..."
-"The Ethics of Expediency"
-"Articles about Successful Business People"
-"Facebook articles"

These articles all have a common thread - either what people are doing write or doing wrong.

I would like to use this information regarding the issues with social networking and ethics in the workplace, and use it to create a one page blog that goes a step further and explores the ethics of recent workplace issues. Go to CNN.com, MSN.com, HuffingtonPost.com, etc... and read articles that interest you about ethics in business. There are LOTS of problems around this issue today. You will need to write about either the ethics in business or ethics in social networking, or a combination of both. For example, using these articles as a springboard, you could write on the ethics of Goldman Sachs using risky schemes to post record profits in the last week, especially considering that we just bailed them out a few months ago for making bad decisions. Or write about lobbyists controlling the vote in Congress, so that big corporations are making decisions that benefit them but not the average person. Be creative. No one person's blog will resemble anyone else's blog. It needs to show research (note the article and date when you write) and I would like to see at least 2 noted sources when you write your piece. It might be easier to write it in Word first and then copy it over. Please do not use this as a sounding board for personal issues. It is fine to be personally interested in the piece, but it also needs to be researched and show fairness and impartiality. Your grade for this assignment is based on noting the sources within the article, addressing the directions for this blog, and showing thoughtfulness about what you are writing.

Weekly Reading Post

Dear Class:

As part of your participation grade, you will need to add a two paragraph comment on the reading for that week. I had considered assigning you questions, but decided to make it more open ended. I am looking for you to address information that you learned from the reading or that you particularly disagree with regarding the reading. It can be on any chapter for a test that is upcoming. This particular section of the blog will end on June 30th, as that is your last test. Make sure to save a copy of your own blogs as they roll through the four 1/2 weeks, as you will need to send them in total to me on 8/4.

Here are the reading due dates:

July 3rd - Chapters 1,3,4,5 (again, you can write on any chapter)
July 10th - 2,9,10,12,13
July 17th - 2,9,10,12,13
July 24th - 7,8,11
July 29th - 7,8,11

Please make sure that your comment closes with your class name so that I can follow who wrote it (first names are fine). Just add your writing to the "Comments" section of this blog.

General Business

Use this blogspot to ask and answer questions of and for your classmates. This section is entirely class operated. If your queries are not being answered suitably, then e-mail Wendy at wlblanc@clemson.edu and she will send a response to the class. Use the "comments" section to add responses for this www.clemson-writing304.blogspot.com site.

Thxs.

Wendy Blanchard