NEW YORK INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY
SCHOOL OF MANAGEMENT
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.
Dr. Hartman
Course Web Site
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.
Course Objectives
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To explain the social responsibilities and ethical duties of business.
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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.
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To explain that many of these environmental forces are global in
nature.
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To develop an understanding of the power of business to influence
its environment.
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To develop an understanding of the power of ideas in the business
environment
to
shape
the
business-government-society
relationship.
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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.
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To develop in students an ethical and philosophical basis for
making business decisions.
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To incorporate the knowledge of many fields through an
interdisciplinary approach by completing two case studies.
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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.
ACADEMIC INTEGRITY AND PLAGIARISM POLICIES
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
LIBRARY
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%.
Assignments
November
TOPICS AND CASE STUDIES
CHAPTER
3
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.
1
4
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.
2, 3
5
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.
4, 5
6
Lawrence & Weber, Organizational Ethics and the Law and 6, 7
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.
7
Lawrence and Weber, Business-Government Relations and 8, 9
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.
9
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.
10, 11
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.
12, 13
10
11
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.
14, 15
12
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.
13
16, 17
18, 19
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.
18
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.
CASE STUDIES
The Collapse of Enron
450
Odwalla and the E. Coli Outbreak
463
Merck, the FDA, and the Vioxx Recall 474
Kimpton Hotels’ EarthCare Program 484
Johnson & Johnson and the Human Life International
Shareholder Proposal 492
GlaxoSmithKline and AIDS Drugs for Africa 501
Nike’s Dispute with the University of Oregon 509
Shell Oil in Nigeria 520
The Transformation of Shell 531
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!
REFERENCE
Dictionary of Business Terms, 3rd edition (New York: Barron's Educational
Series, Inc., 2000).
Dictionary of International Business Terms, 3rd edition (New York: Barron's
Educational Series, Inc., 2004).
Dictionary of Personal Finance (New York: Macmillan Publishers, Inc., 1992).
The McGraw-Hill Pocket Guide to Business Finance: 201 Decision-Making
Tools for Managers (New York: McGraw-Hill, 1992).
The Vest-Pocket MBA, 3rd Edition. Penguin Books. 2004. ISBN 1-59184-0511
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SCHOLARLY MANAGEMENT JOURNALS
(PARTIAL LISTING)
Academy of Management Journal
Academy of Management Review
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