Unit Four: Environment: Culture, Ethics, and Social Responsibility

Part One: Handouts and Exercises

1. Self-assessment : How Ethical is Your Behavior?  (Lussier, pages 61-62)

2. Organizational Assessment Tool

3. Corporate Culture Assessment

4. Business Ethics Questionnaire

5. Moral Sense Test

 Part Two: Email Application Activities

(Group assignment)  Email me a short essay summarizing your group's answers to the questions to the Video Case: Timberland (page 74 in Lussier)

(Individual assignment) Email me a memo with your results from the Skill-Builder 1: The Organizational Environment and Management Practices Analysis (Lussier, pages 74-75).  Answer these questions based upon where you work or have worked.

Part Three: Textbook Assignment

Read chapter  two in Lussier

Part Four: Unit Outline with Reading Assignments

I. The Internal Environment

II. Organizational Culture

    A. Four types of cultures identified by Jeffrey Sonnenfeld

        1. Academic

        2. Baseball    

        3. Club    

        4. Fortress

    B. Harrison's typologies of organizational culture

        1. Power

        2. Role

        3. Task

        4. Person

    C. Learning an organizational culture

        1. Heroes

        2. Stories

        3. Slogans

        4. Symbols

        5. Ceremonies

    C. Levels of culture

        1. Behavior

        2. Values and Beliefs

        3. Assumptions

    D. Managerial Values Across Cultures

III. The External Environment

    A. Stakeholders

        1. Customers

        2. Competition

        3. Suppliers

        4. Labor Force

        5. Shareholders

        6. Society

        7. Government

    B. Other 

        1. Technology

        2. Economy

IV. Business Ethics

V. Social Responsibility

    A. The manager and ethics

    B. Levels of social responsibility

        1. Social involvement

        2. Social Reaction

        3. Social obligation

        4. Social obstruction