Take My Liberty BUSI 570 Class

BUSI 570 pairs two very different books. Hess and Cameron profile real organizations that lead with values and still perform well, while Rae and Wong offer a Judeo-Christian framework for working through ethical dilemmas.

The first weeks take up Hess and Cameron's argument that virtue and performance are not enemies, drawing on research in positive organizational scholarship.

Rae and Wong's readings run every week, covering the major ethical frameworks, consequences and principles among them, and how a biblical worldview weighs them.

The middle of the course moves to an organization's culture and the leader's part in shaping it, which is where the case study is written.

The final weeks turn to sustaining ethical cultures through growth and leadership change, the subject of the last forum and the group presentation.

A graduate business program assessment in week three carries no points but is part of the course.

The ethics journal follows the Rae and Wong readings each week and is submitted at the end, written in the first person without research.

Every module adds a recorded lecture to the reading.

Hess and Cameron's chapters profile real companies, from manufacturers to health systems, that built performance on virtues such as integrity and compassion.

The Rae and Wong selections cover topics such as honesty in advertising, the ethics of layoffs and the stewardship of capital, each from a Judeo-Christian standpoint.

BUSI 570 runs on two-week forum cycles, with the case study and the group work woven between them.

Threads hold the chapter's company up against what researchers know about ethical culture, then say what a leader should take from the comparison.

Replies to two classmates follow the next week, each about 200 words with two scholarly sources.

By week three the case study has its company and its virtue, chosen because the evidence of one living out the other is on public record. It is written in the style of Hess and Cameron's own chapters.

Group work starts when the members' papers are finished, merging their virtues into one company's credo with slides to match.

Journal answers are drafted each week in the first person from the notes you share, so they reflect your own decisions rather than a summary of the reading.

You post each item and record any narration yourself.

Each case study draws on independent evidence, such as business press accounts and research, rather than the company's own marketing.

Journal entries are drafted from your notes each week, so they record real reflection rather than a summary written at the end.

Your BUSI 570 writer has studied business ethics formally and has usually helped a company put its values into words.

That background matters because the case study must show a value in action, and someone who has studied organizations knows what counts as evidence rather than slogans.

They know the positive organizational scholarship research that Hess and Cameron draw on, which supports the forums.

They handle the biblical worldview with care, working through dilemmas with the frameworks in Rae and Wong rather than quoting verses in isolation.

A second reviewer reads every item before you receive it, and one writer stays with your course.

Only the coordinator knows your name. If a framework is unclear, a short explanation can be sent with the next delivery.

Several have taught business ethics, which shows in how they handle dilemma prompts.

They have read Rae and Wong closely and use its frameworks fluently.

The case study is the first difficulty. An organization's website will claim many values, but the paper needs documented evidence that one value shapes real decisions.

Sources are the second. Every thread needs three scholarly sources beyond the text, and every reply two, which adds up to about thirty over the term.

The group work is the third, since the 4-to-5-page paper and the narrated presentation depend on every member's case study arriving on time.

The journal is the fourth. It looks easy because it needs no research, but honest reflection on your own decisions takes more thought than a summary.

Ethical dilemmas in the forums are the fifth, because weighing two frameworks and showing where a biblical worldview resolves the tension needs careful reasoning.

Week seven holds both the group presentation and a forum thread.

A company with a public scandal that cuts against its stated value makes a weak case study, however famous it is.

The group's credo paper must integrate several virtues, not list them, and that requires agreement among members who may never meet.

Booked early, the first thread is in your hands within days.

Odd weeks bring threads; even weeks bring replies.

The case study arrives several days before the end of week five, and your group work share ahead of your group's internal date in week seven.

Journal entries arrive week by week, ready to assemble for week eight.

The case study is the largest line, then your group share and the forums, with the journal smaller. A mid-term start is quoted from the next item due.

Each forum is one line on the quote, replies included, and every piece arrives as an editable file.

Journal weeks you have already written are left off the quote.