Great Class

Last year I took this class and it gave me a lot of insight of how corporations work. It was interesting to see how people will go to make sure that they make more money even if it means that they hurt people. Watching the corporation just showed that people feel that even if you are making lots of money sometimes its alright to break the rules and not worry about what people say. Enron was just the biggest thing because it showed that no matter what happens you can corrupt the system.

They managed to convince people that they were doing great and Jeff who was one of the main guys was in real trouble when we got caught. I think this class is also about yourself and what you can do to make things better in the corporate world. Corporate social responsibility is a huge trend right now and one which looks like its not going to end. Environment is probably the biggest part when it comes to sustainability. All in all it was a great class and I hope you enjoy it as much as I did and those cases really improved the way I approach analysing a business situation.
By Jared

Epistemology

For my first Blog I would like to talk about a word or study that was brought up during class, and that word is Epistemology. This is the study of How we know what we know and what is what we know. I found this very interesting when it was brought up in class and so I looked it up on the Internet. The most interesting thing I found was about Mathematics and how it is a known answer every time. There is no maybe; it is always either right or wrong. But, it isn’t knowing what we know that is the question; the question is how do we know what we know? I found this study very interesting because it isn’t about what we know is right or wrong; it’s all about HOW which boggles my mind. I read about a few different ideas of what some people think is the reasoning behind how we do know and some of them were crazy. They call this the “Regress Problem” and is shown as we know what we know through different types of familiarity. I read about these different ideas of how we know and found way to many to write about but they had me realize that we all learn and attain knowledge through experience. Any thoughts about that?

Mark Van Beek

The CSR Blog

Welcome Fleming CSR students for 2009!

This is your place to publicly have your say

-you can post links
-you can post pictures
-you can post documents
-you can post your opinions

We will talk about a lot of different topics and ideas.
We will debate some very serious social and business issues.
We will consider each others' opinions.

Hopefully we will grow - that is the whole purpose of an education:)

So everybody pitch in and post material and ideas and lets get this discussion started...

To be able to blog here - use the username/sign in name - lsmith@flemingc.on.ca

the password is powercourse

( that is because I also created a blog for my power course - feel free to visit that blog too -
www.powercourse.blogspot.com)

Once you are in - blog away! - make sure however that you use the CSR Blog not the power course one (but you are welcome there too.)

I am excited to see what you do with this.
Cheers,
Les