This is the area for discussion for the group working on the Coca Colacase found on p. 164 in the text. Indicate your interest to work on the Coca Cola case analysis with others in the class by posting here and begin to organize yourselves.

Organizing can consume more time when working online. Below are some suggestions that might help in thinking about to divide the responsibilities among the group and thus help your discussion develop more smoothly. You will probably need someone to assume the following roles: leader - organizer, one or two drafters for each of the questions, reviewers.

Someone will also need to integrate the answers and post the final document on the bulletin board. (There may be other roles that other group members identify.)

Suggestions for a successful group experience:

In real life, most policies are written by committees, not individuals.

You may want to model a committee for this assignment. (For example, elect a moderator or chair and a reporter or secretary.)

Make everyone's input public to ensure fairness in workload and opinion consideration.

Submit a first draft synthesizing everyone's input.

Then, have everyone provide additional comments, ask questions, and provide clarifications.

Then, submit a final refined policy. Be sure to note whether or not the final project is the result of a consensus or a majority vote, and who was for, who dissenting. That way each person's input and opinion will be fairly represented throughout the process.

A note to dissenters: Feel free to dissent. Please do so with a respectful tone and strong support of your arguments with authoritative resources.

A note to all: Please write me a note in the private folders if you have questions/concerns about the group process About evaluation for this project: Everyone's input (article review submission, discussion, etc.) will take form in the discussion forum. I will be evaluating individual input as well as participation in the process.

A note on participation: The problem of timely participation occurs in many group activities (in both online and face to face classes as well as "real life"). It's up to the group to determine your policy as to whether you wish to move forward with the members on board or wait for others to deliver (and risk not delivering as a group). The team can definitely decide to move forward without a given member's participation or contribution. I recommend setting a deadline for deliverables (for example, by Friday at 1 everyone must...). If someone is falling through with their assignment you might want to redistribute their task, or redesign the deliverable based on the loss of a team member. If decisions need to be made and people haven't responded by the deadline, I'd go ahead and make the decision with your group members who contributed their voice and vote. I am, of course, fully aware of who is contributing, to what degree, and within which timeframe. This will be reflected in each person's individual evaluation for the work.