You are the Chairman of the Board of a well-known, publicly traded corporation. You are personally responsible for convincing the Board to fund a new product design that ultimately failed when it was placed on the market, causing extreme losses for the corporation. The shareholders now want to hold you personally responsible for all the losses to the corporation and have filed a derivative lawsuit in the name of the corporation in which you are the defendant. 

Case study Questions: 

Please describe how you would defend yourself using the Business Judgment Rule. Create and describe any facts you think will support your position under this Rule. Limit your facts to only those that will support your position under this Rule and no others.

You are the Chairman of the Board of a well-known, publicly traded corporation. You are personally responsible for convincing the Board to fund a new product design that ultimately failed when it was placed on the market, causing extreme losses for the corporation. The shareholders now want to hold you personally responsible for all the losses to the corporation and have filed a derivative lawsuit in the name of the corporation in which you are the defendant. Please describe how you would defend yourself using the Business Judgment Rule. Create and describe any facts you think will support your position under this Rule. Limit your facts to only those that will support your position under this Rule and no others.

1. Research the training requirements for your local police department (searching for the State’s POST requirements will help you with find this information)

2. Find 2 areas of training that you think are most valuable for police based on what you read this week, and based on the argument that police do not have good training- share these in the discussion board and tell WHY you think they are most valuable

3. Identify 2 areas where you think training is lacking in terms of how training in these areas would help the current state of police and community relations today and explain WHY you think the training is lacking and HOW training in these areas may improve policing and police/community relations.

Instructions

You have been tasked with speaking to a local governing body. Your purpose is to convince them to adopt FEMA’s all-hazards approach to emergency management, specifically as it relates to terrorism. You have decided that the best presentation mode would be to use a PowerPoint presentation.

Your presentation should at a minimum address the following items listed below.

• Explain the importance of emergency management within the framework of the homeland and national security structure.
• What political consequences might occur if an aggressive homeland security and national security plan was implemented?
• Briefly explain the all-hazards concept. Why should the all-hazards approach be considered for acts of terrorism?
• What are the potential risks of not incorporating an all-hazards approach into their community response plan?

1. Who can be found guilty of business crime and what is the key to establishing criminal liability? Using the Internet, research and post an example of a business crime committed in the last two years and all who were held criminally liable. (See the examples of types of business crimes in the chapter reading.)
2. When it comes to crime and privacy protection in the workplace, do private employees have a reasonable expectation of privacy? What about public employees? Why or why not? What is the test for the tort of invasion of privacy?
3. If management’s interest is to make sure its employees are productive, can management monitor computers, workstations, phones, et cetera? Why or why not?