Analyze whether Superior would be liable for negligent hiring.

.Week 2 – Assignment

Negligent Tort Liability

[WLOs: 1, 2, 4] [CLOs: 1, 2]

Prior to beginning work on this assignment,

• Review Chapter 7 and Chapter 36 of the course textbook.

• Review the cases Malorney v. B&L Motor Freight, Inc., 496 N.C.2d 1086 (Ill. Ct. App. 1986) Download Malorney v. B&L Motor Freight, Inc., 496 N.C.2d 1086 (Ill. Ct. App. 1986), and Raleigh v. Performance Plumbing and Heating, 130 P.3d 1011 (Colo. 2006) Download Raleigh v. Performance Plumbing and Heating, 130 P.3d 1011 (Colo. 2006).

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• The Negligent Tort Liability paper

Superior Electrical

Superior Electrical (Superior) was in the business of installing electrical wiring and related components at new construction sites. Because some employees were assigned company vehicles equipped with company tools and materials and were expected to drive those vehicles to the work sites, Superior required all employment applicants to hold a valid driver’s license. Employees who were assigned a company vehicle were expected to drive for the company during the workday in order to transport job materials and company tools that were kept on the vehicle to job sites. These employees were expected to take the company issued vehicle home at the end of the work day.

Superior hired Cory Jones as an apprentice electrician. Jones had completed an employment application in which he stated that he had a valid driver’s license and had not been cited for any traffic violations. These statements were untrue. His license had been suspended because of numerous traffic violations, including careless driving and driving without a license. Superior did not check on his driving record at the time he was hired because, as an apprentice electrician, he was not being assigned a company vehicle and was not expected to drive for the company during the work day.

About a year after hiring Jones, Superior promoted him to electrician and assigned Jones a company vehicle equipped with a rack for transporting wiring and other materials to and from the work sites. Superior intended that Jones drive during the day for the company and to take the vehicle home after the end of the work day. On a later date, when Jones’s work hours had ended and he was driving home in the company vehicle, he collided with two cars. The collision resulted solely from Jones’s negligence. Carolyn Carson and her son were severely injured in the collision and they sued Superior. The Carson’s alleged two theories of recovery against Superior: respondent superior and negligent hiring.

• The Negligent Tort Liability paper

Superior Electrical

Write a four- to five-page paper that addresses the following:

• Identify and discuss the legal elements of negligent hiring.

• Apply those elements of negligent hiring to the facts given in the case.

• Analyze whether Superior would be liable for negligent hiring.

• Identify and discuss the legal elements of respondeat superior.

• Apply those elements of respondeat superior to the facts given in the case.

• Analyze whether Superior would be liable on respondeat superior grounds.

Impacts of Culture and Leadership: Describe the impact of culture and leadership on the employees and day-to-day business, providing examples.

Prompt

Revisit your Big Five personality assessment and the related journal assignment, and consider who you are as a leader. Think of the culture of an organization that you currently work for or have worked for in the past, and describe your role within it based on the organizational culture and your disposition.

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Organizational Culture: Describe the organizational culture of the organization of your choice. Consider the following in your response:

What is the organization’s mission and vision?

How have you seen the organization’s mission and vision reflected in daily activities such as communication, management approaches, priorities, and so on?

What does the organization value?

Impacts of Culture and Leadership: Describe the impact of culture and leadership on the employees and day-to-day business, providing examples. Consider the following in your response:

How did organizational culture play a role in the examples you provided?

In the examples you provided, was the communication or behavior aligned with the culture the organization promotes? Why or why not?

Leadership Style and Personality Traits: Discuss your leadership style and personality traits; focus specifically on how your leadership fits into an organizational culture. Consider the following in your response:

What traits make you a strong leader, and how does this connect to the organizational culture you described?

Guidelines for Submission

Your submission should be a 1- to 2-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins. Sources should be cited according to APA style.

Write a brief report to the director of retail operations that explains the management skills and practices you feel will improve team productivity and efficiency, using the module reading to support your recommendations.

Scenario

Imagine that you are an organizational consultant for the SNHU Pet Supply Company. The director of retail operations has asked you to evaluate the reason for some of the team’s drop in productivity and make recommendations for their improvement. Further conversations with the team members and managers reveal a conflict in the way productivity and efficiency is being measured and handled.

The team members say that their managers micromanage them. Each week, the managers send out a task list for the team and expect them to fill out detailed timesheets every day to cross-reference the task list. Any deviations from the list must be explained in a separate email. Moreover, some team members feel their skill sets are not being used correctly, and that they would be better suited to do tasks that are not being assigned to them. This has led to some resentment within the team, not to mention high levels of stress to meet the managers’ demands.

The managers maintain that they have just been following the process that’s been set out for years in the company. The many unresolved issues are taking a toll on the team’s productivity and efficiency, which then feeds back into the conflict, creating a vicious circle.

Prompt

Write a brief report to the director of retail operations that explains the management skills and practices you feel will improve team productivity and efficiency, using the module reading to support your recommendations.

 

Explain what elements of your personality assessment results surprised you, if any, and explain how accurate you felt the results were and why.

Prompt

After taking the Big Five personality traits assessment, reflect on the results. Consider how the assessment captured your traits and personality and how the results can be incorporated into your leadership style and approach. What strengths do your personality traits bring to your leadership style, and what are some of your opportunities for improvement?

Specifically, you must address the following rubric criteria:

Results Summary: Summarize your results of the personality assessment and how you think these elements might help or hinder you as a leader.

Describe Results: Explain what elements of your personality assessment results surprised you, if any, and explain how accurate you felt the results were and why.

Leadership Style: Pick two elements of your results and explain how they impact your leadership style.

Importance of Leadership: Describe how leadership impacts organizations and why it is important to understand this impact.

Guidelines for Submission

Your submission should be a 1- to 2-page Word document with 12-point Times New Roman font, double spacing, and one-inch margins.

Analyze the industry in Europe through the lens of the company.

illISIIIEA group would like to do a Market Launch Analysis and recommendation for expansion of Shopee in 2 European countries. Your team of Analysts ha been hired for this Project. Your team’s task is to give a “Go” or No-Go” decision to your Client’s Management for expansion in Europe. We expect the team to use data to make their specific decision. You have been invited for an analysis of: 114 Shopee Some guidelines:
– What is your Hypothesis? • Analyze the industry in Europe through the lens of the company. • What factors in the Europe economy were considered towards making your “Go” or “No-Go” decision? • Are there specific correlations in data points that need to be observed / shared? • What aspects of the Business Model should be considered / are noteworthy? • What financials of the company and/or other competitors / complimentary industry were considered towards making your decision? • What could be the Type I and Type II errors in the decision? What would be the implications of either of these errors? • If you recommend a “Go”, what elements in the ERRC / Value Innovation would you recommend your client to do? • If you recommend “No-Go”, what would you highlight/specify in terms of ERRC? • Your arguments should be supported by data, correlations, projections (regression). • You need to prepare a maximum 8 min. Pitch to state your decision and present your analysis to support your decision. Your pitch will be followed by 5-7 mins. of q&A from the Executive management of the Client. Your classmates will “role play” your Client’s Executive management. Your team will need to research publicly available information to get insights such as company/competitor financials, IBISWorld, PitchBook, WSJ and such trusted sources only.

Explain the differences, the size, and complexity of the different operations regarding personnel, organizational structure, operations policies, maintenance procedures, scheduling, and management, among other considerations.

Write a Module Case Study regarding the differences in aviation department organizational structures.
Analyze and evaluate the possible differences in the organizational structure of the in-house flight departments for a large corporation and an intermediate-size business. Explain the differences, the size, and complexity of the different operations regarding personnel, organizational structure, operations policies, maintenance procedures, scheduling, and management, among other considerations. Provide examples to support your contentions. Support your work by citing and referencing a reliable source(s).

Does Charles have a fiduciary duty to tell the car company’s shareholders? Why or why not?

learn about fiduciary duty. Fiduciary duty is the legal obligation of one person or party to act in the best interest of another person or party. A common example of fiduciary duty is when top management of an organization is acting in the best interest of the shareholders who own the organization.

Charles is the CEO of a car company. Charles knows that the car has a defect and should be recalled. If Charles recalls the car the company will go bankrupt. Does Charles have a fiduciary duty to tell the car company’s shareholders? Why or why not?