Leadership and Organizational Behavior

Legal Political and Ethical Dimensions of Business

Instructor Explanation: Grade the student thusly: I. Running the elements of negligence (regardless of their outcome). Stating wrongful death as a theory. Discussing strict liability 402A. (1–15 points) II. Defense: contributory negligence, intervening causes, not foreseeable. (1–10 points) III. City of Los Angeles: negligence can be discussed; full credit if students discuss governmental immunity from lawsuits. (1–10 points) IV. No liability for Chi-Chi's due to intervening cause, unless you could show he was dead from puking/poisoning before he hit the fence. (1–5 points) Points Received: 30 of 40 Comments: -2135697179 Essay 3 False 0 -2135697179 Essay 3 4. Question : TCO D: Barney and his 16-year-old son BamBam are riding in Fred's car. Fred had taken some prescription medication that morning that stated on the bottle, "Warning, may cause drowsiness." The truck in front of them suﬀers a blow-out, and swerves uncontrollably. The tire remnants ﬂy into the road, Fred swerves and hits a car to his left. He avoids hitting the truck with the blow-out but suﬀers damage to the left side of his car. BamBam hits his head on the side of the car, getting a concussion and permanently losing the sight in his right eye. Fred has state law required auto insurance with the minimum policy limits. Fred's wife, Wilma, immediately calls Betty, BamBam's mom, and apologizes when she ﬁnds out about BamBam losing his eye. Wilma says to Betty, "Please don't worry. We will pay for anything the insurance doesn't cover, including the loss of BamBam's sight and anything else he needs to recover and live a normal life." Betty sobs and says, "You are too good to us. We can't accept that." Wilma says, "Of course you can." Betty cries harder and says, "Thank you so much but (unintelligible)" and hangs up. Fred and Wilma own a house worth $450,000, a car worth $20,000, a full-size T. rex skeleton for which a museum has oﬀered $200,000 in the past, and some stocks and bonds worth $700,000. A lawsuit ensues and a judgment against Fred and for BamBam is entered for $300,000. The insurance company paid their cap of $250,000, leaving $50,000 remaining due. Fred and Wilma immediately pay BamBam $50,000. Further, Wilma buys a designer eye-patch for BamBam made speciﬁcally by Calvin Klein with a picture of Fred and Wilma's daughter, Pebbles, on it. Wilma hugs BamBam when she brings over his new eye patch and says, "Anything. Anything you need. We will take care of it for you." Fred rolls his eyes at Barney, and Barney sighs and shakes his head. Betty and Wilma both cry at how adorable BamBam looks with his new eye patch. Barney buys BamBam a new car, specially designed for people with one eye. Wilma ﬁnds out and calls Betty, asking how much the car was. Betty says they are making payments on the car of $450/month for the next 4 years. Wilma writes Betty a check for $450, and sends her one every month for the next 8 months. Eight months after the judgment was rendered, BamBam is discovered to have more damage to his head than originally thought. He loses sight in his other eye and now is totally blind. BamBam's parents sue Fred and Wilma again for personal injury, but the case is thrown out as the ﬁrst case already decided the injury case. Fred refuses to pay more to BamBam, and he takes the checkbook away from Wilma when he discovers she's been making BamBam's car payments. The two families stop speaking to each other. BamBam throws away his now useless eyepatch and becomes despondent. His

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Steven Kelley MGMT591 Week 3 Case Study 5/25/14 Building a Coalition First off, we are dealing with a couple different issues. The Washington, DC. Public school system, just as most school systems, has seen a decline in student performance over the recent past. A few of the issues are truancy, low student performance and crime. Just when a new, up and coming teacher or faculty member gets there, they tend to burn out as they are met with harsh realities in the classroom. Part 1 – Group Development There are 5 stages in the development process of a group and each one plays an important role as you progress into becoming a fully functioning group. 1. Forming Stage – The group is starting to form. 2. Storming Stage – Intragroup conflict, resist constraints 3. Norming Stage – Relationships develop, demonstrate cohesiveness 4. Performing Stage – Fully functional, performing the task at hand. 5. Adjourning Stage – for temporary groups, wrapping up activities. In my opinion the group is stuck in the forming stage as they are still talking about the different candidates to put together to assemble the group. There has already been one group assembled, between the Woodson Foundation and the Washington, D.C. public school system and they have decided to form another group to focus on developing an experimental after school program. If all parties involved understood the group forming process, things might flow a little more smoothly. They would understand that the group would need to include people that were willing work together to assist in bringing back the quality of education. As I understand there is a process in reaching the final destination, the members that are selected to participate in the group also need to understand they were chosen for a reason. Part 2 – Problem Identification As with any group, there is always going to be conflict to some extent. In this case, there are a couple different groups from which the members of the group are going to be pulled from. The Woodson Foundation, the School system and a parental group, The National Coalition for Parental Involvement in Education (NCPIE) will all be supplying members to the group. The first issue I see and probably the most important one is that the school system has already mentioned that any new jobs that are created need to be unionized and will operate in a manner that is consistent with current school board policies. The school district is concerned they will lose control of the new operations if they are not holding the most dominant position. Second, and probably just as important, would be the demographic diversity issues of the affected regions. Most of the schools population is African American, along with Caucasians and Hispanics. The NCPIE typically has the same make-up of the student population, obviously as they are the parents of the students in the school system. Where the problem

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