Learning Activity #1 (to be posted)Please read the following fact pattern and address all three of the questions. Only discuss relevant issues!  I am not as interested in your outcome (who will end up winning) as I am in how you use the law to support your points. Base your answer only on facts given. If additional information is needed, tell me that. Your answers should be about 200 words.McBain Truck Company had an established rule that its truck drivers were not allowed to carry passengers in the trucks. Further, this rule was included in the contract between the union and the company. Balsom, a driver for McBain, invited a friend to ride in his truck on a day’s delivery trip. As a result of Balsom’s carelessness during the trip, the truck was involved in a collision and his friend was seriously injured.a. Is the employer responsible to third parties for injuries caused by an employee in the normal performance of employment? b. Would Balsom be held responsible for the injuries? c. Is an employer liable to third parties for all actions of an employee?Learning Activity #2 (to be posted) Instructions: Please choose ONE of the three questions to answer. Do not give yourself extra work by answering all three questions. 1) Helena, the purchasing agent for Cassadine Inc., contacts five different suppliers to obtain price quotes for office supplies she needs to order. The price for the identical office supplies ranges from a high of $855 to a low of $500, includ­ing shipping and handling charges. As purchasing agent, Helena has complete autonomy on selecting suppliers and on placing orders up to $5,000; before placing orders in excess of $5,000, she must get signed authorization from the company’s comptroller. A. If Helena purchases the supplies from the most expensive supplier because she is angry at her employer for turning down her recent request for a raise, what duty of an agent has she breached? What are Cassadine’s remedies? B. Helena purchases a $20,000 computer system from Alpha Inc., a dealer she has never ordered from, but who knows Helena is the purchasing agent for Cassadine. If Cassadine refuses to accept the system when it arrives, what argument will Alpha make for Cassadine’s liability? What will be Cassadine’s defense? 2)Brandon is a traveling salesperson for Best Publishing Co. His job is to drive around to bookstores and persuade them to stock Best publications. One day, while on his way to his next appointment in College Park, Brandon accidentally rear-ends Emily. A. Has Brandon committed a tort? What will Emily have to prove to hold Best liable? B. Assume Brandon uses his own car, sets his own hours, decides without direction from Best what bookstores to visit, and is paid according to how many books he places in bookstores. What kind of agent is Brandon? How does this affect Best’s liability? C. Assume Brandon takes directions from Best on most aspects of his job. While stopping to get gas, Brandon gets into a fistfight with the station attendant, who makes a negative comment about Brandon’s favorite base­ball team. Brandon injures the attendant. If the attendant sues Best, what will Best argue to avoid liability?3) A buyer, wishing to buy a Christmas gift for her husband, visits a computer store and asks the salesperson to recommend a laser printer. She tells the sales­person that the printer must print at a minimum of 12 pages per minute at a minimum resolution of 1200 dots per inch (dpi) and must have a duty cycle of at least 10,000 copies per month. The salesperson recommends a low-end printer on sale that week but fails to mention that it prints at a speed of only 8 pages per minute and is rated for not more than 5,000 copies per month. A. Has the salesperson breached any express warranty? B. Has the salesperson breached any implied warranty? Explain. C. If the salesperson demonstrates a color printer that meets all of the sell­er’s requirement but then sells her a cheaper monochrome laser printer instead, has he breached any warranty?Please use in-text citations and references.Chapter 38-39http://www.saylor.org/site/textbooks/Business%20Law%20and%20the%20Legal%20Environment.pdf

Your first task for the final component of the Session Long Project is to write a 4- to 5-page essay (utilizing at least 3–5 references) in which you discuss how your program evaluation plan incorporates accountability and ethics in the evaluation process for PEPFAR. Identify and explain anticipated ethical issues in evaluating your chosen program.

Upon successful completion of this discussion, you will be able to: Evaluate the balance between fiduciary and social responsibilities.  Appraise situations containing ethical and legal compliance issues. Synthesize the interrelatedness of biblical principles and the ethical and legal fabrics in American society.  Examine the usefulness of specific ethical frameworks to decision making. Instructions Read Chapter 5 in your Meeting the Ethical Challenge of Leadership textbook. Read the article: Fiduciary Duty and Social Responsibility. Watch Onshoring vs. Offshoring (Outsourcing Domestically vs. Abroad): One Minute Explanation/Comparison. Read the article: Janitor Uprising highlights tensions over outsourcing. After engaging with the resources above, focus on the prompts below that coincide with the first letter of your last name. Last Name A-M You are the financial manager of Inotech Corp. Inotech provides goods and services for a wide range of customers and many products contain proprietary information in which confidentiality is important. The CEO has expressed the desire to trim operating costs.  At the next board meeting you are to present your ideas.  Your best idea has been to “outsource or onshoring” your janitorial staff to a large but local janitorial service. Inotech’s janitorial team consists of 20 employees at the Indiana facility and 20 employees at the Ohio facility.  Your post will be your argument of why outsourcing janitorial services will be the best way to trim costs. Be sure to utilize your guidelines for negotiating that you developed in Workshop 3. Define outsourcing/onshoring. Analyze and construct at least two clear and well-supported arguments for outsourcing the janitorial service to a local company. Identify and apply one ethical framework from Chapter 5 that supports your stance on outsourcing (Utilitarianism, Kant’s Theory, Justice as Fairness, Pragmatism, and Altruism). Demonstrate how your stance is ethical for the company based on the application of your ethical framework. Discuss the fiduciary duties and social responsibility at play in this situation. Last Name N-Z You are the production manager of Inotech Corp.  Inotech provides goods and services for a wide range of customers and many products contain proprietary information in which confidentiality is important.  It has come to your attention that the CEO has expressed the desire to trim operating costs. You have heard that the Financial manager has decided to present the idea of “outsourcing/onshoring” the janitorial staff to a local service.  Inotech’s janitorial team consists of 20 employees at the Indiana facility and 20 employees at the Ohio facility. You plan to attend the meeting to express why you believe this is not the best option. Your post will be your argument of why outsourcing janitorial services will not be the best way to trim costs. Be sure to utilize your guidelines for negotiating that you developed in Workshop Three. Define outsourcing/onshoring. Analyze and construct at least two clear and well-supported arguments for not outsourcing the janitorial service to a local company. Identify and apply one ethical framework from Chapter 5 that supports your stance on outsourcing (Utilitarianism, Kant’s Theory, Justice as Fairness, Pragmatism, and Altruism). Demonstrate how your stance is ethical for the company based on the application of your ethical framework. Discuss the fiduciary duties and social responsibility at play in this situation.