Responsibility

Liberty v/s Responsibility Liberty is the most valued and sought after outcome of any political society. It is a mark of a productive and prosperous society where people enjoy a set of fundamental rights for e. g. :- right to free speech, fair trial, etc. On the other hand social responsibility towards others and oneself unites the community and increases social well-being. Various political philosophers have come up with different ways to prioritize one over the other and some have believed to strike a balance between the two.

This leads to an interesting political debate that at what point we draw a line etween liberty and responsibility, where in we have maximum liberty and minimum responsibility. In this paper I assert the libertarian political thought which resolves this debate by striking a fine balance between liberty and responsibility. To support my argument, I apply the ideas of John Locke who was a 17th century classical liberal philosopher (for first reason) and much of libertarian political thought is inspired from his works. For second reason I apply the ideas of libertarian philosopher Friedrich Hayek.

Towards the end I discuss the principles of libertarianism which clearly address this conflict. The first reason is the primary reason why people have desire to loot or plunder and that reason is scarcity. Scarcity is also the main reason why we have to follow a set of rules and act responsibly. If there were no scarcity, then there would be a surplus of goods and resources for everyone and any person’s wishes and desires would be fulfilled no matter how unlimited they were and his/her actions would have no consequence on anybody else. But we do live in a world where there is scarcity and that cannot be avoided.

So, we have to interact and exchange goods with one another and that involves a set of rules for social conduct. In this context, John Locke believed in the rightful accumulation of property (scarce good) by mixing labor with natural resources (Nozick 175). He didn’t believe in accumulation of property via coercion, fraud or theft. As far as the extent of accumulation is concerned he believed that too much property should not be consumed that very little is left for others because that would hinder someone else’s right to accumulation of private property.

Nozick had given this a term “Lockean Proviso” (Nozick 175). Applying the Lockean proviso to the conflict between liberty and responsibility, in the presence of carcity, there has to be a certain set of responsibilities that people need to fulfill (mentioned above, Locke called them “natural laws” (Korab)) mainly including the one where they don’t over-consume resources so that less is left for others and at the same time enjoy the liberties granted by the social contract. It’s important to note that the responsibilities are optimum that if there are more or less responsibilities there will be less to no liberty.

The second reason is that responsibility is important for liberty to exist is that it encourages good decision making by making people accountable for their actions. Friedrich Hayek in his book “Constitution of Liberty’ said that a free society depends more than any other on people being held responsible for their actions (“American Spectator”) Applying his idea, in lite it one is awarded tor achieving a set ot goals by the proper use of resources he/she was provided with, then that person should also not be helped and made to suffer the consequences of making a bad decision.

In the long term, this suffering will help him make better decisions. Additionally, if the person doesn’t suffer the consequences, he/she will develop a propensity for xcessive risk taking which wouldn’t be good for the society. Another implication of not taking responsibility is that someone else ends up taking responsibility for it and then that person has a right to curb the latter’s freedom. For e. g. :- if the government decides to bailout a firm which didn’t make right decisions, then the government will force the company to take some hard decisions which might go against the interests of the people in that company.

So, learning to take responsibility from bad choices increases self-ownership and thereby upholds one’s liberty. It also improves one-self hich is always beneficial towards society. Libertarianism has two main principles: the non-aggression principle and the preservation of individual rights and private property (“Libertarianism”). According to Libertarianism these are the only two responsibilities the person owes to other people in the community. He/she ought not to show aggression and encroach upon any other person’s rights in the community.

Any responsibility more than that comes at the cost of liberty. Based on the reasons that I gave, Libertarianism strikes a fine balance between liberty and responsibility by not placing laws that achieve a specific outcome unlike a eviathan government. At the sane times the laws that it places are minimal and only lead to a further expansion of liberty among all. One doesn’t want too many laws because that leads to a powerful government where there is no liberty and one also can’t manage not having any laws because scarcity and greed will lead to a state of war of “one against all”.

Libertarianism gives a solution that is somewhere between those two extremes. To conclude, libertarianism believes in the importance of individual liberty which can be found in the fundamental rights that people enjoy and duties/responsibilities hich people are obligated to follow. It’s important for fundamental duties to exist because without which liberty won’t exist. However, responsibility wouldn’t have any meaning in the absence of liberty and that it derives its existence from the presence of the latter.

Buss. Ethics Why do companies engage in corporate social responsibility? ~ Companies engage in CSR in order to maintain a business on track to do the right thing. However, there’s three reasons that keeps a business engage with CSR. Pragmatic, where the term “use power or loose it” is used , this mean that if businesses are not responsible certain advantages could be taken away. Ethical reason, is when businesses have a responsability to behave ethically, this mean that executives’ duty is to care about multiple stakeholders. The last reason is the strategic one, which is based identifying activities that can harm the business. . Do you believe that employees are more attracted and committed to socially responsible companies? Why or why not? Are you? Why or why not? ~Yes i truly believe so because they will be certain that the company stays on task and ethically manages situations. However, they will have in mind that they are working in an ethical environment and that they must work hard to keep it up that way. I know i will certainly be attracted more attracted to these companies because first of all, The social responsible environment will motivates me to do a good job. 3.

A number of organizations have robust sustainability sections on their internet sites. Pick two and highlight what they are doing regarding sustainability, as well as compare and contrast. Interface Global: http://www. interfaceglobal. com/Sustainability ~ This organization has considerable resolutions on 3 key areas; They are, +reducing footprint +designing and manufacturing innovative products with less enviromental and social impacts. +creating a culture with engaged employees with a share vision of sustainable businesses. • Wal-Mart: http://walmartstores. om/Sustainability/ ~ This organization is trying to make customers save money and help ensure a better world for generations to come. In order to do so they’ve set three aspirational sustainability goals: +To be supplied 100% by renewable energy

+To create zero waste +To sell products that sustain people and the environment Overall, both organization have something in common, which is trying to maintain a sustainable business and a good environment. 4. Read the case. What is River Blindness and who are the stakeholders in the Merck case. The River Blindness case is a disease that is cause by parasitic worms that live in the small black flies that breed in the rivver of the countries if middle east, Africa, and LAtin America. When a person is bitten by one of these blaack flies, the larvae of the worm can entern the person’s body, reproduce and spread out causin the person itchiness and blindness. ~ The stackeholders for Merck are individual with disease, horses, Merck, and Merck scientists 5. Explain why socially responsible business is good business.

Social Responsible business is good business because Being socially responsible creates goodwill and a positive image for the business. Trust and a good reputation are some of the company’s most valuable assets. In fact, without these, a business can’t function. These important assets can be encourage by being socially responsible. However, it is crucial the right socially responsible program is plan for the business. When used properly, it will open up a countless of new relationships and opportunities. It will grow success and the company’s culture. It will become a culture that the company’s staff and the whole community will believe in.

In Malaysia, it was critical for the accounting profession to be concerned with more than just profit and loss. It should recognise the impact of businesses have in the environment. According to the study commissioned by ACCA in the state of environmental reporting in Malaysia, only 7. 7% KLSE main board companies were engaged in some form of environmental reporting in 2001. However, the number of reporting number increased from 25 in 1999 o 35 in 2000 and to 40 in 2001. Environmental report contains two major parts that is non-financial disclosure and financial disclosure.

Today, people tend to concern more on the non-financial disclosure rather than the financial disclosure. So, what is meant by non-financial disclosure of environmental report? It means when a company involved in an environmental matter, (such as throwing chemical wastage that destroy the marine ecological cycle in the sea; the destroy of great volume of trees; smoke emission by manufacturer and etc. ), it is the responsibility of the company to respond to the stakeholders on how it will react to such destroy to the environment.

For instance, when a company destroyed a great volume of trees, is the company going to replant it? How much would be the investment made by the company to rescue such impact? In this section, the company will disclose the extent of the environmental impact of its operations, products and services, and the efforts of the company to reduce such impacts in the environmental report. Now, let’s view what should be the ideal contents of the environmental report specifically prepared to the environmentalist: An environment report may start with statement of potential risk.

This is a report that requires the company to be frank to the shareholders as to what extent of risk that the company is encountering and will encounter. Although it sounds a bit ridiculous, where it is likely to de-motivate the confidence of the investors, it shows that the company is responsible to enclose the risks to the public. A company that is brave to enclose the statement of potential risk means that the company has a very stabile position, as if it dares to be frank to the shareholders, it must have a very good backup plan to solve the problems or risks.

By showing a statement of potential risk, this is likely to show the information presented contains with the greatest extent of transparency, which in the financial users point of view, they gain the advantages in advance through the analysis of the background of the company. Of course, by hinting the potential risk, the company must enclose some clues of handling these risks efficiently. As a result of this, rationale investors are capable to make much more worth economic decisions. For instance, the British American Tobacco Company disclosed a page of this statement, telling that its products carry risk:

Smoking is, among others, a cause of serious diseases such as lung cancer, pulmonary heart disease, and if you smoke, you may stand a higher risk of contracting these serious illnesses – which drives our often stated position that we market cigarettes only to adult who have made the decision to smoke and aware of the risks associated with smoking. In trying to be responsible, we believe we have to fully under stand what is considered responsible. This is not to say that we have not played our role as responsible corporate citizens in the past.

Our track recording fulfilling our wider Corporate Social Responsibility, through contributing towards economic development, social causes, sound business partnerships, employment opportunities, speak for itself. However, by embedding the principles of Corporate Social Responsibility, and engaging stakeholders in forums such as dialogue, and reporting back to society through our Social Reporting process, we will demonstrate that we are carrying out our commercial activities consistent with reasonable public expectations of a responsible tobacco company.

On the other hand, it also referred to Corporate Social Responsibility. Companies are increasingly recognising the importance of adopting a social, ethical and environmentally responsible approach to business activity and entering into dialogue with all group of stakeholders. Reporting is slowly evolving from simply reporting the amount of charitable donations in the annual report to including additional activities, which the company considers to be of key interest. The reporting might be brief but gives an attractive picture if a company’s social responsibility.

For example, the 2001 Kingfisher Annual Report has a brief two pages section for social responsibility in which it gives information on: Besides, an Environment Policy Statement should be disclosed. The primary purpose of adopting an environmental policy is as a guide to future action. It therefore needs to be informed by reliable data on the organisation’s environmental interactions, consist of commitments which are as specific as possible and be supported by as many mechanisms for turning the policy into specific targets as can be established.

The specific targets, which should be transitory and developing, should be referred to in the policy itself. It makes considerable sense for any initial environmental policy statement to be a draft only. Once the organisation has carried out environmental reviews, assessed its own environmental position and assessed the feasibility of its environmental goals, then it can turn the draft into the ‘real thing’ in the knowledge that the policy is feasible and can be long-lived document.

Only then, the organisation can consider publishing the statement. This environmental policy statement, not only do they establish the first approximation for the evolution of environmental objectives, they will reflect the particular orientation of the organisation; signal information to employees, customers and suppliers; as well as provide a hostage to fortune by announcing parameters of acceptable activity within the public domain. The process of developing the environmental policy is not without its problem.

One company, for instance, was concerned that: this emphasis on environment policy is in danger of overshadowing other areas of policy. Isn’t environmental policy just one more part of the organisation’s general policy? Shouldn’t we be making the same fuss about health and safety for example? Indeed, it seems most appropriate that the organisation should have a general mission and policy statement, but backed up by detailed policies in the appropriate areas – including environment, health and safety.

The best-known recent example is the ‘Valdez Principles’ [see Appendix for Valdez Principles], which it is intended, should be adopted by all companies with aspirations to being ‘green’. The principles were derived by the Social Investment Forum in North America in the wake of the Exxon Valdez tragedy. The group claim the backing of many large investors who claim control of 150 billion dollars of assets. Corporations are invited publicly to sign the principles as a demonstration of their belief in them and their intended adherence to them.

The large investor will only invest or continue investing in those corporations who have signed. Then, it is ideal to include a report of the projects undertaken relating to the environment issues. This report should consist of the definition and objective of the projects undertaken. Besides, under this report, the organisation must identify all the feasible options of the projects undertaken and conduct qualitative and quantitative analysis of options’ environmental impact.

There must be a clear, objective presentation of the information relevant to the choice in order to select the Best Practicable Environment Option (BPOE), which provides the most benefit or least damage to the environment as a whole, at an acceptable cost, in the long term as well as the short tem. Next, the organisation mush has choice examined by individuals independent of the initial choice and, implement and monitor performance against expected or desired criterion.

The disclosure of activity and performance of what the company is doing, its voluntary undertakings and a statement of its performance against the standards set in law and quasi-law and its own personally set targets, should not be ignored as well! A minimum inclusion here will be emission levels, noise level and toxic waste as well as recycling or ‘clean’ waste activity. For instance, The Shell Report disclosed the level of emissions caused by the business operation to the environment and its effort to reduce this impact: We recognise that the use of our products, particularly fuels, can contributes to both global and local air emissions.

Our efforts to reduce this impact include expanding the availability of unleaded petrol for use in cars with catalytic converters (Shell sells more unleaded petrol than any other oil company), low sulphur petrol and diesel and liquefied petroleum gas (LPG). Then, there is a need to disclose how efficient use of natural resources by the company, such as energy, water, land and etc. to reduce the costs and respects the needs of future generations. The efficient use of natural resources is believed to be the advantage to the company as this can save cost for maximum utilisation.

Analysis of Issues

The company Zara uses resources that are to fully utilize the labor regardless of the process-making which contains harmful substances in the production of goods. The stakeholder however has the power to stop the unethical incidents including making an event for the prevention of harm towards the customers. The company concerns about cost saving and efficiency to be made in Taiwan, however, could cause harm that endanger the wearer and unethical issues. Customers are warned to be attentive to the country of origin and material tags during shopping. The items are less costly to fit to the market demand however did not estimate unexpected incidents from happening such as the risk of having skin problems, rashes and so on.

Zara was detected with 63 per cent of the 141 samples contains (NPE) and plasticisers, the cancer-causing materials in clothing however there is no regulations against industrial NPE usage in Taiwan. Even though there is an appeal not to use the chemical, the company that takes too long to promises to eliminate hazardous materials until 2020. The company has less corporate social responsibility and ineffective quality control compared to other brands such as Adidas that has zero discharge of hazardous materials. The costs include to switch to high quality materials and environment friendly disposal process with benefits includes staying ahead in healthcare reform and educating members on the impact of legislation due to environment policy.

Unlike other clothing brands that provide toxicant-free product, Zara was the only retailer with items that had both NPEs and toxic amines, also the only brand with nine out of the 10 samples found to contain NPE in the assessment of Greenpeace. The hazardous materials contribute to human health and water pollutions where the garments are manufactured. This detection will create doubt and wariness for customers to ban this brand or find alternatives. The market shareholders that engage in economic transaction are responsible in environment concern to provide society safer and durable goods and services.

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Responsibility theory is like human responsibility, social responsibility and is related to legal responsibility. It is an ethical theory that says, everyone has its responsibility and are accounted to the society whether an individual, a bigger one like a town, a company, or the government. It is of importance to basically magnify its simple principles. Social responsibility is the answer to the inquiries on why people are subjected and often times ending up in to blaming, admonishing, and punishing each other.

It is simply voluntary; it is on the subject of giving more than, further than and beyond what is called for by the law or the “legal responsibility”. Wherein you a person is accounted and responsible not because there exist a law, a rule, or an order from a higher being in position. There exists a basis of volunteerism. Diffusion of Responsibility Theory If you have a neighborhood or someone who is in trouble or in a snag and a group of people are standing, watching around, they usually tend to do nothing. This common scenario has been well studied.

Distinctively, the idea of diffusion of responsibility is merely cycling in this. The theory here is that responsibility diffuses or disperses across and among the group such that no individual could feel enough and aware himself enough to step forward and get involved. Some analogous situations may also occur like in situations in committees, when a thing has been existing around them waiting to be accomplished yet ignored after sometime, students are subjected to the establishment of blame, admonishment and punishment.

And in this case, responsibility theory has some noteworthy advantages. Social responsibility in a huge way is important for it is a principled, moral or ideological theory that a person whether it is an administration, a conglomerate, an organization or an individual has accountability to the society or the general public. This theory is voluntary: it is on the subject of giving more than, further than and beyond what is called for by the law. This “called for by the law” is simply the “legal responsibility” and this is somehow not in the boundaries of volunteerism principles.

Wherein you a person is accounted and responsible not because there exist a law, a rule, or an order from a higher being in position. In here, a person can’t promise a free accountability for his people. It is out of his deep willingness to do a certain thing and only accounted and responsible when he is obliged by something: for example, it could be a law or a rule. To explain this topic further, let us have this simple basis example. By law, a conglomerate’s or a corporation’s main responsibility is to produce money (income) as much as possible for shareholders and make it a point that they obey the law.

Social responsibility even with no contact onto the people involve, accompanies organizations being responsible for the people as well as for the environment they affect. This organizations or companies have the ethics, moral responsibility to do so with regards to their power and influence. They certainly have this dominance or power to help people or, could be at the least, not harm them. This responsibility theory is a principle of law that connoting every being whether it is a small group like village, town, or the big ones like companies, government or could be just an individual has its own accountability to the society.

In this responsibility theory, I couldn’t miss out mentioning these two universal rules because I believe it somehow relates each other and crosses each others’ principle. First is, The Golden Rule: Do unto others what you want others do unto you. And second, The Utilitarian Principle: here is where you behave in a way that could result in for the benefit of the greatest number and for the greatest good. The connection among them is like this.

Let’s say, some people emphasize that industries or companies have no responsibility (social responsibility) other than to augment their firms, enlarge returns, and abstain or desist from appealing in deception and fraud. It just means that the more they seek to maximize returns; they almost more often than not incidentally do what is good for the society. Building on the diffusion of the theory of responsibility and added subject matter- volunteerism, one way or another certainly it squabbles that a sense of responsibility originate transversely the personal and social domains of individuals who volunteer.

Motivation and Empowerment Evelyn Hamilton, Aaron Pobleh and Regina Taylor CJA/474: Managing Criminal Justice Personnel November 26, 2012 Instructor: Pam McIver The term motivation and empowerment is a universal concept that is hoped to work towards the good of any organization. Motivation and empowerment does not come from rewards to employees but instead, recognition, responsibility and advancement. Leaders who are effective in motivating and empowering their staff have acquired a great achievement, which can increase efficiency, and self development of skills and abilities.

When employers are concerned about the welfare and needs of their staff, this provides trust among staff. The purpose of this paper is to compare motivation and empowerment, define the components of empowerment, analyze the implications of empowerment and delegation in a criminal justice organization and analyze the role of trust in personnel issues. Compare motivation and empowerment Motivation and empowerment are two words that are very popular in every workplace. Generally when one mention motivation, everyone would think it is what employer gives their employees, unfortunately, motivation in the workplace goes way far beyond that.

Motivating your employees gives them authority to do more work for you and do it better. According to businessdictionary. com, motivation is both internal and external factors which desire and energize people to become committed to a job, role, or subject, or to strive to reach a goal. While empowerment is management practices which allow the sharing of information, power, and rewards with employees so that they can take initiative, and make decision to solve problems, and improve themselves as well as enhance their performance (www. usinessdictionary. com). Everyone need to feel empowered regarding their work ethic on the job or being assertive in and changes, but without the key elements of self-motivation, assertiveness and the ability to make good decision how would they be able to motivate others. Mangers of an organization should show through their behavior and actions how provide the necessary skills to be productive and efficient. This in turn will produce happier employees. Define the components of empowerment

In order to be an effective leader a person would need to be empowering by those below them and therefore allow them to take initiative on their own. A leader that has poor management skill fails to empower anyone underneath him. For example, an office manager as well as a beginner officer within the work place or in the field must feel good about performing on their own and not feeling they will be overly scrutinized regarding their errors. They must not fear the aftermaths or punishments for taking individual decision making.

When this happens, employees began to shun management for fear always doing something wrong. Employers should provide positive communication to their staff (National Empowerment Center). There was a research designed to examine the concept word of empowerment in this programs sponsored by multiple examiner of the criminal justice it was first anticipated to create a working definition. After research the “elements of empowerment were identified, including access to information, ability to make choices, assertiveness, and self-esteem. Empowerment has both an individual and a group dimension (Tom Roger, 2011).

This research studied participants in self-help programs for people with no self-motivation and the need for encouragement. At the beginning of the study,” it was stated numerous of the individuals involved empower in their research. It’s obviously the important theory concerning the essential to defining meaning of empowerment as part of the development. Although it “recognized that empowerment had elements in common with such concepts as self-esteem and self-efficacy, these concepts did not fully capture what was considered a distinctiveness about empowerment” (Tom Roger, 2011).

In an earlier “debates empowerment was” considered “complex, multidimensional concept, and that it described a process rather than an event”. It was never “believe that an individual had to display every quality on the list in order to be considered” empowered (Tom Roger, 2011). Analyze the implications of empowerment and delegation in a criminal justice organization Today the style and practices of police leadership is changing rapidly. The term shared leadership is one being used by many police chiefs all across the country.

They believe that this approach to management by sharing power and influence to individuals within the organization, who are otherwise hierarchical unequal, will view their leadership as a leadership which looks at the broader aspect of giving authority to employees which will allow them to make decisions, solve problems, and be held accountable for their actions (Mussellwhite, 2007). Whenever officers are empowered they become dedicated to their jobs. Because they are given the skills, resources, authority, opportunity to be motivated and committed to their jobs, roles, or duties.

Something which is refers to as being dedicated. Employees empowerment in a police department which delegate assignments, allow officers to take responsibility of their jobs results. It also allows them to make decisions about it. When officers are delegated with responsibilities, it makes them think in decision making, take control, behave, and take actions responsively, because they know that they will be held accountable for their actions. Police departments that apply employee empowerment create an environment in which their officers are empowered, productive and are happy in their jobs.

Such police departments do not limit their employees to information (Heathfield, 2012). Analyze the role of trust in personnel issues. The role of trust in personnel issues involves how employees relate and respond to their employer. For example, if an employer is more concerned about getting the job done employees will pick up on that and will respond to their employer in a negative way. But when employers’ show that they truly care about their employee’s well being they will respond in a positive way. It would be in the organizations best interest for employers to take time to get to know their employees.

Employers should empower their staff by allowing them to make important decisions in reference to their day to day duties. This will cause employees to respect their employers which will also lead to trust. When employees trust and respect the organization they will do the best possible work they are capable of doing. This in turn will lead to accountability on the part of the employee (Mussellwhite, 2007). When an employer gains the trust of their staff, they will know how to motivate each individual person for the best outcome of the organization.

Employees understand that no organization is a perfect organization. When employees know and feel important to the organization, respect and trust will deepen. Respect and trust will take an organization to higher creativity and increased efficiency (Forbes. com, 2009). Positive communication is the cornerstone to empowerment and trust within an organization. When employers take the time to consider their staff opinions and feedback on daily operations, this can cause higher productivity and increase efficiently. Employers should share information about the organization with their staff.

This provides for a clear picture of how the organization is progressing or not progressing. This also produces trust among employees because employers trust their staff (Mussellwhite, 2007). Conclusion In conclusion, this paper compared motivation and empowerment, defined the components of empowerment, analyzed the implications of empowerment and delegation in a criminal justice organization and analyzed the role of trust in personnel issues. Motivation and empowerment is about providing production and management guidelines to employees and then allows them to operate in an independent manner.

Empowerment and delegation within the criminal justice system involves sharing power and influence to individuals within the organization, who are otherwise hierarchical unequal. This leadership looks at the broader aspect of giving authority to employees which will allow them to make decisions, solve problems, and be held accountable for their actions. The components of empowerment are about communication, feedback and productivity. Employees should be trained properly so that trust is gained through empowerment.

A motivated and empowered employee will respect and trust the organization which will lead to accountability and responsibility. Leaders can gain great achievement when they effectively motivate and empower their staff into self development of skills and abilities. References Chris Musselwhite, 2007. Inc. Motivation=Empowerment; retrieved on November 22, 2012 from www. inc. com/resources/leadership/articles/20070801 Employees Empowerment: How to Empower employees. Retrieved on November 22, 2012 from www. humanresources. about. com/od/employeeempowerment Empowerment in the Workplace ttp://ezinearticles. com/? Empowerment-in-the-Workplace&id=6541445 Make sure your employees trust you or else. Forbes. com 2009. Retrieved from http://www. forbes. com/2009/03/23/trust-respect-employees-leadership-managing-blanchard. html. National Empowerment Center Article www. power2u. org/articles/empowerment/workingdef. html Susan Heathfield. 2012. What is Empowerment; Retrieved on November 22, 2012 from www. businessdictionary. com/definition/empowerment. html What is Motivation; Retrieved on November 22, 2012 from www. Businessdictionary. com/definition/motivation. html

Another employee of your paper mill, Hotspur, steals a shipment of wood pulp for your company to impress you with initiative to secure new resources for free. Unfortunately, he runs down a pedestrian crossing properly in the crosswalk on his way back to your factory, injuring her. If sues your company can there be a recovery for the injury? Discuss your answer. The employee who stole the shipment will cause the company to be responsible for the recovery for the injury. I believe that this is a case of the doctrine of respondeat superior.

This is Latin for “let the master respond”. The employee is an agent of the company therefore the employer is responsible for their actions. Even though the employer had no idea of knowing what the agent was going to do, the company is still liable for his/her actions. As noted in the text, the following example was given, “If a truck driver, the employee of a delivery firm, negligently runs a red light and injures a pedestrian, the owner of the truck is liable for the injury” (Hallowell & Miller, 2012).

In addition, the employee could be terminated because of his/her actions while being employed as an agent. The employee could be terminated because an injury or possible death occurred that was not what the agent was contracted to do. The employee could also be prosecuted because the wood pulp was stolen. Even though it was an effort to impress the company it is still punishable by law because the goods were stolen, not free.