Discussion: Agency relationships

Discussion: Agency relationships

Business Tort and Criminal Liability Presentation:Why do businesses enter into agency relationships and hire independent contractors instead of employees. Is it simply cost? Is it a question of liability, or is it a combination of the two? As you approach this week’s assignment, consider these questions and think about how they impact risk and what factors in that business create the most risk for the employees and executives. Is it always the same?

Assignment Steps

Resources: Legal Environment of Business: Online Commerce, Business Ethics, and Global Issues: Ch. 5, Ch. 6 and Ch. 7

Create a 10- to 12-slide Microsoft® PowerPoint® presentation, including detailed speaker notes (speaker notes not required for introduction, conclusion, and reference slides). The speaker notes for each slide should serve as the text for your presentation.

Address the following:

Learning Team Requirements:

Differentiate between the following Agency types: Express, Implied, Apparent and Ratification.

Discuss what classifies a worker as an independent contractor.

Collaborate and discuss at least 2 business torts and 2 criminal activities that businesses deal with.

Defend the collective finding of the Learning Team and its conclusions.

Cite a minimum of five scholarly references. One scholarly reference must be from the University Library and one must be the textbook.

Format your paper consistent with APA guidelines.

Click the Assignment Files tab to submit your assignment.

Submit one Learning Team Log to the Assignment tab.
Each team member must submit their individual portion of the paper, identified as such, to the Assignment tab.

The text book is: Cheeseman, H. (2016). Legal Environment of Business; Online Commerce, Business Ethics, and Global Issues (8th ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Pearson.

You must proofread your paper. But do not strictly rely on your computer’s spell-checker and grammar-checker; failure to do so indicates a lack of effort on your part and you can expect your grade to suffer accordingly. Papers with numerous misspelled words and grammatical mistakes will be penalized. Read over your paper – in silence and then aloud – before handing it in and make corrections as necessary. Often it is advantageous to have a friend proofread your paper for obvious errors. Handwritten corrections are preferable to uncorrected mistakes.

Use a standard 10 to 12 point (10 to 12 characters per inch) typeface. Smaller or compressed type and papers with small margins or single-spacing are hard to read. It is better to let your essay run over the recommended number of pages than to try to compress it into fewer pages.

Likewise, large type, large margins, large indentations, triple-spacing, increased leading (space between lines), increased kerning (space between letters), and any other such attempts at “padding” to increase the length of a paper are unacceptable, wasteful of trees, and will not fool your professor.

The paper must be neatly formatted, double-spaced with a one-inch margin on the top, bottom, and sides of each page. When submitting hard copy, be sure to use white paper and print out using dark ink. If it is hard to read your essay, it will also be hard to follow your argument.