Activity 3.1: Contract Principles
For the first paragraph, describe the fundamental aspects of a legally binding contract.
Under what circumstances should the law enforce a promise that the promisor does not wish to keep?
Under what circumstances should promisors be excused?
Give an example from your personal experience of an oppressive, one-sided contract, to which you or someone you knew, was bound. What happened?
For the second paragraph discuss:
Should the law be changed to hold sellers legally accountable for the often exaggerated opinions and promises that they make to customers?
Why/not?
Would such a change in the law create even greater problems?
If so, what?
Defend your answer using concepts from the reading.
For the third paragraph, select and discuss Case Analysis 12.2 pg. 245 or 12.3. pg. 253
Describe the situation; articulating the facts.
What are the main legal issues the court dealt with?
What contract principals won out and why?
Activity 3.2: Technology Issues and Cybercrime
For the first paragraph:
Describe two aspects of how the legal environment is becoming more complex for leaders and managers as both the Internet and other globalization trends permeate organizational cultures.
What key things should a leader and manager remember in order to stay on top of this changing milieu?
For the second paragraph:
Describe the steps the administrator of an information technology system or computer network in a business environment might take to protect against the crimes discussed in Chapter Ten?
How do those become more complex in the context of jurisdiction discussed earlier?
Who has jurisdiction in what situations?