Reference no: EM131640160

Assignment

1. Who should be responsible for taking action when a board member engages in problematic behavior? If the chairperson is responsible, when should he or she involve the whole board? What are the costs of early full board involvement? What are the costs of late full board involvement?

2. One complaint lodged was that HP provided board members' home phone numbers to investigators. Was this out of line? Do board members have a responsibility to provide certain basic information, or was their privacy breached when their home phone numbers were given? A board member whose phone records proved he was not involved in any leaks still resigned the board in protest that his pri-vacy was invaded by the pretexting. Was he right?

3. The law regarding pretexting is unclear. While it is illegal when used to obtain financial records, the use of pretexting in other situations- such as the phone records in this example- was not necessar-ily against the law. Should it be?

4. How might things have evolved differently if the ethicality rather than the legality of the practice had been the issue? Are the two synonymous or is there a difference?

Attachment:- News-Leaks-Seemed-to-Plague.rar