CEO's Private Investigation Key Issues in the Essay

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CEO's Private Investigation

Key issues in the case

This case is about a new CEO known as Cheryl Tobin who contemplates launching an inquiry in a fraud case that might have taken place at the firm. The CEO as a new employee has assumed a legendary position at the company. The position had previously been held by the deceased James Rawlings who was the reckoning force behind the tremendous innovative achievements and success of the company and acquiring new business opportunities, which enabled them to be ahead of other players in the industry. In fact, the deceased CEO met his death while still negotiating for a business deal after succumbing to aneurysm (Finder, Brandon, Kubasik, Comey, Klein & Teuber, 2007).

Before talking over the CEO position by Cheryl, she was an employee of the Boeing Company heading the company's largest units. Their main rivals included Hammond holdings and she was among the active participants in a couple of things at the former company. While working for Boeing, Cheryl acquired information through rumors that the exemplary performance of Hammond and its ability to obtain more business opportunities, was because the then CEO, Rawlings applied illegal rewards. According to Cheryl, this strategy of applying rewards in a liberal manner was meant to coax new business negotiations to favor his company (Queen, 2011).

These were just rumors because she has no evidence. However, Cheryl is concerned that the rumors are likely to be key indicators to the reality that the former CEO had been conducting fishy deals for the company under the full glare of the entire company. She becomes curious: this leads her to have the desire to pursue whether she can substantiate the rumors. First, she starts to interrogate her personal secretary, Terrell. Terrell was a long serving the personal assistant of the former CEO for a period of eighteen years. Therefore, she could provide relevant information that could either kill or fuel Cheryl's suspicion (Finder, Brandon, Kubasik, Comey, Klein & Teuber, 2007).

Although Terrell is trying to keep it a secret, she is engaging in risky behaviors because the information can be leaked out to media houses.

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When people learn about how this company has been operating under such corruption, the business stands no chance because it will lose the public goodwill. Besides, Cheryl is seen as a shrewd boss because her efforts are attempts to paint a bad picture on the former CEO: she cannot fit into the big shoes left for her (Eugene, 2009).

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Finder, Brandon, Kubasik, Comey, Klein and Teuber, (2007) have actively involved in the business of investigating for some time and have a wide range of cases. In their literature, they claim that when a CEO seeking to have a company investigated for possible corruption scandals contacted them, they had to ask him to provide some data from the firm. Evidently, this is an enormous challenge because throughout the CEO did not want her identity to be revealed the investigations. Nevertheless, Finder, Brandon, Kubasik, Comey, Klein & Teuber, (2007) established that the CEO is likely to at a better position because she is just newly employed by the firm. This does not have any chances of raising a single eyebrow when she requests for audit reports and related documents. Many people have the feeling that because she is a new CEO, then she is only interested because she wants to familiarize herself with company documents and records. This is likely to save her many costs such as time, which she would have spent collecting the necessary information (Eugene, 2009).

She saved a lot of time, which would have been wasted on stalled processes when she was called to retrieve the data in the course of the investigations. Cheryl would be freed from trouble because collecting relevant figures and information will be helpful in identifying the absence or presence of any chances of loopholes. This may imply that the new acquired CEO will not proceed with the investigations if it proves to lead to the open end and not….....

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