ABSTRACT
Introduction Th e phone rings, it is a call from the Director of Human Resources for ABC Incorporated. Someone, she believes it to be Employee “A,” has been involved in selling company trade secrets. Th e Director informs you that she has received a phone call from her counterpart at the XYZ Corporation, whose manager of institutional research had been contacted by e-mail, by Employee A, asking if he would be interested in purchasing new development product schematics of ABC’s innovative axle assembly. A small portion of the schematic had been attached to the e-mail sent by Employee A to substantiate his claim of having access to the actual product schematics.
