Who Among the Following Has Committed the Tort of Slander

question 42

Multiple Choice

Who among the following has committed the tort of slander?

• A)A manager who searchers an employee's office without consent
• B)A manager who gives false,defamatory information about a former employee through a conference call
• C)A manager who negligently reveals private information about an employee to another employee
• D)A manager who monitors an employee's private email

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Definitions:

Instrumental Aggression

Aggression motivated by achieving a goal, rather than by anger or the desire to dominate.

Freudian Theory

A psychological framework developed by Sigmund Freud that emphasizes unconscious motivations and conflicts as driving human behavior and personality development.

Life-giving Instinct

An innate or natural drive in living beings to reproduce or engage in behaviors that sustain life or promote well-being and survival.

Thanatos

In psychoanalytic theory, it represents the death drive, postulated by Freud as a basic human instinct oriented toward self-destruction and destructiveness.