(ii) Evaluate the relative advantages and disadvantages of Chen’s risk management committee beingnon-executive rather than executive in nature. (7 marks)
(ii) Evaluate the relative advantages and disadvantages of Chen’s risk management committee being
non-executive rather than executive in nature. (7 marks)
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2 Chen Products produces four manufactured products: Products 1, 2, 3 and 4. The company’s risk committee recentlymet to discuss how the company might respond to a number of problems that have arisen with Product 2. After anumber of incidents in which Product 2 had failed whilst being used by customers, Chen Products had been presentedwith compensation claims from customers injured and inconvenienced by the product failure. It was decided that therisk committee should meet to discuss the options.When the discussion of Product 2 began, committee chairman Anne Ricardo reminded her colleagues that, apart fromthe compensation claims, Product 2 was a highly profitable product.Chen’s risk management committee comprised four non-executive directors who each had different backgrounds andareas of expertise. None of them had direct experience of Chen’s industry or products. It was noted that it wascommon for them to disagree among themselves as to how risks should be managed and that in some situations,each member proposed a quite different strategy to manage a given risk. This was the case when they discussedwhich risk management strategy to adopt with regard to Product 2.Required:(a) Describe the typical roles of a risk management committee. (6 marks)
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