As a result, they can put both individual executives and the company that hired them at risk.

Thus, the agency will not pursue actions against individual executives on that issue.

The individual executives could have faced a maximum penalty of three years in prison and a $350,000 fine.

From then on all legal powers, etc., were held in the name of the Commission and not by the individual executives.

It helpfully includes a list of individual executives by name.

While the tapes have caught on with individual executives hoping to bridge the cultural and business divide, many corporations are also using them.

The intention was that they would take responsibility for, and bring a new, more customer-focused approach to, individual executive (service delivery) functions within government.

He said he wanted individual executives to exercise more initiative in making decisions.

The two cases have also assumed importance as some of the first criminal actions against individual executives.

Such an approach could be used to bring charges against either individual executives or Enron itself.