...BA530 September 14, 2015 Case Study Analysis: Will Your Workers Sue You? State-By-State Risks and Strategic Responses. Facing lawsuits by employees is something that every company has to be cognoscente of. The human resources department needs to stay on top of the newest and latest information such as any changes in the laws and strategies to avoid lawsuits. By following the three metrics outlined in the article; severity, frequency, and range and applying risk management techniques can help to prepare but may never really avoid lawsuits. Some employees are out to make a quick paycheck and will jump at the chance to sue the company for anything they can say was done wrong by the company. Like most HR strategies, there is no one strategy that works for every employer. Factors that have an impact on frequency or number of losses are geography, racial diversity, and economics. Something I found interesting was that a state’s citizens views; either liberal or conservative may have an impact on loss exposure. In the more liberal states more money was awarded to the plaintiffs than in the more conservative states. One of the other items I found interesting but also surprising was how attorneys could “forum shop” and file in a state where the jury might be more sympathetic to the plaintiff 1. I must admit that I don’t have a lot of experience with lawsuits against companies but it seems like most of the lawsuits I have read about have been or can easily be won by the employee....
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...Competing SBU’s Bethella Sam Phillips Grantham University BA530 Competing SBU’s Strategic business units are units made up of one or more products having a similar market base whose manager has total responsibility for integrating all functions into a strategy against an identifiable competitor (Jain & Haley, 2009). They are made up of items that are separate from other products in relation to their price, style, or competition. Founded on April 1, 1967 by Steve Jobs, Steve Wozniak, and Ronald Wayne, Apple is one of the best examples of a strategic business unit. They develop and sell various electronic products and software such as the Mac computers, iPod, iPad, iPad Mini, iTunes, iOS software and the iPhone. Apples’ iPad is one of the most competitive strategic business units of all of Apple’s products. Its compact size is convenient yet full of a vast variety of functions that are the comparable to the MacBook Pro laptop. Apple’s products are some of the worlds most recognized technologically advanced and widely used mobile communicating devices on the market today; we will be comparing the iPad to the Mac Book Pro Plus with retina display, the iPad Mini and the iPhone. With its first release of the iPad in the spring of 2010, there have been several changes to the processor and operating system. An iPad performs similar to a computer by allowing users to browse the Internet, play online games, and check email. It also allows users to...
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