Jeanette Landis Case Study Case Studies

In this particular case study there was an employee Jeanette Landis whose supervisor Paul was submitting a termination request to the Human Resource department. His reasoning for submitting the termination request comes from consistently poor job performance on the part of Landis. He communicates that there was numerous attempt made by leadership to help Landis improve the poor performance. However, no attempt at seemed to have a positive impact on her reaching her sales goals. After months of poor job performance Paul finally submits request for termination. Of course the employee was not happy about the termination news. In response to termination paperwork being submitted, Landis has responded by seeking legal action against the organization.

According to Woodruffe (2005), often times employer will fail to realize the effect that training has in helping to improve the work performance of employees (p. 25). If Landis work performance was consistently declining and Paul did nothing to help give resources that would help to improve this poor performance. It could possible show that the organization neglected to properly equip Landis with some of the tools needed for her to perform well on the job. If there was training that was given it would be important to ask for the list of the type of training that Landis participated in. Having this information will help to support that Landis was not only made aware that her job performance was not doing well. It will also show that the organization made continuous attempt to help her improve on her job

If she signed stating that she understood the policies in the handbook, then it would also help to support that she was aware of how the disciplinary policy incorporated by the organization. The employee handbook should contain information on the disciplinary policy of the organization. According to (“Wrongful termination”, 2012), it is in the best interest of the organization to properly communicate the disciplinary actions implemented by the organization in the employee handbook. Having this information ensures that all parties are aware of disciplinary policy of the organization (para. 1). Having this signed document would help to show that Landis was clearly aware of what actions the organization would take in a situation such as