Charlene Fisher is employed as a market analyst at Top Cat Apparel Company, on a contract that will be renewed yearly, based on her performance. After three years with the company, her contract is not renewed, based on a poor forecasting decision. Charlene decided to appeal this decision and this case details the outcome of the appeal, while asking readers to evaluate the response of the organization and how the situation could have been handled differently.
Originally Published in: Lussier, R. N., & Hendon, J. R. (2012). Just One Little Slip. In Human resource management: Functions, applications, skill development (pp. 363-364). Los Angeles: SAGE Publications, Inc. ISBN: 9781412992428.