Business Partner Case Studies Samples For Students

Introduction

The Ulrich's three-legged stool model is a model that was created about ten years ago by Dave Ulrich to assist in the reconstruction of Human Resource (HR) function into a “three-legged stool”. This model has three primary constituent elements which include the business partners, shared services, and centres of excellence. The ideas contained in the Ulrich model came at a time when the HR was overwhelmed to define roles for itself, and it is for this reason that its thinking escalated to higher levels (Heneman and Milanowski, 2011). In practice, there is always an overlap that may exist across ...

Knarles and Barkley Case Study

Liabilities under Contract Law
Chetum vs Knarles & Barkley
Fact: Knarles wants to repudiate a contract between Chetum and Barkley.

Issue: Breach of contract. Chetum entered into a contract with Barkley that Knarles, Barkley’s father and business partner, refuses to accept. Does Knarles repudiation of the contract constitute a breach of contract?

Rule of Law: A contract must have the following elements in order to be enforceable: (1) mutual consent, manifested by offer and acceptance, (2) consideration, (3) legality of object, and (4) capable parties (Calamari and Perillo, 1998).
Application: Barkley sent a contract (offer), which Chetum signed (acceptance), ...

Illegal copying of CDs is against the law and retardedchicken would have some reasons to fill out an ethical argument against CD piracy. However, the case is not clear because Overstand has not specified whether the CDs being copied are copyright protected or not. Retardedchicken could argue that it was Overstand’s perennial duties to know that unlawful copying of CDs amounts to piracy. A libertarian argument will argue that rules of copyrighting are unjustified because manufacturers of such CDs could have used copy protection software or other means to prevent people from copying them. Since, the Overstand’s ...