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The document summarizes a case study about workplace violence committed by Jason Rodriguez at his former employer, an engineering firm. It examines the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to the case. The strengths include evidence that supports links between economic stress and violence, and the suspect's statements implying the employer obstructed his unemployment benefits. The weaknesses are a lack of hard data and only the suspect's claims without the employer's perspective. Opportunities include further research and monitoring employees for signs of instability. Threats involve financial problems now being the primary employee concern and contributing to increased stress and insecurity during economic downturns.

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Bilgera SWOT

The document summarizes a case study about workplace violence committed by Jason Rodriguez at his former employer, an engineering firm. It examines the strengths, weaknesses, opportunities, and threats related to the case. The strengths include evidence that supports links between economic stress and violence, and the suspect's statements implying the employer obstructed his unemployment benefits. The weaknesses are a lack of hard data and only the suspect's claims without the employer's perspective. Opportunities include further research and monitoring employees for signs of instability. Threats involve financial problems now being the primary employee concern and contributing to increased stress and insecurity during economic downturns.

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Bilgera, Trisha Aimeelyn C.

(YORGBEV A-131 Case Study)

SWOT/Areas of Consideration

Strengths

 Despite the said non-existence of data to link workplace violence with economic downturns, the
professionals, and experts on the field themselves are convinced of the authenticity of the link
between the two.

 The suspect, Jason Rodriguez, implies in his statement regarding his motive for committing the
crime; that he thought his former workplace had played a role in obstructing him from a
successful process of collecting of unemployment benefits.

 Partly, according to the U.S Labor department, the trend of workplace violence incidences has
simmered down due to employers’ efforts to pay attention to the problems and implement
preventive measures successfully. For example, more companies have decided to setup
Employee Assistance Programs to help employees deal with various sources of stress.

 Laurence Miller, a forensic psychologist, and author of a book titled “From Difficult to Disturbed:
Understanding and Managing Dysfunctional Employees” had stated that “it’s usually somebody
that had a long steak of problems,” and that the economic stress alone won’t cause someone to
become a killer as well as for an average co-worker to turn violent without warning.”

 The mother-in-law’s statements regarding the suspect is in line with Laurence Miller’s. Denoting
that Jason Rodriguez has a long streak of problems for years already which fits the psychologist’s
outlined profile of the most likely people to “suddenly snap and go ballistic” in her statement.
Jason is described by his mother-in-law to be suffering from a set of problems: marital problems,
mental health problems, smoldering anger, unemployment, and debts. Two problems of which
his hindered collection of unemployment benefits correlate with. In addition, in line with his
smoldering anger problem, his mother-in-law also described him as a “very, very angry man” on
top of the marital and mental health problems. The issue with the hindrance in collecting
unemployment benefits have the high possibility of being “the straw that broke the camel’s
back,” after struggling for so many years. Thus, causing him to commit extreme acts of
workplace violence.

Weaknesses

 No hard data existing is said to be able to connect workplace violence with economic
downturns.
 There is no mention of any evidence in the article. Only his claim and implicating statement
about his former workplace, an engineering firm named Reynolds, Smith & Hills which he
suspected to have played a role in hindering him in collecting his unemployment benefits.
 Nothing in the article is stated on the side of story of engineering firm of Reynolds, Smith & Hills;
which was Jason’s former workplace of less than two years ago.
 However, the employee assistance programs providers have reported that they have had
difficulty dealing with the problems in the current climate of economic uncertainty; because the
set of problems they now must deal with are atypical from what they’ve handled in the past.

Opportunities

 To pursue generating data regarding the link between workplace violence and economic
downturns to better create preventive measures and mitigating strategies for creating and
maintaining a more regulated environment of stress for the employees.
 To study and integrate monitoring of the signs alongside preventive measures that somebody is
close to “snapping” because according to Tim Horner, “There are signs out there that something
that’s going on. It’s not unusual that somebody snaps,” a managing director at a security
consulting firm, Kroll Inc. Because according to Laurence Miller, people should not be wondering
if a regular colleague with no real problems whom they have been with for so many years would
“suddenly snap and go ballistic.”

Threats

 Financial problems have replaced emotional problems as employees’ primary area of concern,
which in Maslow’s Hierarchy of Needs is vital as finances support a person’s way of living,
physical sustenance, and state of mind to be a functional member of society. An EAP provider,
Rick Kronberg of Perspectives Ltd. that is based in Chicago, stated that “with the layoffs and
general financial picture, we’re getting a lot of reaction…(from) people with a high degree of
stress.”

 According to Sandra Naiman, a career coach based in Denver, the stressors from both personal
and career areas accumulate; causing the employees to be more affected and that is reflected
during the current recession. With how they are more worried for the future rather than the
present, which implies the employees’ feelings of insecurity.

 Kenneth Springer, a security specialist remarked that “Tough times will cause people to do crazy
things” now that his job includes keeping an eye on potentially dangerous ex-employees for
their former employer’s safety.

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