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A former grip on ABC Network’s hit series Grey’s Anatomy filed a lawsuit in Los Angeles Superior Court recently alleging wrongful termination based on gender, and retaliation for his complaints against a former photography director.

If an employee sues your company for sexual harassment, discrimination, wage and hour violations, retaliation or other unfair workplace practices, what should you do?

Maybe you are having a “square peg in a round hole problem.” That is, your team wants you to do work that is a poor fit for your skill set and/or passions. If so, perhaps your job roles could shift to make the work more appealing.

Your current job is challenging. Whether your boss said inappropriate things to you; or whether the job itself just vacuums up a lot of time and energy, you worry about whether your organization is a good fit.

In past several blog posts, we outlined a widely used business problem solving process, known as the “5 Whys,” and examined how this strategy can help HR professionals. Developed by Toyota engineers, 5 Whys been used by businesses around the world to engineer solutions via root cause analysis.

Using the 5 Whys exercise, we diagnosed the core problem facing the company: the founders had never established an animating vision for the direction of the company.

In the Human Resources business, you can draw from a nearly infinite number of strategies to solve personnel problems. If you have been struggling with your hiring, promotion and firing processes, for instance, you can: