Payton Was Recently Dismissed from Her Job in a Hardware

question 34

Multiple Choice

Payton was recently dismissed from her job in a hardware store. She had often been late for work, and she was so unresponsive to customers' needs that the store had received several complaints about her. Furthermore, she frequently complained about policies and procedures. A week after Payton's dismissal, the store's manager learned that Payton intended to sue the company for wrongful dismissal. She was saying she had complained of management's misdeeds, so the company retaliated. How should the human resource department have prepared the company for this situation?

• A) by using a single well-trained rater to evaluate each employee and by having upper-level managers review those evaluations
• B) by dismissing poor performers quickly, rather than raising false hopes with coaching and training programs
• C) by basing the performance management system on measurement of employee traits, not behaviors
• D) by setting up a performance management system that documents employee performance problems
• E) by setting up a performance management system that provides evidence of management's misdeeds

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Definitions:

Ledger

A comprehensive collection of a company's financial accounts, used for recording all financial transactions.

Debits

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Chart of Accounts

An organized list of all accounts in a business entity's financial records, each with a unique identifier.