Percy Seems to Lack the Basic Skills Necessary to Do

question 9

Multiple Choice

Percy seems to lack the basic skills necessary to do her job. Which of the following is true?

• A) To manage risk, her employer should tell her that her work is substandard, develop a process for improvement and tell her that she will be fired if she is unable to improve.
• B) To increase profitability, she should be fired immediately.
• C) To prove incompetence, her employer need only show that her job could have been done better.
• D) To claim this as the ground for summary dismissal, her employer must demonstrate that she once had the skill.
• E) To increase profitability, she should be moved into an easier job-even if that means promoting her.

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