In Addition to Improving Performance in an Employee's Present Job

question 2

Multiple Choice

In addition to improving performance in an employee's present job, why are performance appraisal and the resulting records of appraisal are important?

• A) Top management needs documented assurance that department manager's are doing their appraisal as they should.
• B) It might be necessary to prove that employees who are not performing up to standard have been advised of same.
• C) Any given performance appraisal could conceivably figure prominently in wrongful discharge litigation.
• D) They are always used in determining who is laid off in a general reduction in force.

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