Question

You’ve received your raise pool for the year and it’s not as big as you had hoped. You fear that you won’t be able to provide the kind of raises you think most of your employees deserve. The only problem is that the human resources department requires that performance evaluation scores be aligned with raises. Thus, you won’t be able to give your employees high performance scores and low raises, but rather you’ll have to downgrade their performance scores to match their raise amounts. Which of the following actions is most likely to help you promote a greater sense of fairness among your employees?

Select: 1

Tell HR that you won’t participate in performance appraisals this year. Present an accurate performance appraisal and explain why raises are not commensurate with their actual performance. Tell employees the situation and have them each file grievances with the HR department. Find support for giving lower performance evaluations so as to send a consistent message.

Answer 1

The correct answer here is B

"Present an accurate performance appraisal and explain why raises are not commensurate with their actual performance"

The reason this is the correct answer is because that would be most fair to the employees. If you are able to explain them why raises this year would be lower, then they would be able to understand the relation between the performance evaluation score and the raise.

By finding unreasonable support for giving lower performance evaluations just so that you can give inconsistent message, you will lower the confidence of employees in the entire evaluation system.