The answer is A personification.
I believe the answer is: how well an employee is actually doing
Unlike in education environment, workplaces do not adopt GPA system do measure how well an employee perform, since there are a lot of factors that could determine employees'performance, depending on the position that they're in. Because of this, it is hard to develop a comparison method that could objectively measure employees' worth.
The answer is "party machine".
Political machine, in U.S. legislative issues, a gathering association, headed by a solitary supervisor or little absolutist gathering, that summons enough votes to keep up political and authoritative control of a city, province, or state.
