Question

Catarina, the founder of Platter Place, believes in employee empowerment, so as soon as she began hiring managers, she made subordinate reviews part of her company's performance appraisal system. However, she and her human resource manager have realized that the managers don't always place enough emphasis on efficiency and results, perhaps out of fear that their employees will give them lower ratings. What would be the best way for Platter Place to use subordinate feedback?
A. Use the results of subordinate feedback to identify avenues for employee development.
B. Give the employees greater opportunities to observe the behavior of their manager.
C. Require that the employees giving subordinate feedback identify themselves.
D. Limit the information gathering by subordinates to short periods once a year.
E. Discontinue subordinate feedback, because it has undesirable consequence.

Answer 1

Answer: Option A

Explanation:

As the founder of the Platter place believes in employee empowerment it is important for the founder to identify the reason for less efficiency and results. The best option that the HR manager and she could take are use the feedback given by the subordinates to find ways for employee development.

The identity of the feedback of the manager should not be opened up to the manager as it would create decrease in performance ratings of the subordinates  and also conflicts arise between the employees.