Workplace Employment Decisions

Memorandum

Re: Workplace Employment Decisions

Current Issues at Bluefield

Currently, our sports manufacturing plant in Bluefield, West Virginia is going downhill and is almost obsolete. The problem is that our workforce is not well skilled and as a result we may need to reduce the workforce or even shut down if we do not fix the problem. Our main goal is to keep our manufacturing plant in business to reduce the risk of having our employees transferred to a new plant in California or worse case a majority of our employees losing their jobs. Our focus is on improving our better subordinates, which consist of seven supervisors to increase productivity and performance at our plant.

Criteria

To prepare for conducting an annual performance appraisal, I reviewed my notes on each supervisor’s performance during the previous year. Based on my notes, I included a spreadsheet along with my recommendations for each supervisor in terms of a workplace employment decision that I feel is best for each supervisor, as well as our company. I based the criteria on the performance measure (PM) scores and compared it to the overall evaluations from peers and Bob. These two criteria’s are the two most important ones to deal with when doing performance appraisals, because the PM score is very accurate and evaluations take everyone’s opinions into consideration. To create values for the evaluations, I made an evaluation rating scale from zero to five to give weights for each supervisor based on their evaluations. Next I multiplied each supervisors PM score times their evaluation scale rate. Lastly, I created a workplace employment decisions scale with six levels of actions to help rank the previous results to determine what action to take with each supervisor.

Results & Recommendations

1. John Miller has the most seniority, which is the reason why he has the highest paid salary. His education level is the lowest, and his performance measure has been declining. I would...