ORGANIZATIONAL BEHAVIOR AND LEADERSHIP

Organizational Behavior and Leadership

Organizational Behavior and Leadership

The Case

In this case a mid-size manufacturing plant hired an engineer, which the company itself describes as intelligent and bright. The engineer is not only completing every task assigned to him on time, but has also made several changes in the plant which increased the efficiency of the plant. However, his attitude is not matching with his work. He has been proven very bad team player, as he does not treat co-workers respectfully. Even, the managers feel his attitude resent, because he claim that he is the only trained engineer in the company and no one is qualified to evaluate his performance in the company. The manager this time has opted for 360 degree performance evaluation system, and so far has evaluated his attitude with co-workers, his attitude to managers when they communicate, friendliness and neatness of workplace. Despite his extraordinary performance he has received very poor remarks in every field. This paper in this connection, will recommend three main concerns that manager should consider while evaluating the performance of engineer.

Task A) Three Point of Concern in Current Evaluation Form

The point of concern in the current evaluation form of this company includes:

Friendliness: A performance evaluation form should consider factor like how a person perform in team rather than his friendliness, because nature of different individual varies, and it is a fact that there are people in the world who do not prefer to be social at their workplace, and a probability is there that the engineer falls in this type of people.

Neatness: As the case clearly depicts that the engineer is performing extraordinarily on every task, which means that he is workaholic and keep all his focus and energy on his task instead of taking care about the neatness. Secondly, it is the responsibility of the organization to keep the environment clean and a person should be responsible for that. Another factor why neatness is the point of concern in evaluation form is that neatness is not in the job role of the engineer, so he should not be judge on that factor.

Attitude Judgment: This is a point of concern, because judging the attitude of a person is directly related to the personal liking or disliking, which increase the element of biasness.

Task B) Compare the Relative Value of Common Sets of Evaluation Criteria

The common sets of evaluation criteria are important factors which stresses on evaluating the performance of an employee on quantifiable bases, like individual contribution, skill set, work ethic and professional development (Grote, 2002). All these factors must be counted by the manger/supervisor in this case to properly evaluate the performance of engineer. Counting these factors will actually help management of the company to justify the performance evaluation of the engineer.

Task C) Advantages of including supervisors, peers, and subordinates

By Edward Prewitt one can describe the following success factors for the implementation of including supervisors, peers, and subordinates in summary form (Lansbury, 2001; Cattozzo, Albeni, Calonaci & De Luca, ...