Performance Appraisal

Workplaces ethics and behavior are important aspects of employment. Both of them if implemented properly can enable the organization to be productive. Actually, ethics and behavior are as crucial to corporations as performance since they boost the morale of workers in order to achieve success. Every Manager has the responsibility to ensure that employees must strictly adhere to the certain company guidelines that drives the appropriate work place ethics. These workplace ethics includes character such as high integrity, behavior and teamwork. With the following in mind and as a supervisor for the sixty-four-year-old woman, I would ensure that these rules and regulations are followed. Thus, I wouldn’t rate this woman as satisfactory as my predecessor did for the past three years. Why would I make that move yet it would raise questions about the effectiveness of the supervisor as well as the performance of the woman? The objective of this paper is to identify and evaluate some of the ethical components that I would consider while arriving at this decision. 

This decision would be prompted by the urge to ensure the integrity, being honest and doing the right thing at all times, at work place. If integrity is maintained despite the challenges faced, it has the impact of improving the morale of the workers as well as their performance (Clark and Lattal, 1993). In this case, it would be unethical and wrong to lie about the performance of the woman. Also, the decision to tell the truth would have embarrassing effects on the woman as well as the predecessor supervisor. The impact of lying for three years, by the previous supervisor, would raise an alarm about his accountability. As the manager, my responsibility would be to ensure integrity at workplace. The decision to give wrong information would damage the culture of doing the right thing at work place. It would be impossible to force workers to hold integrity while the manager is doing the opposite.

Lying is an unethical behavior that has the impact of destroying trust among the workers (Malin, 2000). As the manager, it would be detrimental to the company being on the forefront to committing such an unethical behavior. The act would definitely influence the subordinate employees. It is observable to everyone that performance of the old woman is unsatisfactory. For instance, she doesn’t embrace criticism well. Avoiding mentioning this attribute would encourage other workers to adopt the same attitude. Lying has an impact of creating a bad culture in the workplace as the influence would integrate into a behavior that would be hard to control. The behavior would result to reduced performance of the workers as well as affecting the final results of the company. My responsibility as the manager would be to tell the truth about the woman’s performance as well as ensure the same is done by the subordinate workers.

Teamwork is another aspect of ethical component that I would consider to arrive at the decision. While some employees get involved in activities that favor their fellow workmates, there is a dire need to set aside personal issues or work-related differences to attain a larger goal (Larmer, 2002). It would not be right in this case to rate the woman as satisfactory since the act would be involving personal considerations rather than the set guidelines and regulations. Teamwork, at workplace, is a dynamic process and involves workers, supervisors and managers. Supervisors and managers have higher responsibility of building teamwork.  As the supervisor, it would be inappropriate to give the wrong information. This act would create a negative impact among the workers such as involving personal issues while executing their tasks.  The woman has a problem of accepting criticism and as a manager I would not report the problem, it would extend across to all the workers. The culture would have the effect of destroying the teamwork in the company.

In conclusion, workers and supervisors usually don’t tell the truth about their workmates in order to avoid embarrassing them. This is a major challenge of executing proper ethical components such as integrity, behavior and teamwork. Lying is unethical and has an impact of destroying all the ethical components. Managers bear the most important responsibility of ensuring that workers adhere to rules and regulations. Hence, they should be on the forefront to avoid lying.


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