The Case Study of the Transferred Employee

CASE STUDY 1

Read the Case Study of the Transferred Employee below and answer the questions that follow in two to three (2 – 3) pages.

The Case Study of the Transferred Employee

You are an administrator of a department in a health organization that has recently been reorganized. Personnel from other units have been permanently transferred into your department so that your department can take on additional tasks in support of the mission of the health organization. After two months have passed, one of your new employees comes to you asking for you to complete his annual job performance appraisal. You are surprised because all the annual performance appraisals were supposed to be completed by the supervisors of the losing departments before they were transferred into your department. Because you do not feel you know the new employee well enough to do an annual performance appraisal, you call the former supervisor and ask that she complete the performance evaluation herself on the employee. The losing supervisor refuses and says that it is now your problem. The losing supervisor further states that no one from Human Resources told her that she was supposed to do a performance appraisal on the employee before the employee left her division. The losing supervisor also confides in you that writing a performance appraisal 90 days after it is due will trigger a “Red Flag” with Human Resources that may reflect negatively on the losing supervisor’s management and supervisory effectiveness of her department.

Frustrated with the situation, you approach your supervisor and ask for his guidance. He suggests that you change the date on the employee’s internal transfer documents making the employee appear like he arrived in your department yesterday. Your supervisor also said he would talk to the other department leader and make sure she did an evaluation for 12 months on the employee and not just for 9 months. It was also suggested that you could …