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Congratulations. You have just been promoted to a Senior Managerposition in the Finance Department. You now supervise five (5)employees who process payroll for a large successful publishingcompany. You have worked for the company for six (6) years andyou’ve worked alongside the employees you now supervise the entiretime.

You consider these coworkers who are now your subordinates assome of your closest friends. You often socialized after work,attended events together, and truly got along well with everyone –except for Jimmy – who habitually uses profanity, and dressesformally in an informal office environment. His work performance isalso lower than the others, and he often tries to minimize hisperformance issues by using off-color humor. He usually goes alongto all the social events, but you sometimes feel uncomfortablearound him.

You are now required to conduct performance reviews for yourteam, but you have pre-existing negative feelings towards Jimmy,and very positive feelings toward the other coworkers.

Your Assignment:

Given your pre-existing feelings towards Jimmy and your othercoworkers, how will you measure their performance fairly? As youprepare for the performance feedback session with Jimmy, which youwant to be effective to change performance, what steps would youtake to achieve this goal?

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