Supervisors in a large resort are required to complete performance appraisals annually on their direct reports. Supervisors complain about the time-consuming nature of the task. Turnover in many of these positions is high due to transfers and the seasonal and part-time nature of the work. While investigating an employee complaint against an allegedly unfair supervisor, you discover many appraisals are unsigned by the employees of the supervisor. Further investigation reveals that several other supervisors also have filed appraisals without employee signatures. As you casually ask employees how things are going and if they look forward to their next appraisal, many ask “what appraisal”? When you explain the situation to the head of HR, she rolls her eyes and says “What’s done is done.

Leave well enough alone and work out a solution going forward.” Explain several possible causes of the issue.

What ethical issues are present? What responsibility, if any does the HR department hold for the problem?

How should it be addressed? (LO 6, 7)