1. Some management experts have recommended that performance appraisal be abolished. Provide three reasons why performance appraisals should be retained in modern healthcare organizations. Consider an employee who always performs satisfactorily but has little or no opportunity to improve, and can go no higher in the organization and does not aspire to do so. Why is it considered necessary to continue periodically appraising this employee's performance? Why are employee performance appraisals often described as a manager's least favorite responsibility? Why should all appraisal processes avoid addressing personality characteristics of employees? Why is it appropriate to begin addressing an employee's performance with a review and update of the person's job description? Why is it important to ensure that employee appraisals occur when they are scheduled to occur? Managers do not always provide consistent appraisals. How can this problem be addressed? How can past appraisals of performance influence the outcomes of employment-related legal actions