Youve received your raise pool for the year and its not as big as you had hoped. You fear that you wont be able to provide the kind of raises you think most of your employees deserve. The only problem is that the human resources department requires that performance evaluation scores be aligned with raises. Thus, you wont be able to give your employees high performance scores and low raises, but rather youll have to downgrade their performance scores to match their raise amounts. Which of the following actions is most likely to help you promote a greater sense of fairness among your employees?

Select: 1

Tell HR that you wont participate in performance appraisals this year.

Tell employees the situation and have them each file grievances with the HR department.

Present an accurate performance appraisal and explain why raises are not commensurate with their actual performance.

Find support for giving lower performance evaluations so as to send a consistent message