1. Discuss whether and in what form each of the following links is present in Omega’s performance management system:
a. Prerequisites → performance planning
b. Performance planning → performance execution
c. Performance execution → performance assessment
d. Performance assessment → performance review
e. Performance review → performance renewal and recontracting
f. Performance renewal and recontracting → prerequisites
2. Please choose one link in the performance management process at Omega that has not been created effectively (there are several; choose only one). What should be done to improve the link that you have chosen?
Omega, Inc. is a small manufacturing company whose sales success or failure rests in the hands of sales representatives employed by franchised dealers operating independently. Omega faces a challenging situation because it does not have control over the people working for the independent dealerships.