As part of the evaluation process for functional employees, each project manager submits a written, confidential evaluation report to the employee€™s department manager who, in turn, makes the final judgment. The employee is permitted to see only the evaluation from his department manager. Assume that the average department merit increase is 7 percent, and that the employee could receive the merit increases shown in the following table. How would he respond in eachcase?

Credit or Blame to Project Manager's Merit increase, % Fct. Mgr Evaluation Excellent Excellent Excellent Average Average Average Poor Poor Poor PM. Reason