a This is our final week looking at how to determine Compensation Values before moving onto Designing Performance Pay & Indirect Pay Plans starting next week! This week, we will look at Evaluating Individuals, with a focus on performance appraisals and merit pay. For this week's discussion forum, we are drawing our inspiration from Discussion Question #2 on page 365 of your textbook. One of the biggest potential challenges with performance appraisal is that most employees seem to think they are above average (and do not like to be told otherwise!) This can make it challenging to provide meaningful feedback to employees. Check out Compensation Today 10.3 for some more background on this potential issue. Do you think it is true that most employees think they are above average when it comes to performance? What has your own experience been with performance appraisals in the workplace? How could you design an appraisal system that might avoid this particular problem? Share your thoughts and opinions with your classmates! a Please also remember that this is a class discussion forum and so is open to all MGMT 259 students, and that your discussion forum contributions contribute to your professionalism grade. Please refer to the MGMT 259 Syllabus for the details on how professionalism will be assessed this semester