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Both articles offer helpful advice on how to handle a performance review. The article written by Ruth Mayhew highlights the need to be calm, seek clarity, and assemble important data to get ready for an appeal. The essay offers practical strategies and advocates a productive way to deal with performance issues (Mayhew, 2017).

The second article, "Responding to a Disappointing Performance Review," goes into more detail and offers guidance on how to handle a difficult conversation professionally, how to use the feedback to set new goals, and how to do all of that without losing controla sign of emotional intelligence (Bakken, 2010).

I would lean more toward the article "Responding to a disappointing Performance Review" since it has thorough steps in which an employee can respond to the performance review. It provides a response guide to assist in how to respond to management. This allows employees to think before acting when receiving their performance reviews. The extent to which employees believe they are treated fairly and given due process determines how they feel toward their jobs, influencing how motivated they are to work and how they behave in the workplace. Professional input from the employer and a professional response to that feedback from the employee will result in a healthy relationship (Katz, et al, 2017).