Finally, Chapter 7. In this chapter we introduced attribution theory and attribution styles as it related to motivating employees. In this case, you are hired into a department and one of your first assignments is to conducted performance reviews. When you review your predecessor’s work –all employees had relatively strong evaluations (so there were no low performers and no superstars). You have decided to allocate the raises equally to among all your employees.
These raises will probably be disappointingly small. You are deciding to break the news to your staff in the least demotivational way possible and you have the following options:
1)Explain to the staff that they deserve larger raises but based on the budget –this was the best you could do
2)Explain to the staff that you could have gotten them larger raises is their performance levels had been higher
3)Explain to the staff that they deserve larger raises but that their previous manager had failed them by rating them all equally.
4)Explain to the staff that these small raises are fair, given the equal performance raises
