Thirty-two days after Andrew’s PIP began, you meet with Nadine. She reports that Andrew’s quality is about the same as before and his quantity of analytical reports has gone up slightly. She met with him initially to put him on the PIP and then just met with him a second time 3 days ago. Nadine wants to fire Andrew. What is your counsel to Nadine?

Nadine, the director of marketing, is having a serious performance problem with a key marketing analyst, Andrew. Andrew has been with the firm for three years and is a 41-year-old minority. Andrew’s initial 6-month review was satisfactory. After that, the appraisals have continued to be satisfactory, but marginally so. You talked the director of marketing out of firing Andrew for employment at will and got her to agree to put Andrew on a performance improvement plan (PIP). You convinced her that for the PIP to work, she’d need to make expectations for work quantity and quality clear to... Show more

Nadine, the director of marketing, is having a serious performance problem with a key marketing analyst, Andrew. Andrew has been with the firm for three years and is a 41-year-old minority. Andrew’s initial 6-month review was satisfactory. After that, the appraisals have continued to be satisfactory, but marginally so.

You talked the director of marketing out of firing Andrew for employment at will and got her to agree to put Andrew on a performance improvement plan (PIP). You convinced her that for the PIP to work, she’d need to make expectations for work quantity and quality clear to Andrew and to meet with him weekly to provide regular feedback.
 

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