Your organisation has just completed the annual appraisal of employee performance using an absolute standards system.

Your organisation has just completed the annual appraisal of employee performance using an absolute standards system. A number of employees have complained that the system is unfair and that they do not feel that supervisors are applying the standards consistently. Following a meeting with the HR director, you have been asked to summarise what might be going wrong with the current system and to define alternative systems that the organisation would find more effective. What would you include in your response?