Faris has just been promoted to be the leader of the programming team of a high-tech company where he has been working for the past 5 years. The company operates in a highly dynamic environment where jobs are not well defined as work is determined through customer-based solutions. The program team has been working together for a few years, and Faris has a good relationship with the team. While Faris is now the leader of the team most of the programmers drive their own jobs so Faris does not have a lot of power to reward or punish his new team. Discuss how organizational and employee performance could mitigate the issues faced by Faris.

Faris has just been promoted to be the leader of the programming team of a high-tech company where he has been working for the past 5 years. The company operates in a highly dynamic environment where jobs are not well defined as work is determined through customer-based solutions. The program team has been working together for a few years, and Faris has a good relationship with the team. While Faris is now the leader of the team most of the programmers drive their own jobs so Faris does not have a lot of power to reward or punish his new team. Discuss how organizational and employee performance could mitigate the issues faced by Faris.

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