This document discusses a model for employee assessment and decision making that considers both trust and performance. It explains that most companies evaluate employees regularly, often annually, based on these two key parameters. The model helps determine the proper balance of trust and performance when assessing employees. Trust is equally important as performance because breaches of trust can lead to major organizational failures. The document advises gauging an employee's past record with the company to evaluate their trustworthiness based on any previous breaches of trust, regardless of size. It presents a grid to show the four combinations of high/low trust and performance, noting that high performance and high trust is ideal for hiring, while low performance and low trust means to not hire.