How do you 'grey rock' or deal with passive aggressive work employee?

[Noangelbuthavingfun]

Recently prompted from a team to be the manager of a team of 6. I've only been with the company for 5 months at the time. The rest of team for 3 years plus. All of team fine and no issues except one... male, younger than me with a stinking attitude.
Never responds to requests for info, turns 121s into his agenda questioning me on my vision for team (shared many times) and generally refusing extra work or assignments . Suck up to old boss (female same as me).
Noted down lots of examples and suddenly dawned on me he is passive aggressive and trying to undermine me ! I'm not taking it any more ... how would you deal with it ? What should I not do ?
Current plan is to discuss our ways of working and my observations with examples as facts - explain why its not acceptable and state expectations for the year and what I expect to change . I will also inform HR.
He is a bit silly as I am doing his appraisal soon but he feels well connected in business and so I think he doesn't care if he pisses me off.
Any advice of tips? I am not afraid of confrontation and feel I have given him plenty of opportunities to get on board. Recent example is "I don't think we need a weekly 121 it's way too frequent "!
Let me hear you !

Promoted... not prompted!

Make sure you have full notes from all meetings, plus copies of exactly what you have emailed to him
Make sure he is fully aware of exactly what his role entails
Involve HR from an early stage and make sure everything, but everything is documented.

You have my sympathy.

Stick to the process for managing him. He sounds like he's not doing this and maybe a little like you're getting waylaid by his attitude. If he digresses, just cut him down with "well this is really to discuss/look at a/b/c" etc. Deal with him the same as you would others on your team: he doesn't have special status. So if there's a deadline he meets it, if there's work allocated he does it. If not, discuss with him is there a training issue, does he require extra support etc. Document all conversations and relevant dates for work due etc. If it becomes apparent he's not meeting expectations, refer to your own manager.

God... I might actually have to put him on A performance plan ... ugh.
I think you are right he sees an opportunity to undermine and feels he is getting away with it so keeps doing it. So much extra and unnecessary work now to document everything but you are right.... arghhhh!!!

Hopefully not! If he's been there a while he can obviously do the work. You just need to make sure that he does.

It's really hard but honestly cut all the extraneous crap out of your dealings with him that he's trying to load in there. Is he doing what he should? Yes/No--> proceed as appropriate.

OK... I have lack of visibility to what he does and feels I don't need to see it or ask for it as its micro managing him- I should just trust him. I haven't seen what I need to in order to do it. OK... that's the plan starting tomorrow!! Wish me luck.
Why do perfectly capable people resort to this crap ?

How is he managing to turn 1-2-1s around? 'We're here to discuss x, y, z, so back to x '.

Horrible people to deal with at work . I can’t give any advice but would give empathy here

Thanks all... so I started to have the chat and then he deflected saying he's looking for another job (same company different department) so won't be here much longer .. I was bloody overjoyed ! I've not really handled it have I? Hope it's not another tactic...
But I've said until such time I need full visibility especially if he is to hand over soon....