MEANING AND DEFINITION OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL
Performance appraisal or Performance evaluation is a method of evaluating the behaviour of employees in a workplace, generally including both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of job performance. The performance here refers accomplishment of the tasks that make up to the degree of measurement in terms of results, thus, up an individual's job. Performance is Performance appraisal is the process of assessing the performance or progress of an employee, job, as well as his or a group of employees on the given potential for future development.
Thus, performance appraisal comprises all formal procedures personality and is used in organisations to evaluate the contributions and potential of individual employees. In other words, performance appraisal includes the comparison holding similar areas of performance scales of different individuals of work responsibilities and relates to the determination of the worth of the rankings for the achievement of organisational objectives.
Performance Appraisal has been defined as follows:
"Performance appraisal is the systematic, periodic and impartial rating of an employee's excellence in matters pertaining to his present job and his potential for a better job.”
Edwin Flippo
“The overall objective of performance appraisal is to improve the efficiency of an enterprise by attempting to mobilise the best possible efforts from individuals employed in it. Such appraisal achieves four objectives including salary reviews, the development and training of individuals, planning, job rotation and assistance promotions.”
Cummings,
“Performance appraisal and review is the formal, systematic assessment of how well employees are performing their jobs in relation to established standards and the communication of that assessment to employees".
Wendell French,
Thus, performance appraisal aims at providing a broader base for decision-making on personnel matters, and focuses on the total performance of the employee on his work and at the workplace, In essence, performance appraisal means any process or procedure that involves:
(a) setting work goals or standards,
(b) assessing the employee's actual performance or results related to these standards,
(c) providing feedback to the employee with the aim of motivating that person to eliminate his performance deficiencies or to continue to perform the above parts.
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