Performance Appraisal

Abstract

In this competitive era, when success of every organization depends upon the efficiency of its management, it is an important task for the organization to evaluate the efficiency as well as performance of its employees time to time and for this purpose; performance appraisal portrays an important role in every organization. Performance appraisal is the process of measuring quantitatively and qualitatively an employees’ past or present performance against the background of his expected role performance, the background of his work environment, and about his future potential for an organization. There are various methods for this like grading system, straight ranking method and 360 degree feedback etc but these all methods are based on past performance. In this paper discussion is made about Performance appraisal, its issues and some recommendations to improve it and make its implementation easily. 

KEYWORDS:  Performance; Evaluation; Leniency; Review; Appraisal; Feed forward.