Performance

Appraisal
Meaning

“performance appraisal focuses on judging the

performance and future potential of the
employee”
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Definition
Dale S. Beach

“Performance appraisal is the systemetic

evaluation of the individual with respect to
his or her performance on the job and his or
her potential for development”
Features
 Systemetic approach
 Analyse strenghts and weaknesses
 Ongoing and continuous process
 Information
 Formal or informal
Objectives
a) Work related
 To assess the work in relation to job requirement
 To improve efficiency
 To assist management
 To carry out job evaluation

b) Career development
 To assess strong and weak points
 To find remedies
 To determine career potential
 To plan promotion,transfer ,lay off etc.
c) Communication
 To provide feedback

 To clearly establish goals

 To provide coaching,counselling,career planning

and motivation to employees

 To develop positive superior –subordinate relations

and reduce grievances

d) Organisational
 serve the basis for promotion/demotion,wage and

salary administration,training and

development,transfer and termination
Benefits
 To evaluate the performance
 Guidance to employees to improve their performance
 Basis for salary increase/increment
 Transfer and promotion
 Training and development
 Facilitates HR planning ,career planning and

succession
 Improvemint in work environment
 Develop confidence among employees
Performance appraisal process
Performace appraisal process
 Establishing standards
 Communicating standards to employees
 Measuring actual performance
 Comparing actual with standards
 Discussing reports with employees
 Taking corrective action
Methods
1. Traditional methods
2. Modern methods
Traditional methods
 Confidential reports
 Graphics scales
 Straight ranking
 Grading system
 Forced distribution method
 Check list method
 Critical incident method
 Free essay method
 Group appraisal
 Field review
 Nominations
 Work sample tests
Confidential reports

“the confidential report relates to the performance

,ability and character of the employee during a
year”
Graphic scales method
A rating scale lists traits
and a range of perfor
Mance values for each
trait
Straight ranking method

“in straight ranking method every employee is

judged as a whole without distinguishing the
rates from his performance”
Paired comparison method
“in paired comparison method every person is
compared traitwise with other persons/one at
a time”
Grading system

“in this method employees are given grades

according to the judgement of the rater”
Forced distribution method
Check list method

“check list is a list of statements that describes

the characteristics and performance of
employees on job”
Critical incident method

“it attempts to measure workers performance

in terms of certain events or incidents that
occur in the course of work”
Free essay method

“the supervisor continuously watches the

subordinates and writes his assessment in
the report”
Group appraisal

“under group appraisal method employees

are rated by an appraisal group rather than
by an individual”
Field review method

“an expert from the personnel department

interviews line supervisors to evaluate their
respective subordinates”
Others…..

 Nominations
 Work sample test
Modern methods
 Assessment centre
 Human resource accounting
 Behaviourally anchored rating scales
 Management by objectives
 360 degree performance appraisal
Assessment centre
Human resource accounting
Management by objectives(MBO)
360 degree performance appraisal
Limitations
 Hallo error
 Central tendency
 Leniency or strictness
 Similarity error
 Miscellaneous biases
 Faculty assumptions
 Psychological blocks
Thank you very
much
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