Effectiveness of Performance Appraisals

Paper Summary:

This paper is a research project which used a review of literature and previously completed research projects to evaluate if the achievement of organizational goals and objectives can be measured in part by effective performance appraisals. The paper reports that all of the studies confirm that effective and proper performance appraisals do result in better job performance, measuring performance effectively and enhancing care for work ethic. The author believes that an individual performance evaluation plan increases the employee's specific understanding of his jobs and the specific tasks that make up those jobs.

Table of Contents
Introduction
Statement of Problem
Hypothesis
Research Questions
Assumptions
Literature Review
Causes of Performance Appraisal
Steps Leading to Performance Appraisal
Performance Appraisal
Research Methodology
Variables
Results
Data Analysis and Interpretation
Discussion
Conclusion
Recommendations
Conclusion and Implications

From the Paper:

"Till the end of 80s, though there was a large body of research in aspects of performance appraisal concerning accuracy of measurement, employee participation, types of performance measurements and other areas, there was no substantial research that specifically linked increased job performance and effective performance measurement with the performance appraisals. Then in 1994, a study conducted by Bruns and McKinnon, studied the following hypotheses and determined the link between performance appraisals and increased job performance through them. The first hypothesis stated that employees in organizations with well-defined, regular performance appraisal systems have more knowledge of their daily activities in more specific, precise terms than employees in corporations where this is not the case. The study further concluded that these organizations hence experience increased employee performance. The second hypothesis stated that employees in companies with well-defined and periodic performance appraisal systems concentrate their tasks on areas on which they are evaluated. In other words, such performance appraisals effectively measure the employee performance. This study has further been used throughout this paper as a recent step in this evolutionary process with the previous studies taken as classics."

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