[Performance Appraisal Is Often Neglected in Organizations. Give at Least Six Reasons Why Such an Appraisal Is Important for the Overall Success of the Business].

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[Performance Appraisal is often neglected in organizations. Give at least six reasons why such an appraisal is important for the overall success of the business].

[Introduction].

No matter what business you have as long as there is even one employee, performance appraisal should take its part in the organization.

Performance appraisal is one of the main parts of career development; “Performance appraisal is an organizational system comprising deliberate processes for determining staff accomplishments to improve staff effectiveness." (Winston & Creamer, 1997). Other words, it is a process of systematic and concrete evaluation or examination or identification of work done by employee. Performance appraisal is like an interview of another atmosphere but discussing the performance. The Performance appraisal interview should be a positive experience for manager and the employee and have to be measured annually. The purpose of the Performance appraisal in common is to increase employee’s work effectiveness. But there are others among them:

- To define employee training needs

- To explore what each can do to ensure performance improvement

- Facilitate communication between employee and administration

- To review the employee’s short term and long term goals

- To inform the employee about his overall performance rating

- Etc.

[The importance of Performance Appraisal in the business].

The performance appraisal is of the greatest importance, it stood still in each organizations and it is reasonable.

The main purpose of this process is to increase the effectiveness of an organization in common (to achieve its general goals and objectives) and all the following reasons provided will be connected with this point.

To start from “natural selection” (the strongest survives). The process is about defining employee’s performance, how do they cope with deadlines, how they achieve their goals and objectives (in this case the MBO is used*); how are they successful...