What Makes a Performance Appraisals so Effective

What Makes A Performance Appraisals So Effective

Bus 303: Human Resource Management

Instructor: Timothy Koester

April 9, 2012

What Makes a Performance Appraisal So Effective

“Performance appraisal is the process through which employee performance is assessed,

feedback is provided to the employee, and corrective action plans are designed.” (Youssef 2012).

In today’s business world employees represent one of organizations most valuable assets.

This means that organization productivity depend on making sure that every person there in the

organization is working up to his or her full potential. This is why solid performance reviewing

process is absolutely critical to the success of a company. Without it employees don’t have a

clear idea of what’s needed from them, and may not be aiming or working towards the goals that

contribute most to the long term success of a business ( Sharpe 2010). So within my research I

plan to discuss how effective the performance appraisal is, it’s advantages disadvantages and

how it can increase employees performance.

When it comes to a performance appraisal a good performance review process can be effective

and increase employees performance. A performance appraisal has it’s advantages and it also has

it’s disadvantages.

Advantages are:

* Gives employees an understanding of their individual goals and how they fit into the picture (humanresource2010).

* Provide a connection between business objectives and employees day to day activates.

* Make sure employees know what’s expected of them by setting goals, establishing timelines, tracking progress, and identify obstacles.

* Keep track of employee’s progress against performance goals so it’s easier to identify who is delivering and contributing the most to the success of the business.

* Also helps to contribute to ongoing satisfaction and productivity by recognizing and rewarding employees for exceptional effort.

* It...