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Understanding The Fundamentals of Perfrormance Appraisal For Improving Employees Performance
Understanding The Fundamentals of Perfrormance Appraisal For Improving Employees Performance
Benefits
Potential employees are often given promotions or demoted on the basis of the
results of performance appraisals.
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It is a fact that each employee will always portray certain areas as their weakness and
others as their strengths. What you need to do is to ensure that you do not colour the
entire evaluation with a particular impression.
2. Contrast error
It is also important to keep in mind that you are not comparing or contrasting employees
against each other. The contrast error occurs when employee is rated without taking
into account the performance standard. The negative consequence of this error is that it
brings down scores of good performers, they feel demotivated and hence it affects their
productivity.
3. Rater bias
The rater’s prejudices and biasness also influences performance rating. For example,
a appraiser can underrate an appraisee based on race, sex, religion, appearance and
favouritism. Just because you may not like a person doesn’t mean the evaluation of
their performance must reflect that. Keep it as objective as possible.
4.Recency effect
Many organisations ,has tendency of rating employees by basing their evaluation on
what an employee has achieved just before the assessment. In this case, it sounds
unfair to employees who have been outstanding throughout but later faulted few days to
assessment and vice versa because the appraisal will not be able to reveal the actual
reality.
Conclusion
Employees are most important assets of an organisation so measuring their
performance on periodic basis is necessary, in order to determine whether employees
are able to meet set standards effectively and efficiently and also to find out any
deviation in performance so to give them feedback immediately in order to improve their
further performance. Therefore very organisation must conduct performance appraisal
on yearly basis in order to improve employee’s as well as organisational productivity
and must offer improvement opportunities, such as training, seminars, mentorships or
classes to employees desiring to improve their performance appraisals.