Case Study: The Poleconomics Of Performance Appraisal

CASE STUDY ONE

THE POLITICS OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL

1. Based on your view of the objectives of performance evaluation, evaluate the perspectives about performance appraisal presented by the managers.

Performance appraisal, also known as performance review is a method in which employee performance is documented and evaluated using a sets of criteria in a specific period of time. The performance appraisal widely used by employer as indicator which can be used by employer to appreciate employee contribution to the company.

In this study case, the managers shows in their discussion that there are flaws in performance evaluation system. It seems that this evaluation system allows emotional of the evaluators to creep into evaluation process. This can result in bias judgement on employee performance. For instance, on the day that you need to evaluate your employee, you suddenly have bad mood for some reason, it can cause a good employee receive a bad evaluation. This can hinder them from perform

For example, an employee who previously receive bad evaluation, however because some fine tuning in evaluation system done by manager, it is cause that employee to receive good appraisal while employees who maintain top performance receive nothing. This will reflect that employer is bias in its evaluation. This will give rise to discontent among employee which eventually affect the performance of the employee.

Excessive fine tuning on evaluation system will give problems if the manager use that fine tuning to make the performance appraisal to suit manager needs and for personal gain. For example, the manager gave the best evaluation to all his/her employees although not all employees deserve such evaluation just because manager want to keep his job or use performance appraisal to get rid employees who not in good terms with the manager by giving bad rating even if the worker had shown outstanding