Performance Appraisal

Performance appraisal is the method of evaluating the behavior of the employees in a workplace, normally included both the quantitative and qualitative aspects of job performance. Performance here refers to the degree of accomplishments of the tasks that make up an individual’s job. Performance is measured in terms of the results. Thus, performance appraisal is the process of assessing the performance or progress of the employees, or a group of employees on the given job, as well as his potential for organization to evaluate contribution, personality and potential of individual employees. In other words, performance appraisal includes the comparison of performance scales of different individuals holding similar areas of work responsibilities

METHODS OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL:

1. STRAIGHT RANKING METHOD: The method is the oldest and simplest one. In method, the man and his performance are considered as an entity by the rater. In this method, the ‘whole man’ is compared with the ‘whole man’ i.e., the ranking of a man in a work group is done against that of another. The relative position of each person is tested in terms of his numerical rank. It may also be done by ranking a person on his job performance against that of another member of a competitive group by placing him as number one or two or three in a total group i.e., persons are tested in order of merit and placed in a simple

PAIRED COMPARISION METHOD: In order to remove the defects of the aforesaid technique, the paired comparison technique has been evolved. Under this technique, each employee is compared every trait with all other persons in pairs one at a time. in this method, judgment is easier and simpler than with the ordinary ranking method. in this technique ,for every trait (i.e. quantity of work, quality of work, dependability, and so on)every subordinate is paired with and compared to every other subordinate. for instance if there are 5 employees to be rated ,then in paired comparison method a chart will have to be made of all possible pairs of employees for each trait .thereafter for each trait, the rater should indicate with –ive and +ive who is better employee of the pair. Then the number of times an employee is rated better is added