OBJECTIVES OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL

abhishreshthaa

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The main objective of performance is to improve the performance of the organization through improved employee performance. The goal of performance appraisal is to allow the employee the opportunity to progress to their full potential in order to meet the organizational needs and his personal development goals. Through this process, true teamwork and maximum performance can be achieved. The foundation of the performance appraisal is improved communication between the employee and the manager.


Objectives of performance appraisal are depicted below:


1. To increase motivation and productivity:
Performance appraisal helps employees to set plan work and identify skills in order to achieve them. Employee is motivated as there is clarity of what he is required to do in a given period. Increased clarity brings greater focus on job related activities, which in turns facilitates better performance, efficiency and commitment. This increases the productivity of the individual employees and the organization stands benefited out of improved performance of employees.



2. To enhance transparency:
Setting of performance targets /objectives, agreement on measurement criteria and organizations expectations of desired performance level brings to transparency to the appraisal process.



3. To retain top talent:
Performance appraisal helps organization in taking people related decisions such as career planning, career development, promotions, training and development opportunities, and succession planning. Meritorious employees are rewarded better with increased compensation, promotions, leadership grooming opportunities, job rotations, etc. and help retain top talents in the organization by satisfying their growth and development needs.


4. To increase commitment:
Employee’s involvement in planning of work and identification of skills helps to bring greater self-awareness and increases his commitment to the objectives of performance appraisal activities. Performance appraisal provides an opportunity to communicate performance feedback, review the job description, plan upcoming goals and objectives and develop an individual development plan.


5. To develop employees:
Performance appraisal accord an opportunity to develop an employee through the identification of gaps in skills and competencies. Once deficiencies in skills and competencies has identified, suitable training and development programmes can be established for rectifying the gaps/deficiency. This results in personal and professional development of employees.
 
It is very much clear that objective appraisal is mandatory for smooth functioning got to understand about objectives but, would you please elaborate something about the following point given below.

Types of performance appraisal systems
Purpose of performance appraisal
Importance of performance appraisal
Purpose of performance appraisal system
Objective of performance appraisal
Methods of performance appraisal
Process of performance appraisal
 

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In short Performance Appraisal is a tool for the systematic evaluation of the performance of employees and to understand the abilities of a person in his current job profile and role.
 
The main objective of performance is to improve the performance of the organization through improved employee performance. The goal of performance appraisal is to allow the employee the opportunity to progress to their full potential in order to meet the organizational needs and his personal development goals. Through this process, true teamwork and maximum performance can be achieved. The foundation of the performance appraisal is improved communication between the employee and the manager.


Objectives of performance appraisal are depicted below:


1. To increase motivation and productivity:
Performance appraisal helps employees to set plan work and identify skills in order to achieve them. Employee is motivated as there is clarity of what he is required to do in a given period. Increased clarity brings greater focus on job related activities, which in turns facilitates better performance, efficiency and commitment. This increases the productivity of the individual employees and the organization stands benefited out of improved performance of employees.



2. To enhance transparency:
Setting of performance targets /objectives, agreement on measurement criteria and organizations expectations of desired performance level brings to transparency to the appraisal process.



3. To retain top talent:
Performance appraisal helps organization in taking people related decisions such as career planning, career development, promotions, training and development opportunities, and succession planning. Meritorious employees are rewarded better with increased compensation, promotions, leadership grooming opportunities, job rotations, etc. and help retain top talents in the organization by satisfying their growth and development needs.


4. To increase commitment:
Employee’s involvement in planning of work and identification of skills helps to bring greater self-awareness and increases his commitment to the objectives of performance appraisal activities. Performance appraisal provides an opportunity to communicate performance feedback, review the job description, plan upcoming goals and objectives and develop an individual development plan.


5. To develop employees:
Performance appraisal accord an opportunity to develop an employee through the identification of gaps in skills and competencies. Once deficiencies in skills and competencies has identified, suitable training and development programmes can be established for rectifying the gaps/deficiency. This results in personal and professional development of employees.


Hey abhi, you have shared a very nice information about performance appraisal which is needed to maximize the performance of organization by bringing improvement in employee's performance. I am also adding a document which can give some more detailed information on the subject.
 

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