PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL IN FORMAL WORK ORGANIZATIONS: AN OVERVIEW

Abstract

Performance appraisal is an important organizational practice required for the effective management of modern work organizations. The philosophy of performance appraisal is hinged on the fact that in order to achieve an ever-progressive productive capacity of the employees, there is the need for time to time evaluation of their activities not only to achieve the organizational objectives but also to encourage the employees to develop productive work behaviours. However, despite the importance of performance appraisal to the effective performance of today’s work organizations, many managers of have not take cognizance of the practice, even some who are aware of it perform the exercise wrongly. As such, this paper is an effort geared towards correcting this anomaly which could be responsible for prevalent rate of counter-productive behaviours in many work organizations in Nigeria today. In other words, this paper examine the importance of performance appraisal in formal work organization and at the same time assesse some important existing appraisal methods. In the end, the paper recommended some salient points which if strictly followed in the performance appraisal exercise will not only make performance appraisal exercise possible but also fruitful.