Appraisal process

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An Examination of the Performance Appraisal Process Assignment

Background

Understanding the performance appraisal process is an important dimension in providing motivation to employees and helping to optimize their work. Performance appraisals assess an employee’s performance, and also they can provide a platform for feedback to employees about their performance expectations – past, current, and future. While performance appraisals are utilized for administering wages and salaries, they also provide insight into employee strengths and weaknesses and provide opportunities for further employee motivation.

Essay Guidelines

Upon completion of this assignment, you should be able to:

· Discuss the performance appraisal process

· Examine tools for performance appraisal

Instructions

1. Consider individuals at work and how the performance appraisal process can be utilized to guide them in their work, to understand their strengths and weaknesses, and to provide a basis for wages and salaries.

2. Then, in at least 3 body pages of research, you must:

· demonstrate your understanding of the importance of the uses of performance appraisals (both administrative and developmental actions),

· discuss the types of appraisals (informal vs. systematic), and

· provide an examination of who conducts appraisals (the various possible rating situations) and the available tools for appraising performance.

What will your paper include?

3. An introduction that (a) engages the reader, (b) presents the focus of the paper, and (c) gives the reader an idea of the flow of the document.

4. At least 3 body pages that include a compelling demonstration of your understanding of the importance of understanding the full potential of using performance appraisals effectively.

5. A conclusion that reinforces the main ideas of the paper.

6. You will be responsible for using a minimum of 2 scholarly/peer-reviewed sources. Textbooks are not considered scholarly/peer-reviewed sources; however, they may still be included as supplemental references.

Again, your research (the body pages) is to be a minimum of 3 complete pages in length. You must also include a title page and a reference page, which are 2 additional pages. Going over the minimum page length requirement is acceptable.