Employee Performance Evaluation

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1.0 Introduction Performance appraisal defined by Schneier and Beatty as, "...the process of identifying, measuring and developing human performance in organizations" (as cited in Danielle S. Wiese, M. Ronald Buckley,1998). By refer to the Wikipedia, performance appraisal, employee appraisal, performance review is a method by which the job performance of an employee is evaluated in terms of quality, quantity, cost, and time relatively by their own superior. Some more, performance evaluation is a constructive process to acknowledge the performance of a non-probationary career employee. An employee’s evaluation shall be sufficiently specific to inform and provide the direction to the employee in the performance of his/her duties. Whereas, the Dictionary of Accounting Terms defined the performance evaluation is a cumulative consideration of factors may be subjective or objective to determine a representative indicator or appraisal of an individual or performance in reference to some standard over a period of time. Which the factors to consider may include degree of goal attainment, how items are measured, and what standards are to be applied. Says Dulewicz, “…a basic human tendency to make judgments about those one is working with, as well as about oneself.” Evaluation is seems like inevitable and essential to judge the work performance of others, including subordinates, informally and naturally even arbitrarily. For instance, informal performance evaluation systems which merit exams were given for selection and promotion decisions as early as the Han Dynasty, 206 BC-220 AD (Wren, 1994 as cited in Danielle S. Wiese, M. Ronald Buckley,1998). Without refer to such formal performance evaluation systems, decisions made must associated with a process that monitors and appraise the progression of employees and allows the comparison with others’ individual performance. Then,

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