A Critical Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Performance Appraisal Methods

This study evaluates the effectiveness of several performance appraisal methods in a critical way and compares them from different perspectives to illustrate the benefits as well as limitations of each of them. Further it also identifies how the participants think about these methods in practice in...

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Main Author: wang, ye
Format: Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)
Language:English
Published: 2017
Online Access:https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46185/
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description This study evaluates the effectiveness of several performance appraisal methods in a critical way and compares them from different perspectives to illustrate the benefits as well as limitations of each of them. Further it also identifies how the participants think about these methods in practice in order to verify the arguments form academics. The objective of this dissertation is to make people have a better understanding of the features of different performance appraisal methods, and help them to adopt these techniques in an effective way. The study followed exploratory approach where researches about these performance appraisal methods are provided with practical evidences collected from a group of interviewees. Besides, this study was depended on qualitative technique for collecting data where the interviews were used to collect the data from 12 employees in four different companies, among which two of the companies are from the UK while the other are from China. According to the analysis of the results, some findings are explained combined with the research data, and recommendations based on that are also provided as a guide for readers in the end of the dissertation.
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spelling nottingham-461852018-04-12T10:12:12Z https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46185/ A Critical Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Performance Appraisal Methods wang, ye This study evaluates the effectiveness of several performance appraisal methods in a critical way and compares them from different perspectives to illustrate the benefits as well as limitations of each of them. Further it also identifies how the participants think about these methods in practice in order to verify the arguments form academics. The objective of this dissertation is to make people have a better understanding of the features of different performance appraisal methods, and help them to adopt these techniques in an effective way. The study followed exploratory approach where researches about these performance appraisal methods are provided with practical evidences collected from a group of interviewees. Besides, this study was depended on qualitative technique for collecting data where the interviews were used to collect the data from 12 employees in four different companies, among which two of the companies are from the UK while the other are from China. According to the analysis of the results, some findings are explained combined with the research data, and recommendations based on that are also provided as a guide for readers in the end of the dissertation. 2017-09-14 Dissertation (University of Nottingham only) NonPeerReviewed application/pdf en https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46185/1/Dissertation-2017-ye%20wang.pdf wang, ye (2017) A Critical Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Performance Appraisal Methods. [Dissertation (University of Nottingham only)]
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A Critical Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Performance Appraisal Methods
title A Critical Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Performance Appraisal Methods
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title_fullStr A Critical Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Performance Appraisal Methods
title_full_unstemmed A Critical Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Performance Appraisal Methods
title_short A Critical Evaluation of the Effectiveness of Performance Appraisal Methods
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url https://eprints.nottingham.ac.uk/46185/