Expanded Dimensions Of The Purposes And Uses Of Performance Appraisal
This paper attempts to develop an understanding of performance appraisal (PA) and to identify inconsistencies in its purposes and uses through an analysis of previous studies. The paper explores the purposes and uses of PA in the literature and devises a scheme for classifying the practice of PA...
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| Language: | English |
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Asian Academy of Management (AAM)
2012
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| Online Access: | http://eprints.usm.my/36572/ http://eprints.usm.my/36572/1/AAMJ_17.1.3.pdf |
| Summary: | This paper attempts to develop an understanding of performance appraisal (PA) and to
identify inconsistencies in its purposes and uses through an analysis of previous studies.
The paper explores the purposes and uses of PA in the literature and devises a scheme for
classifying the practice of PA into four categories – administrative, developmental,
strategic, and role definition. This work was done to expand our understanding of
performance appraisal and to highlight its uses in connection with other human resource
management and development functions. The study finds that previous researchers
devoted the most attention to PA conducted for administrative purposes, followed by PA
for developmental purposes; the strategic category of PA was studied somewhat, whereas
PA for purposes of role definition was almost ignored. The author offers a full-scale
inventory of the purposes and uses of PA for researchers, performance raters and ratees.
The study proposes that raters need to focus on the broader dimensions of PA, not simply
its administrative functions. |
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