People have different abilities and capabilities in their respective job functions, and that’s the reason why the output, quality of deliverables, timeline and many other attributes varies among the individuals. Generally these attributes gets evaluated during the performance appraisal, this is the event where the abilities, competency and employees worth for the organization gets evaluated. It’s “The Time”, time for performance review for the last year and everyone is excited over it, There are two kinds of individuals one being the group of people who were contributors and consistently added values to the organization are in an upbeat mood. They being confident that there contribution will be noticed, acknowledged and appreciated and rewards will be there in the cards.
The other group is the group of people who are also equally excited, they were just present on their respective desk for the sake of physical presence, tracking the clock for office hours, entering the office to track clock buzzing the evening bell. This group firmly believes that increment is there birth right and they should be appraised no matter how they are performing, every year they need to have a share of the increments because the term itself is performance appraisal and they think that they have delivered performance which is getting assessed.
Performance appraisal means evaluation or assessing employee contribution towards the organizational goals, how the individuals were aligned with the corporate goals and have they contributed to company’s growth directly or indirectly. Have there been any performance it should be assessed, but what about the other group of people who simply pretended to be busy doing routine job through the year and boast on the outstanding performance and contribution.
Companies who don’t have proper evaluation criteria and career plan for their employees generally end up by giving salary hikes even to the non performer, passing a wrong message to the performers. As practically company is not able to differentiate apple from oranges.
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