Your Status: Logged out Log in

Industrial Psychology - The importance of performance appraisal.  

Member rating: No Rating | Words: | Submitted: Mon Jun 19 2006

Page Preview
Preview
Previous 1 of 6 Next

On the left is an image preview of every page of this document, and below are the first 150 words with formatting removed:

Industrial Psychology The importance of performance appraisal Assignment by Konstantinos Tachtsidis After employee selection, performance appraisal is arguably the most important management tool that an employer has. The performance appraisal, when properly carried out, can help to help develop and reward the performance of present employees. The strengths of the performance appraisal are its ability to promote a two-way communication between the supervisor and the person being appraised and to help the employee to take more responsibility for improving his/her performance. In contrast, in the old fashioned traditional performance appraisal, the supervisor acts more as a judge of employee performance than as a coach. By doing so, unfortunately, the focus is on blame rather than on helping the employee assume responsibility for improvement. In today's fast-paced business world, it may seem like a luxury for organizations to spend precious resources for planning, developing and engaging in...

Get instant access



  • Instant, unlimited access to our documents in full
  • Swap your work for free access, or pay £4.99
  • To see the full version of this document and 147,383 others
Register Now
OR

Receive email updates for this category



  • Simply tell us your email address and receive a weekly Study Help Email for FREE
  • Receive 3 FREE essay views with each email
  • Get all the latest essays from Coursework.Info & discussion from TheStudentRoom.co.uk