EMPLOYEES' PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND ORGANIZATIONAL PRODUCTIVITY
CHAPTER ONE INTRODUCTION 1.1 Background of the Study Performance appraisal is an essential tool of personnel management across different organizational culture, it is designed to identify employee’s current level of job performance, identify his/her strengths and weaknesses, enable employees to improve their performance and provide the basis for reward or penalty in relation to the contribution or lack of it to corporate goals. Performance appraisal equally serves the purpose of identifying training and development needs, identifying potential performance, provide information for succession planning, validate selection process and training, encourage supervisory understanding of the subordinates (Shehu, 2018). This, perhaps is the reason that performance appraisal has been identified as being at the heart of personnel management. As one of the most important functions of the human resource manager, it is concerned with identifying, m...