Performance appraisal systems

Question

In what condition the performance appraisal systems are failing?

Answer 1

The chief causes for performance appraisal system to fail are illustrated below:

i) A most of time the performance appraisal system tries to evaluate the personality traits of its employees throughout their line manager. There are two kinds of problems in this:

- The employees don’t open up as they don’t desire any negative personality trait to be recorded in official records.

- The line managers are not capable and completely trained of assessing the personality traits of employees.