Benefits of Effective Appraisal

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THE BENEFITS OF EFFECTIVE APPRAISAL

Effective appraisal is grounded in the belief that feedback on past performance influences future performance, and that the process of isolating and rewarding good performance is likely to repeat it.

Agreement on challenging but achievable targets for performance motivates employees by clarifying goals and setting the value of incentives offered.

Staff appraisal can have benefits for both the employer (the organisation) and the employee:

benefits for the employer benefits for the employee
• it provides a formal system for assessing the performance and potential of employees, with a view to identifying candidates for promotion. • the employee gets feedback about performance at work, and an assessment of competence.

• it provides a system for identifying ways of improving the competence of employees, in order to raise the general level of efficiency and effectiveness of the work force. • a formal appraisal system offers the employee an opportunity to discuss future prospects and ambitions.

• it is a valuable system for humanresource planning, and ensuring that employees are ready for promotion, to fillmanagement job vacancies that arise. • an appraisal interview may beused as a basis for considering pay and rewards.
• if it is well managed, communications can be improved between managers and staff and so improve working relationships. • appraisal can be used to identify and agree measures for further training anddevelopment, to improve the employee’s competence.
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