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Performance Appraisal Questions

Determine why organizations can have higher productivity when top managers encourage
supervisors to set goals, assess performance, and provide feedback to employees. Support
your answer with examples. Then, describe the experience you have had with performance
appraisals and how your performance has been influenced by them. 

It is true that when top managers encourage supervisors to set goals, assess performance,
and provide feedback to employees, the organization enjoys higher levels of productivity. This is
because the productivity of an organization is the aggregate productivity of all of its employees
(Tziner & Rabenu, 2018). Thus, increasing productivity of individual employees greatly
improves productivity of the organization.

Employee productivity can be increased through effective communication of
expectations, assessment of performance, and provision of timely feedback. Effective
communication of goals and expectations helps employees know exactly what they need to do,
how to do it and the time that they need to do it (Tziner & Rabenu, 2018). They can, therefore,
allocate their time to activities that lead to efficient achievement of the organization’s objectives.
Once they begin working on given tasks, it is important to regularly assess the performance of
employees to make sure that they are doing the right thing and at the right speed. Performance
assessment also provides the basis of providing employee feedback (Tziner & Rabenu, 2018).
Done at the right time and in a precise manner, feedback can help to motivate employees thus
leading to even higher productivity.

My belief in importance of effective performance appraisal is not just based on what I
have read but also what I have experienced. I worked in an organization that conducted

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performance appraisal and provided feedback to employees after every two months. Employees
could then know what they were doing right and what they needed to improve on. At the end of
the year, employees who had performed well would be awarded with salary increase on their
base pay. Knowing that working hard and improving our performance rating would lead to salary
increment at the end of the years greatly motivated us to increase our productivity and
effectiveness.
Go to  businessballs’ Website  and review the information regarding performance
appraisals. Next, rate the importance of measuring performance and providing an
opportunity for feedback. Support your position.
Performance measurement is important because it provides organizations an opportunity
to give appropriate feedback to employees. This is important because feedback helps in
improving individual and organizational performance. Through feedback, employees get to know
their strengths and weaknesses (Audia & Tams, 2017). They can then find ways of improving
their weak areas so that they can achieve optimal performance. Thus, apart from leading to
professional growth and increase in competence of employees, timely and effective feedback
significantly improves organizational performance.

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References

Audia, P. G., & Tams, S. (2017). Goal setting, performance appraisal, and feedback across
cultures. The Blackwell Handbook of Cross‐Cultural Management, 142-
154.
Tziner, A., & Rabenu, E. (2018). The performance appraisal system (PAS). In Improving
Performance Appraisal at Work. Edward Elgar Publishing.