Performance Appraisal Research

3.0 METHODOLOGY

From the above study, an overview of performance appraisal in relation to management and its importance to the field of Human Resource Department was provided. One problem introduced, is the growing unwillingness on the part of organizations to experiment with performance appraisal approaches. Unfortunately, much of this experimentation does not make its way into the supporting body of knowledge. The other problem concerns performance appraisal research from the employee perspective. Although the reactions of employees to performance are of growing research interest, study lags far behind work done from the managerial or organizational perspectives. These two problems, alone, suggest many avenues of research and any number of potential studies. For this study, a manageable research question emerged: How do employees describe the experience of motivating Performance Communication discussion? This question promised contributions toward both problems. It represented an opportunity to hear the voices of employees as they describe their experiences with a substantially renewed performance management system.

To address these problems and find a response to the research question this study used a phenomenological research design. The purpose of this section is to present the research setting and describe the phenomenological research methods followed in this study.

Research setting:

The study deals with the performance appraisal in Jitambue organization board. This study is based on primary data collected by undertaking a field survey. A structured questionnaire was designed for this study, which was administered to selected sample of 80 employees of Jitambue Head office, London, belonging to all cadres of employme...

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