“Performance appraisal system and its impact on motivation: A case of non-academic staff in University of Jaffna”

Performance appraisals are essential for the effective management and evaluation of staff. Appraisals help to develop individuals and improve organizational performance. Performance management is a continuous process. Appraisals are periodic activities Performance Appraisal (PA) as the personal activity by means of which the enterprise determines the extent to which the employee is performing the job effectively. The research problem of this study is to identify the relationship between performance appraisal systems and the motivation of non-academic staff in university of Jaffna. The objective of the study is find out the impact of performance appraisal system on motivation of non-academic staff in university of Jaffna. The results of this study Regression analysis was carried out to the test the impact of performance appraisal system on motivation of non-academic staff in university of Jaffna. Here performance appraisal system is the independent variables and motivation is dependent variable. Model summary table indicates, we can observe that performance appraisal system is influenced by motivation by 32.7%, which is significant at 0.01 levels.