Craig, beatty and baird model of performance appraisal-A comprehensive overview

Performance appraisal is a tool used to assess employee performance in a scientific manner. It is an operational function carried out by human resource department to enhance the productivity of employees and thereby achieve organisational effectiveness. There are several steps involved in the process of performance appraisal. Most of the literate suggested that Standard fixation, were the major steps consisting in performance appraisal. But at same time there is only a single standard model is available from different literature for the better understanding of performance appraisal process, i.e., Craig, Beatty and Baird (1986) model of Performance Appraisal. This article tries to give a more comprehensive overview on Craig, Beatty and Baird (1986) model of Performance Appraisal.