Employees’ Perception towards Performance Management System: A Study of Selected PSUs of Uttarakhand

This is the era of globalization where the business organizations face a cut throat competition among them. The organizations have now realized the importance of new HR practices to gain a competitive advantage over others and the performance has become an important issue for consideration. It has widely been accepted that the only organization that performs will survive and succeed. That's why most of the organizations have now started focusing on the performance of their employees. Performance management acts as a subsystem of human resource management function which focuses on providing support to employees for their individual and overall organizational development. Performance management system is a system which links the processes of planning, implementing, reviewing and evaluating for maintaining growth and productivity on the both levels, individual and organizational.

The present research paper aims at identifying general understanding of employees regarding Performance Management System (PMS) and determining general employees perceptions towards the PMS implemented in the organization. The study has been conducted in the selected public sector organizations in the state of Uttarakhand. The findings of the study indicate that the employees have favorable attitude towards the performance management system implemented in the organization.