Effectiveness of performance appraisal system in sugar mills at Erode District - Tamilnadu

Performance appraisal is a process of evaluating an employee's performance of a job in terms of its requirements. It as a “process of estimating or judging the value, excellence, qualities or status of some object, person or thing”. Performance appraisal has been considered as a most significant and indispensable tool for an organization, for the information it provides is highly useful in making decisions regarding various personal aspects such as promotions and merit increases.

The Government is taking a large number of steps to improve the sugarcane yield, ensuring better milling and recovery, increasing investment for managing mill By-products, revival and rehabilitation of closed and sick mills and above all for providing prompt and better remuneration to sugarcane farmers. It also considers about the various factors that influences the proper implementation and successive running of the performance appraisal system that is implemented by the company.

In every organization, job satisfaction plays a vital role. Employees tend to satisfy if they meet their needs, wants, requirements and most of all job recognition and encouragement from the top management is expected so their work has to be appreciated by a method of performance appraisal. So by enhancing these appraisal techniques, it helps in level of job satisfaction and healthy work atmosphere.

Performance appraisal is done to maintain individual and group development by informing the employee of his performance standard, to suggest ways of improving the employee's performance when he is not found to be up to the mark during the review period, to identify training and development needs and to evaluate effectiveness of training and development programmers and to plan career development, human resources planning based on potentialities.