Performance Appraisal System: A Predictor for Performance of Employees in Engineering Sector

Performance appraisal is virtuous because it makes employees to work hard and fulfil their responsibilities hence, contribute to the overall performance of the organisation. But, unless performance appraisal is performed effectively, it may not help the organization to achieve the objectives of conducting it in the first place that is, to improve organisational performance. In the Engineering sector, Performance Appraisal is the systematic evaluation to understand the abilities of a person for growth and development through mapping the performances at jobs. In this sector there are ways for measuring the systematically as follows: a) the concerning authority measures the pay of employees and compare it with targets and plans. b) The concerning authority investigates the factors behind work performances of employees. c) The employers are in position to guide the employees for a better performance after critically evaluation. For this study total 150 employees were selected to examine the existence of performance appraisal system in their organizations and the impact on their decisions for enhancement. The statistical tools correlation and regression were applied.