Question

Exam type question

It has been argued that performance appraisal is fraught with problems. Identify three of these problems and explain what can be done to eradicate these three problems from performance appraisal.

Answer 1

Deciding performance appraisal for the employees can be very difficult as it requires proper measurement of the performance of any specific employee which comes with large amount of problems as well.

Some problems with performance appraisal are as follows

Unconscious bias

Unconscious bias can be defined as a term that happens without your consent. Unconscious bias can occur in any situation and mostly happens without the consent, most of the times we don't even know that the unconscious why is happened. It widely affects the overall decision making which is directly based on the unconscious feelings that we have towards different peoples. It plays an important role in our life to make many of the decisions which are not actively taken.
Unconscious bias directly affects the overall appraisal process as it is not invoked by the employee but by the persons differences of the specific manager.

Superiority

Superiority as well as introducing non related strategy into a negotiation process can lead to disastrous result hence the overall strategies used in the negotiation process should be simplified and kept as simple as possible. By keeping the simplicity of the processes and easily understandable structure we can easily improve the overall communication inside the negotiation process.
by avoiding the complexity in the contract as well as this in the communication process inside in negotiation we can easily improve the overall communication in negotiation process.

Expert bias

Expert play an important role in recommendation for performance management as well as the appraisals. Recommendation of the experts are considered as one of the best sources of information regarding the appraisal of the specific employees. Administrators usually depend on the experts analyse the specific employee and have an opinion over the appraisal as well as specific performance of that is specific employee. As we can see that an expert recommendation is usually sufficient for the administrator to fill out the specific creating forms regarding the appraisal.
Analysis of the overall work done by the employee inside the organisation as well as the article position of the employee inside your organisation is also usually analysed for the appraisal. This specific factors ensure the credibility of an employee and value of the employee towards the organisation which directly reflects in the appraisal report.
Expert opinions does play a very important role in modifying the decision of administrator for the appraisal of an employee.