Exploring the Impact of Employee Performance Appraisal in the Food and Beverages Sector

Individual Research Project

Table of Contents
INTRODUCTION...........................................................................................................................1
LITERATURE REVIEW................................................................................................................4
RESEARCH METHODOLOGY.....................................................................................................7
RESULTS........................................................................................................................................9
CONCLUSION AND RECOMMENDATIONS..........................................................................20
REFLECTION...............................................................................................................................21
REFERENCES..............................................................................................................................23

Title: To Exploring the impact of employee performance appraisal within the food and
beverages sector. A case of Brakes group.
INTRODUCTION
In an organisation, employees play a crucial role because they put their efforts for
attaining predetermined objectives. Without human resources, firm can not be able to achieve
success. Thus, it is crucial for company to give all the essential benefits to its workers as per their
performance so that they execute their top-quality and accomplish their targets in specify period
of time. For this, motivation is significant because it make employees able to give their best
performance at workplace that positively impact over the productiveness of organization and its
employees. In regards of this, performance appraisal is one of the important activity that is refers
to a formal and systematic assessment of an employees to evaluate their effectiveness towards
the job activities (Caputo and et. al., 2016). Mainly, it is based on the employees performance at
working area. As it is review of employees job performance and their overall contribution
towards the company and its set goals. Along with this, it is also based on performance
evaluation, review and their development that help business organisation in evaluating employee
productivity at workplace. One of the main advantage of performance appraisals is to guide
decision making on the basis of employment action, personnel planning and their training and
development. This straight contributes in heighten the possibilities of succeed higher level of
efficiency level of employees that support organisation in attaining competitive success at market
place. Current research is going to discussed about the impact of worker execution assessment
within the good and beverage sector. By analysing the same, firm can implanted their optimistic
firm image at competitive market.
Research aim
“To investigate the impact of employee performance appraisal within food and beverages
sector.” A case o
Research objectives
 To analyse the influence of performance appraisal.
 To determine different performance appraisal techniques applied by food and beverages
sector to improve employee performance.
 To access the advantage of employee performance appraisal within food and beverages
sector.
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Research questions
 What is the influence of performance appraisal?
 What are different performance appraisal techniques used through food and beverages
sector to improve employee performance?
 What is the advantage of employee’s performance appraisal within food and beverages
sector?
Rationale of research
The primary reason behind undertaking this investigation is to analyse the actual role and
impact of employee performance appraisal on organisational performance. This study help in
improving researcher skills and their core competencies through which they can carry out the
study in well organised and systematic manner (Adil, 2015). Mainly, this research provide vast
information to business organisation about employee performance appraisals that help in
increasing organisational profitability and at the same time also assist in keep employees for
longer period of time. Along with this, it also assist investigator in rising their research skills and
make them able in collecting relevant and authentic information towards the particular research
topic. By this, investigator can easily draw a sound decision and also eliminate all the gap that
arise in whole research activities.and make whole research more successful.
Background of research
Employee performance appraisal is considered as an important activity within the
company that refers to the organized assessment of employees performance and also understand
the abilities of an individual to attain growth and development at working area. In this, manager
of company assess workers performance against predetermined standard like appropriate job
knowledge, quality and quantity of set output, best leadership abilities, behaviour and attitude of
employees towards the allocated work and activities and many more. All these are the major
aspect that help manager in providing best appraisals to its employees in order to make them
more productive and efficient (Dora, Kumar and Gellynck, 2016). Furthermore, it is also known
as performance rating, evaluation and assessment that carried out to determine the competencies
of employees for future growth and development. In context of food and beverage industry,
organisation is responsible for measuring employees performance as per continuous basis so that
they can make them more cooperative and encouraged as well. The contribution of workers is
more essential for organization in attaining success at competitive market. This is the reason that,
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company needs to provide better training and development programs to their workforce in order
to develop their efficiency level to accomplishing their targets. In this regards, one of the main
objective of performance appraisal is to boosts its workers on the basis of their performance and
competence. Furthermore, it also help in evaluating the requirement of training and development
of employees at working area (Psomas and Jaca, 2016).
Overview of remaining Chapters
After introduction, there are various chapters of investigation which contributes in
making a research more effective and systematic as well. Literature review: This subdivision show a significant part in enquiry because it give
elaborate content to researcher on the basis of particular research theme. Mainly, it is part
of secondary sources that support investigator in evaluating the information in depth
format through which reliable and accurate decision can be easily taken (Haltiwanger,
Scarpetta and Schweiger, 2014). In this, researcher gather information from various
origin like books, journals, articles, magazines, newspapers and so on. These are directly
contributes in developing a successful research project. Research methodology: It is advised as an effective process by which scientist can gather
accurate and reliable data on the basis of employee performance appraisal. It consider
several methods and techniques which help research worker in undertaking whole
research activities in systematic way. It directly contributes in reduction the possibilities
of develop any kind of error. Results: Under this chapter, scientist analysis data in order to develop effective results.
As it is based in different view point of chosen respondents towards the research topic.
For this, questionnaire will be prepared by research in order to collect reliable data.
Overall results of research is based on different questions asked from various respondents
with the aim of understanding their opinion towards the particular issue or theme.
 Conclusion and Recommendations: It is last chapter that provide concluded information
about research as it help in summarising the whole investigation in an effective manner
(Jack, Anderson and Connolly, 2014). Along with this, recommendations is also given in
this section that support in making some necessary improvement required in the research
project in order to make it more effective and reliable as well.
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Apart from this, this chapter of research is one of effective and important because it includes
all the necessary aspect that may assist in analysing the actual results attained through current
research. As it is based on impact of employee’s performance appraisal over the company and
employee’s performance within the business organization. In this, researcher also includes
various research methodologies and techniques to gather relevant data and information about
specified topic and area as well. The main focus of investigator is to set appropriate objectives
from different sites and articles that may provide some authentic information about the research
topic. This can be beneficial intaking right decisions that support in making entire research
project more reliable. Along with this, investigator also includes literature review wherein they
include various articles and online publications that may assist in evaluating in-depth analysis
towards the selected research topic and theme as well. In addition of this, both primary and
secondary methods of data collection that support in collected valid and reliable information that
may assist in attaining set objectives in an effective manner and at the same time also may
reduce the possibilities of arising any kind of obstacles at the time of gathering data. In context
of this, there are some strength and weakness of applying methodology like primary information
is authentic in nature but at the same time also consume more time and cost of researcher in
collecting information. Furthermore, secondary method is effective as it is cost and time
effective but on the other side it creates issue in gathering data as it is not much reliable and
authentic. This can be negatively affecting the overall results of research activities. Thus, it is
crucial for researcher to effectively review or analyse the methodology before applying. By this
reliable and authentic outcome can be easily attained.
LITERATURE REVIEW
Literature review is considered as a comprehensive summary that is based in the previous
study and topic as well. It includes various sources like books, articles, magazines and many
more relevant sources through which researcher collect theoretical information about the impact
of employee performance appraisals. This will provide better support to researcher in
representation a sound judgement by taking right and accurate decision at the end of the work.
Mainly it is based on different research objectives on which researcher provide their views and
opinion to improve the possibilities of attaining optimistic outcomes that make whole research
more effective and successful as well.
Influence of performance appraisal
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