Performance Appraisal and Bullying in the Workplace

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Part 1
Introduction
Performance appraisal plays a vital role in ensuring that organizations achieve their
objective within a particular period. It is the practice of assessing employee’s performance in
comparison to particular predetermined standards of the company. It is usually used to obtain,
analyze as well as record evidence concerning the values of the staff to that of the organization.
Various companies have employed the use of performance appraisal to analyze staff performance
especially in healthcare, the advantages and disadvantages to determine if there is a need to train
as well as suitability for promotion. Moreover, organizations uses the performance appraisal to
allocate rewards to employees with exemplary performance, offer advice to those with dismal
performance as well as understand their opinion concerning their department, position, and the
entire organization.
Significances of Performance Appraisal in Companies
One of the main strategic benefits of the performance review to the organization is that it
can be used to measure the worker's performance thereby enabling the organization to know if
the progress of the work is headed towards the desired aims and goals. Additionally, employees
can receive a bonus as a result of excellent appraisal which helps in motivation building among
the workers. Hospital mostly uses this technique to encourage health care providers who operate
at night shifts. Performance appraisal also contributes towards the achievement of the
organizational goals since it plays a crucial role in assisting the employee to have a clear
understanding of their duties as well as responsibility through giving direction to individual
performance (Bernardin, & Wiatrowski, 2013).

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Secondly, performance appraisal helps in identifying the weakness and the strength of the
workers within the organization. Therefore, organizations can evaluate the vulnerability at the
right time and come up with ways on how to deal with the weakness. Thus, this can help the
workers to enhance their efforts towards meeting the standards set by the company. Moreover,
after identification of strength of employees through performance review, the organization can
decide to motivate the work through rewards so that they can work hard towards set goals
(Venclová, Salková, & Kolácková, 2013). Through performance appraisal, supervises and staffs
are encouraged to have continued as well as organize dialogue, provide feedback to employees
after a comprehensive assessment. Therefore, this assists with the evaluation of the current and
past performance with the goal of discovering if there is a probability of improvement of
performance to achieve the organization goals.
Finally, performance appraisal assists the management when it comes to the control of
the organization targets as a result of employee's performance. Through creations of a healthy
environment between the supervisor and employees, there is always a smooth flow of duties due
to positive attitudes (Warokka, Gallato, Thamendren, & Moorthy, 2012). Therefore this often
leads to the achievement of the company goals at the right time. Performance review also
provides all information concerning task as well as job responsibility thereby making all
functions to be performed by workers clear. Thus, this minimizes the number of errors associated
due to lack of information among the employee leading to achievement of the goals and aims set
by various organizations. Through performance appraisal, complains of the employees are
looked and deal with within the right time leading to better performance and achievement of the
organization goals.
Part 2