Performance Appraisal: A Critical Review and Description of Aspects

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Introduction
Performance appraisal is a technique or a method where the performance of an employee
in a certain job or area of specialization is evaluated and documented. It is also called a
performance review or performance evaluation. It is actually an integral part of career
development (Mulvaney et al, 2012). This writer up consists of a critical review of performance
appraisal and a description of some of its aspects but based on an excerpt in an article called “HR
Goes Agile”. The performance appraisal strengthens the general knowledge of this review. Its
applicability and overall implications in an organization have also been mentioned (Shaout &
Trivedi, 2013).
Literature review
The article HR Goes Agile indicates that sometimes back when many organizations
adopted the agile methods in their operations and incorporated it into their systems they realized
that it was of no any significance that to plan for a whole financial year regarding how certain
projects would be run. This resulted in the elimination of the annual performance review in
regard to annual employee’s goals. Working in short term projects employees were supervised
by different personnel in the organization. It is seen that much feedback was needed, not

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annually but periodically that were supposed to be conducted after the completion of a project
(Bernardin & Wiatrowski, 2013).
We also see that when Johnson & Johnson offered their business to participate in an
experiment, in the long run, after the four months it was noted that 46% of the managers had
joined the customized app and about 3000 pieces of feedback had been exchanged despite the
fact that at the start only 10% of the managers had joined. This clearly indicates how periodic
performance appraisal is important (Cardy et al, 2007). This means execution examination can
without a doubt be utilized as a device of execution change to an association. This article has
various ramifications to different sorts association and its appropriateness is so satisfying.
Execution examination, for example, can be utilized as a device of wage and pay an organization
to workers in light of their execution (Cardy& Leonard, 2011). As we as a whole know
inspiration is exceptionally key and assumes a vital part in an association, well execution
examination takes part in this, it can really be utilized as a method for representative inspiration
by the arrangement of specific prizes to the best-performing workers in an association.
Disciplines can likewise be controlled by the workers that are not performing so well to
influence them to enhance in their execution. There are such a large number of comparable
articles and bits of literary works tending to the issue of execution and it has been noticed that
from every one of these articles and bits of writing one thing without a doubt emerges, that
execution evaluation encourages correspondence in associations.
Critical review
From this article a number of facts are clear about performance appraisal; one is that
among the primary goals of utilizing performance appraisal is a performance improvement.