How to Use the Performance Appraisal System as a Motivator to Improve Organizational Commitment?

How to Use the Performance Appraisal System as a Motivator to Improve Organizational Commitment?

Since the new public management (NPM) type administrative reform, manyorganizations have introduced the performance-oriented management and performanceappraisal has been focused as a type of the performance-oriented management.Performance appraisal provides information that is relevant for many personneldecisions, including salary increase, recommendations for promotion, transfers, andtraining programs, as well as for employee development and performance feedback.Organizations use performance appraisal depending upon various goals. However,performance appraisal systems often involve multiple, conflicting goals. Althoughperformance appraisal provides various uses, it cannot accomplish all uses at once.Previous studies of performance appraisal have focused on how employees react oraccept performance appraisal and how to design performance appraisal effectively.Therefore, I will examine the use of performance appraisal in light of improvement oforganizational commitment.