To What Extent Are the Difficulties Around Appraising Job Performance Insurmountable?

Journal: Modern Economics & Management Forum DOI: 10.32629/memf.v1i1.120

Haoran Shi

King's College London

Abstract

Nowadays, performance appraisal has been regarded as a critical method to evaluate employees. This article reviews the historical background of performance and the frontier theory results, and summarizes performance evaluation in research progress. The researchers present the definition of performance evaluation and analyze the advantages, disadvantages and key indicators of performance evaluation. Performance appraisal should be remained in companies’ evaluating and reward system in spite of the insurmountable surrounding difficulties while the improvement of making the assessment more acceptable and reliable is indispensable simultaneously.

Keywords

performance appraisal, key indicator, insurmountability

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