Ελληνική Κοινωνική Έρευνα -Greek Social Research

AN OVERVIEW OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL: USES, LIMITATIONS AND ISSUES AFFECTING IT MARIA KONTOPOULOU UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAVEN, 2005 Performance appraisal is rather important for the effective management and evaluation of staff. It helps develop individuals, improve organizational performance, and promote effective business planning. Performance appraisal is usually conducted annually for all organization’s staff. Each member is appraised by his/her line manager. Annual performance appraisal enables management, setting standards and objectives, and establishes individual training needs analysis and planning. Additionally, it reviews employee’s performance against the standards and objectives of the company that have been agreed through the previous year’s appraisal. Furthermore, it is essential for career and succession planning, staff motivation, promoting positive relations between management and staff. In other words, it is essential in order to manage the performance of both employee an...

Christine Sipher INTRODUCTION Schein (1990) describes organizational culture as a phenomenon that surrounds everyone, that helps them define and understand how it is created, developed and manipulated, managed and changed, which leads to culture being perhaps influenced by leadership and thus, through leadership, understanding organizational culture. Before one though can fully acknowledge what culture is in the organizational context, a clear understanding has to be given on the components of historical, employee, national and global background of an organization (e.g. corporate) and in turn, moving down to the mechanisms that make this corporate culture tick. Through these components, performance appraisals and the way conducted may be understood. Eisenberg and Goodall (2001) described how there are five areas of study that focuses on organizational culture, viewing that these are: Comparative Management, Corporate Culture, Organizational Symbolism, Postmodern Perspective...