Abstract:
At an organizational level, the employee performance appraisal system (EPAS)
impacts other HR/ Administration Systems as well as organizational strategy. The
effectiveness of the EPAS of an organization is dominant for ensuring the success of
its recruitment, selection, employment, training, disciplinary management and
employee motivational practices at a strategic level. This study aims to evaluate the
existing EPASs in the semi govemment research organizations in the plantation sector
of Sri Lanka. and to investigate its influence on employee performance.
The EPAS is the independent variable and the dependent variable is employee
performance in the selected organizations. Through the literature survey, eight
important dimensions to compute independent variable and four dimensions to
compute dependent variable have been identified and the hypotheses formulated for
testing the relationship between the independent and dependent variables.
II
A sample of 68 managerial level employees who are engaged in evaluating
performance of their subordinates have been randomly selected from the relevant
research organizations, and a questionnaire used to collect primary data over a period
from 02nd May 2015 to 03'd June 2015. Research questionnaire comprised of different
types of questions for which scores were assigned according to five-point likert scale.
Data analysis of this study has been carried out using the statistical package for social
sciences (SPSS).
The study reveals that, correlation between EPAS and employee performance in the
selected research organizations is "Iow to moderate", yet significant.
The results suggest that, the current EPASs of research organizations in the plantation
sector of Sri Lanka, need to be revised and further improved for realizing the
important purposes of employee performance appraisals and then for better employee
performance towards better organizational productivity.
