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APPENDICES:
EXSTING APPRAISAL FORMS: APA-1 TO APA-8
KEY RESPONSIBILITY AREAS (KRAs)
1. PURPOSE OF STUDY
After employee selection, performance appraisal is the most important management tool
for the success and growth of any organization. The performance appraisal, when properly
carried out, can help to fine tune and reward the performance of present employee and
align the personal goals of the employee with the organizational goals.
Performance appraisal for evaluation using the traditional approach has served the
following purposes:
Promotion, separation, and transfer decisions
Feedback to the employee regarding how the organization viewed the employees
performance
Evaluations of relative contributions made by individuals and entire departments in
achieving higher level organization goals
Criteria for evaluating the effectiveness of selection and placement decisions, including
the relevance of the information used in the decisions within the organization
Reward decisions, including merit increases, promotions, and other rewards
Ascertaining and diagnosing training and development decisions
Criteria for evaluating the success of training and development decisions
The age old performance appraisal systems in many of India public sector banks play the
traditional role well. But the present situation demands much more from the performance
appraisal system, because of which the system need to be dynamic and needs to be
revamped over a period of time. Hence the purpose of this study is to analyze the current
appraisal system, and suggest some changes in the methodology and in the performance
appraisal form which can address the problems enumerated in this study.
2. PROBLEM DEFINITION
The traditional performance appraisal system present in union bank of India (with about
26000 employees) serves the regular purposes of control, promotion decisions, reward
decisions, feedback etc. But the fallacies in the appraisal system like subjectivity,