Performance Appraisal Hrm Absolute Standards

European Journal of Social Sciences – Volume 7, Number 3 (2009)

A New Framework for Selection of the Best Performance Appraisal Method
Mostafa Jafari Industrial Engineering Department, Iran University of Science & Technology Narmak, Tehran, Iran E-mail: [e-mail] Tel: [phone] Atieh Bourouni Industrial Engineering Department, Iran University of Science & Technology Narmak, Tehran, Iran E-mail: [e-mail] Tel: [phone] Roozbeh Hesam Amiri Industrial Engineering Department, Iran University of Science & Technology Narmak, Tehran, Iran E-mail: [e-mail] Tel: [phone]; Fax: [phone] Abstract Performance appraisal is one of the most important processes in human resource management, because it has a great effect on both the financial and program components of any organization. There is a verity of methods for the appraisal of employees' performance. Obviously, no method can claim that it has an integrated approach in performance appraisal. Therefore, human resource managers should select an appraisal method which is most efficient in their organizations. In this paper, we propose a framework for the selection of appraisal methods and compare some performance appraisal methods in order to facilitate the selection process for organizations. The value of this framework is that, with use of it, organisations can evaluate their performance appraisal method with respect to the key features of it before implementing any method as well as expending extra costs. This framework is theoretical in nature, and is build based on a review of related literature. Keywords: Human Resource Management, Absolute Standards, Relative Standards, Objectives Approach, Simple Additive Weighting (SAW), Personnel Psychology

1. Introduction
One of the basic and major needs in any organization is to evaluate its employee’s performance contiguously and continually to find out whether they improve or not and know their

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