AN EMPIRICAL STUDY ON PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND IT'S EFFECT ON EMPLOYEE MOTIVATION

Abstract Employee performance is an organization's strength, and human resource managers have historically prioritized employee performance. As a consequence, a variety of performance assessment approaches have been developed throughout time to assist in determining an employee's performance. In modern times, the usage of performance assessments has expanded beyond judging an employee's performance to include variables such as motivation. As a result, attempted to explore the efficacy of performance rating methods and their impact on employee motivation. In the realm of performance management, performance evaluation is a frequently debated issue. The main Objectives of the study was to analyze the effect of Performance Appraisal on Employee Motivation and to identify the challenges in appraising employee’s performance. The study significantly used primary data. Some sources for secondary data were also browsed in order to deeply understand the phenomenon of performance appraisal as a basis for Job Satisfaction and Motivation to work. The primary data was collected as responses from a judgment sample of 200 respondents working in various IT industries using simple random sampling technique. The rationale for choosing the respondents was a minimum of a two year work experience in the same organization and being subjected to an annual Performance Appraisal. According to the result of the challenges, it is found that the role of the managers or superiors play main role in performance appraisal.