PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL ANALYSIS OF EMPLOYEES IN TECHNICAL INSTITUTES: A CASE STUDY

Abstract

Employee's performance on job is periodically evaluated in all sectors, production/services, public or private. This is by and large is subjective in nature; mainly of qualitative type of man's performance evaluation. Performance Appraisal (PA) is rarely found in quantitative form. In academic institutes PA is practiced for their employees, teaching and non-teaching staff as well. However, faculty is the main actor/actress in the drama of academic theater, for a college can run in the absence of the Principal or Librarian, but it comes to a halt, if teacher is not present. Faculty's job is well defined/described with its associated nature of duties and responsibilities may be termed as faculty's Job Evaluation. Attempts are being made for evaluating the performance of a faculty (man) on the job. In this paper, a quantitative approach for faculty PA is proposed. This paper presents a PA case study based on self-appraisal of 410 faculty and 90 non-teaching staff. It provides interesting and useful guidelines for designing PA formats suitable to academic culture of institute. The results are shown to be encouraging. It is believed that the stakeholders will find the paper interesting.