EFFECT OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SYSTEM ON ORGANIZATIONAL COMMITMENT AND EMPLOYEE PRODUCTIVITY AND ITS LINKAGE TO PERIODICAL PERFORMANCE REVIEW : A STUDY OF TEHRI HYDRO POWER PROJECT

Abstract

Performance is the utmost important factor for survival and sustenance of an organization. Therefore, managing and measuring performance is a big task and challenge for any organization. Performance Appraisal System in due course of time has become an important process from the perspective of business alignment. Performance appraisal is generally construed to be a formal, structured system of measuring and evaluating an
employee’s job related behaviours and outcomes as well as to discover how and why
the employee is presently working on the work and the way the worker can perform
more effectively in the future. Performance appraisal system is important to any
organizational work performance; it determines the organization’s success or failure.

The focus of this paper is on summarizing the conceptual framework of performance appraisal system and its relationship between Organization Commitment, employees behavior, engagement and thus with Productivity.. The research study has been conducted to study and determine the effect of performance appraisal on organizational commitment and employee productivity in generating unit Tehri HPP of Tehri Hydro Development Corporation (THDCIL).