Employees perception of the importance of performance appraisal in performance management at pan Africa Christian University
Abstract
The objective of this study was to investigate employee perception of the importance
of performance appraisal in performance management at Pan Africa Christian
University Kenya. The study adopted a descriptive survey of the Pan Africa Christian
University. The researcher collected primary qualitative data from employees of
PACU.The study used a census method of data collection. Whereby all the 62
permanent employees of PACU were sampled and the researcher managed to collect
data from all the 62 respondents. Data was analyzed using descriptive statistics
namely, frequencies, percentages, mean scores and standard deviations. The study
established that performance appraisal currently practiced at the University was barely
important. Usually it has always been done as an exercise which has no relevance or
bearing on an individual’s promotion or other functions of human resource such as;
reward management and human resource planning. At Pan Africa Christian
University, performance appraisal has remained as a normal practice though the study
established that usually, individual’s development decisions are usually appraisal
based. The study recommends that the whole process of appraising employees be
reviewed so as to make performance appraisal activity at Pan Africa Christian
University be of more importance to the employees. There would be no need of
developing an individual and yet his /her contribution that comes due to this
development is not rewarded nor be given more challenging responsibilities. Such
individual’s would end up feeling wasted and less motivated thus would end up
looking for greener pastures elsewhere