| dc.description.abstract | Performance management or appraisal is one of the areas an organization can use to unlock
the full potential of their people. Wendel (2003) defined performance appraisal and review
as a formal, systematic assessment of how well employees are performing their jobs in
relation to established standards and the dialogue about that assessment with employees
involved. The research‟s main purpose is to find out factors influencing the implementation
of teachers‟ performance appraisal system in public secondary schools. Specifically the
research will seek to identify the effects of performance standards on the implementation of
teachers performance appraisal system in public secondary schools; assess the importance of
monitoring on the implementation of teachers performance appraisal system in public
secondary schools; determine the consequence of appraisal techniques on the implementation
of teachers performance appraisal system in public secondary schools; assess the impact of
feedback on the implementation of teachers performance appraisal system in public
secondary schools. The research narrowed its undertakings into performance standards,
monitoring and appraisal techniques and feedback. The research applied a descriptive
research design and the target population was 89 teachers from Westlands Constituency. The
research applied the census sampling techniques where the entire population was considered
to constitute the sample size. Purposive sampling was used to select the key informants, Selfadministered
questionnaires were used as the major data collection instrument and they were
issued to all the respondents in the sample size, interview schedule was used to collect data
from the informants who were TSC officials. Validity of the research instrument was
ascertained by seeking the opinions of experts in the field of study. Descriptive statistics was
used to analyse the data. Quantitative data was sorted and corded using the Statistical
Package for Social Sciences (SPSS V. 21.0) software. Research analysis demonstrated the
collected data analysis and displayed the result of the study according to the research
questions. The study findings revealed that the study revealed that majority of the
respondents strongly agreed that performance appraisal was important to the teaching
fraternity others agreed, disagreed, while only a few of the respondents strongly disagreed to
the fact that performance appraisal was important for teachers, from the findings it was
revealed that performance was important to the teaching fraternity, majority of the
respondents strongly agreed that continuous performance monitoring did affect the
performance appraisals; the findings therefore revealed that continuous performance
monitoring affects greatly performance appraisals among the teaching fraternity, the findings
reveals that the understanding of the appraisal techniques across the teaching staff varies
considerably as shown by the findings, a good number of the staff understand and appreciates
the application of the techniques while others are not well aware of the techniques
equivalently, feedback influence teachers performance appraisals as reported by the majority
of the respondents, the study concludes that performance is an important element to the
teaching fraternity, further the study concludes that quality standards, planning and Job
Analysis influenced greatly on the performance of teachers, the study further concludes that
that performance standards are high among the teachers, continuous performance monitoring
affects greatly performance appraisals among the teaching fraternity, further the study
concludes that Gantts Charts, PERTs, CPM, overall schedules, resource allocations and weak
breakdown structures have often been used as planning function tools in the teacher
performance appraisal systems. The recommends that there is need for enhanced performance
planning, better performance monitoring during the year and ongoing feedback during the
year should be given an in depth consideration. | en_US |
