A Study on Employee Performance Appraisal System at Maini Scaffold Systems Pvt. Ltd.
Keywords:
performance appraisal, employee motivation, appraisal fairness, job satisfaction, manufacturing HRMAbstract
Performance appraisal influences the way a manufacturing company rewards effort, acknowledges effort and rewards
effort, and plan for employee development. This study involves the appraisal system of Maini Scaffold Systems Pvt.
Ltd., which is a manufacturing unit of SIDCUL in Rudrapur, Uttarakhand, in the industrial belt of SIDCUL. The aims
were to assess the awareness and satisfaction of employees with the appraisal system, and whether appraisal
satisfaction and perceived fairness were related to employee motivation. A descriptive design was adopted and the
primary data were collected by a five-point Likert scale questionnaire on 80 employees which were analysed by
percentage analysis and chi-square test. The two null hypotheses relating to satisfaction–motivation and fairness
satisfaction relationships were explored. Both null hypotheses were rejected as both the chi-square tests were
significant, indicating moderate awareness, a small majority of satisfaction, and a definite perception gap in fairness
and linkage to reward. The analysis relates these patterns to the reward transparency literature, and proposes moving
away from the traditional episodic feedback system towards a continuous, criteria-based feedback system. Fairness,
communication and career linkage are not being adequately achieved in the system. Redesign can make compliance
a true incentive.
