A survey of parliamentary service commission employees' attitude towards promotion on merit supervisor

Abstract

The study reported here is a survey of Partiamentary Service Commission employees’ attitude towards promotion on merit. The study explored the opinions of employees towards the performance appraisal form, performance appraisal interview and their views on promotion on merit. It also sought to find out the factors that cause satisfaction and dissatisfaction with promotion on merit The study finally sought file employees’ recommendations on how to make promotion on merit more efficient and acceptable to employees. The need for the study arose out of the urge to develop a better understanding of the link between promotion and performance and to help managers to refine promotion policies already in existence by highlighting the adequacy or inadequacy of promotion policies. This was as a resufi of file need for all organizations to improve their productivity and file current trends in the market place where organizations are rightsizing wifi] a view of increasing the productivity of the fewer employees to surpass ihe total productivity of al employees before right sizing. The study was exploratory in nature as not much research has been conducted in the area. A sample survey of Parfiamentary Service Commission employees was earned out, data was Gofieded using a structured self reporting questionnaire, based on Lftert (1932) type of scale The quantitative data was coded and analyzed using the statistical package for soda! sciences (SPSS). The results were presented in frequency distribution tables, percentages and cross tabulations In conclusion, fire tinefings of the stiidy revealed that employees have negative attitude towards promotion on merit. This could be attributed to certain factors such as the weakness of performance appraisal to accurately capture performance inrficatots and measure Item, Ihe employees feeting that performance appraisal interview is not carried out fairly and impartialy and the faiure to M promotion to merit