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