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- To provide feedback to employees in terms of quality and quantity of job performance
without which employees have less knowledge of how well they are doing on the job and
how they might improve.
- Appraisals are important for making important personnel decisions e.g. transfers,
demotions, promotions, _discipline and separations. Because of their very sensitive
consequences these decisions must be made on adequate information.
- Appraisals form the basis of organizational reward systems particularly merits based
compensation plans.
- Appraisals suggest areas in which employees training and development are most needed.
If employee appraisals consistently point to problem areas programs can be developed to
remedy the situation.
- Performance appraisals can be a self-development indicator where individuals learn about
their strengths and weaknesses as seen by other people.
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