Abstract:
All the countries around the world are a part of the global marketplace and most of the businesses
mainly depend on the human resources with specific knowledge, skill and abilities. At this juncture, the
performance evaluation comes to the business scenarios to identify the performance gap. On other hand, there is
no point of considering the employees’ level of competent, if they are not satisfied with their job. Here, the job
satisfaction link with performance evaluation. Hence, this study purposively done to find out the effect of
performance evaluation mechanism on job satisfaction of production associates in manufacturing company. Effect
of four selected dimensions of performance evaluation system on job satisfaction was examined.
Data were collected by distributing questionnaires among 180 production associates at Zone A of the
manufacturing company. And also, qualitative information was gathered from an interview with the HR manager.
İt was used the mixed methodology which is a combination of qualitative and quantitative to get greater and
comprehensive insight about the research problem. Collected data were analyzed through SPSS by using
correlation and regression analysis. The final results of this study indicate that, the performance evaluation
mechanism practicing at the manufacturing company makes a significantly positive effect on the job satisfaction
of the production associates. Finally, recommendation was made that the company should practice an employee
friendly and practical performance evaluation
