Abstract:
Employee job satisfaction is one of the critical factors in an
organization that allows gaining a competitive advantage in the long
run. The reason is, the satisfied employee will be the motivated and the
engaged employee who will add productivity to the business process. If
the management can ensure that employees are satisfied they can push
the employees to be engaged and add value to the organization. In the
ABC Motor Company Ltd, they have implemented a Computerized
Performance Appraisal system recently with the intention of enhancing
the organizational performance. But, informal discussions with them
provided evidence that the employees have issues with the new change
in the status quo. Therefore, the purpose of the study is to identify the relationship between Performance Appraisal process and the job
satisfaction among the executives in the ABC Motor Company Ltd.
Sixty executives in the company have been selected as the target
population and the data were collected from them and directed them
for analysis. Within the scope of this study, Performance Appraisal
process and factors that lead to job satisfaction have been discussed in
the review of the literature. The study analyses the five major factors
related to Performance Appraisal process that triggers the employee
job satisfaction as performance standards setting/goal setting, regular
feedback, and coaching, supervisory support, computerizing the
performance appraisal process and the planning personal development
and expected to identify the significance of each factor towards the
employee job satisfaction.
