Early approaches to Performance Appraisal

There have been two prevalent approaches to performance appraisal.

• The first performance appraisal approach has been primarily concerned with an employees past performance.
• The second approach to performance appraisal has been focussed on development. This performance appraisal approach viewed the employees as individuals and has been forward looking through the use of goal setting.

However both performance appraisal approaches are not without their difficulties. Which is why modern approaches to performance appraisal takes a much more strategic posture to link personal development with organisational development and continuous improvement measures. But more of this later.

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