This comprehensive report on the appraisal process is split into the following pages for your convenience:

• Introduction to performance appraisal systems
• Traditional performance appraisal systems
• Difficulties with traditional performance appraisal systems
• Recent performance appraisal developments and approaches
• The benefits and pitfalls of performance appraisal

Appraisal means different things to different people therefore there is no such thing as a definitive appraisal system. What this article does is to look at just a few aspects of appraisal in hope that together with our other articles it will provoke some thought.

In compiling it the researcher has used contributions from several sources but in the main is offering a personal view. Therefore the researcher does not pretend that it is complete and that the reader may have alternative views from those expressed here. What the researcher has attempted to do is to put forward an objective report which hopefully the reader will find both interesting and useful.

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