Performance Report

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PREFACE

Chart a course for every endeavor that we take the people’s money for, see how well we are progressing, tell the public how we are doing, stop the things that don’t work, and never stop improving the things that we think are worth investing in.”

President William J. Clinton, on signing the
Government Performance and Results Act of 1993

Today when we talk about customer satisfaction and quality, we talk not only about the quality of products and services that totally satisfy customer needs and expectations in every respect on a continuous basis but we also talk about the quality of processes, information, people, systems and objectives. In short, quality is all encompassing is the way of life.

The greatest realization in the pursuit of quality is that all this can happen only if people have a shared vision for the company and are totally committed to giving their best. For people to cause change in technology and systems they need to demonstrate behavior, which fosters teamwork based on the values of self-discipline, patience, openness, respect and trust.

Till recently, performance appraisal was seen as a prerogative of the manager, who used to write a report about his subordinates. In fact, even today performance appraisal is known as a “Confidential report” in government parlance.

Times are changing. With the advent of liberalization, employees have much more employment opportunities and hence can be no more treated as commodities. Employees have a right to know how they are performing. They also have a right to conduct self-appraisal and discuss the same with their superiors. Performance management and appraisal is no more linked only to wage and salary revisions, or promotions, but concentrated more on identifying needs for employment development.

This project was taken up specifically to stress the need of planning, developing and implementing a performance management and appraisal system, wh...