Impact and Treatment of the Evaluators’ Effect on Employees’ Performance Appraisal

Awoke Seyoum Tegegne

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Impact and Treatment of the Evaluators’ Effect on Employees’ Performance Appraisal

Awoke Seyoum Tegegne

Published in Science Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Volume 1, Issue 4)

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Putting a performance appraisal scheme is important to assess the gap between best performer and least performer employees. Employees who want to improve their work efficiency can then be rewarded, where as corrective action can be taken against those employees who don’t want to improve their performance. The objective of this study is to construct a technique that helps to evaluate the subjective effect that a given evaluator’s assessment will have a certain impact on the performance appraisal of a given employee, assuming that an assessment of one’s work performance will have to be undertaken by an evaluator and that this assessment is essentially a subjective one. For this study, a linear mixed modeling approach will be applied to show significant evaluator’s effect on a certain employees that needs to be properly accounted for when rewarding employees. With this adjustment being done, any incentive scheme, whether its motive is reward based or penalty fail in its intended purpose of improving employees’ overall performance.

Published in	Science Journal of Applied Mathematics and Statistics (Volume 1, Issue 4)
DOI	10.11648/j.sjams.20130104.11
Page(s)	30-37
Creative Commons	This is an Open Access article, distributed under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/), which permits unrestricted use, distribution and reproduction in any medium or format, provided the original work is properly cited.
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Keywords

Evaluators’ Effect, Performance Appraisal, Model Diagnostics, Mixed Model, Fixed Effect, Best Linear Unbiased Estimator

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Statistics department, College of Science, Bahir Dar University, Bahir Dar, Ethiopia

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