Studying the Performance Appraisal Practices of Public Sector Organizations, an analytical Case of MEPCO

Heena Ayaz

Abstract


The research study discusses about the impacts of performance appraisal practices in Public sector organizations which focus on the performance of employees. The organization of the study was MEPCO and research particularly focuses on the selected branch within Bahawalpur, County in Pakistan. In the study, relationship among the PAS and OC, organizational justice, job satisfaction, employee performance and organizational performance was studied with the mediating effect of motivation. The population of an organization was 2500 and the sample size of the study was 344. Questionnaires survey was used as a tool to collect the information from the employees of MEPCO. SPSS software was used for the analysing of data. The findings of the research study explain that the PAS have the significant connection with organizational commitment, job satisfaction and employee performance. This significant relationship have the positive mediating effect of motivation on that variables .But the study also showed that performance appraisal system with mediating impact of motivation has negative relationship with an organizational justice and organizational performance.


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performance appraisal system, public sector organization, organizational commitment

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