I what are the limitation of performance appraisal ii

Q. i) what are the limitation of performance appraisal?
ii) How can performance appraisal be made successful and effective?
4.6
CAREER DEVELOPMENT
4.6.1 OBJECTIVES
The main purpose for this topic is to help you be more effect at managing your employees’
careers. We will look at the roles of employees, managers and employers in career development
and the procedures for managing promotions and transfers. We will also look at the career
management steps an employer can take to foster employee commitment.
4.6.2 INTRODUCTION
Employers have a significant impact on employee’s careers through their effects on Human
Resource process. Recruiting, placing, training, appraising, rewarding, promoting and separating
the employee all affect the person’s career, and therefore career satisfaction and success. Career
can be defined as the occupational positions a person has had over many years. Career
management can also be defined as a process of enabling employees to better understand and
develop their career skills and interests and to use these skills and interests more effectively both
within the company and after they leave the firm. Career planning is the deliberate process
through which someone becomes aware of personal skills, interests, knowledge, motivations, and
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other characteristics; acquires information about opportunities and choices; identifies career-
related goals; and establishes action plans to attain specific goals.
4.6.3 CAREER DEVELOPMENT
Career development is the life long series of activities that contribute to a person’s career
exploration, establishment, success and fulfillment. Career development programs tend to have a
new focus today. Today, the reality for most people is that they will have to change employers
and perhaps careers, several times during their work life. This was not the case before corporate
career development programs used to focus on employee’s future with that particular firm.
Providing employees with the career planning tools they need benefits all concerned. It gives the
employee the perspective he or she needs to understand his or her career options, and what he or
she can do to pursue the most attractive ones.
For the employer, the career development partnership serves several functions. Employers
provide the tools, environment, and skill development opportunities for employees, and then
employees are better equipped to serve the company and build it to its potential. Career
development may also cultivate employee commitment. The most attractive proposition an
employer can make today is that in five years the employee will have more knowledge and be
more employable than now.
4.6.4 ROLES IN CAREER DEVELOPMENT
The employee, the manager and the employer all play roles in planning, guiding, and developing
the employees’ career. Below is a summary of the different roles played by employee, manager
and employer. However, the employee must always accept full responsibility for his or her own
career development and career success. This is one task that no employee should ever leave to a
manager of employer.