What is a performance appraisal? Performance evaluation, performance review and employee appraisal are other terms for performance appraisal. Every organization must understand its employees' capacities to perform and improve, and performance appraisal serves as a tool for assessing employee growth potential. It is a systematic assessment of the works performed by employees. Performance appraisal creates a mechanism for frequently assessing work knowledge, work performance, work attitude, leadership quality, team player behavior, consistency, decision-making abilities, and skills, and then compares actual performance and personality of employees to the organization's expected standard. Examining appraisals is one approach to boost productivity and effectiveness in a leading organization. Performance appraisals aid in the identification of low-performing areas and the discussion of various options (Spinks et al., 1999). ...