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Performance AppraisalApplicable to Nursing
Administration Bivin Jose
Department of Psychiatric NursingMB CN, Kothamangalam
Introduction • An important function of the managerial
staffing• Performance appraisal (PA)= staff
evaluation• It was first used during the first world war• History roots in the 20th century• It is the process of determining how the
nurse employees are performing/degrees of performance standards
Definitions
Continues…
Objectives of PA1. To determine job competence2. To select qualified individuals for promotion or
transfer3. To establish and improve– Communication between supervisors and
subordinates– Staff performance
4. To determine – Training and developmental needs of staff– Salary standards and to award merit
Continues… 5. To discover the aspirations and talents of
staff6. To check the efficacy of staff development
programmes7. To identify unsatisfactory staff for demotion
or termination8. To aid the manager in coaching and
counselling9. To provide feedback to enhance staff
development and motivate personnel towards heights of achievement
Continues.. 10.To identify and remove distracters,
dissatisfies and obstacles as well as ineffective behaviours
11.To identify areas of growth for employees and organizations
12.To serve as a check on hiring and recruiting practices and as validation of employment tests
13.To provide the staff with recognition for achievement
Main Purposes of PE• Individual Rewards (Base and Incentive)• Feedback for Sub-Ordinate (Plus and
Minus)• Recognition of Superior Performance• Documentation of Weak Performance• Personnel Decision-Making• Future Goal Commitments (Planned
Achievements)
Reasons for /importance of PA
• Compensation "Pay for Performance"• Job Performance Improvements• Feedback to Subordinates• Documentation for Decisions• Goal Setting - Later Evaluation• Promotion Decisions• Identify Training Needs• HR Planning
Principles of PA (General)
• Objectives & results of appraisal should be identified/known to all parties
• The appraisal process & tools are developed with input from all levels of employees affected by job responsibilities
• The supervisor has received education & training in the use of appraisal process & tool
• The appraisal process is valued by organization
• The appraisal process occurs consistently
Principles of PA (Nursing)
• Assess performance in relation to behaviourally stated work goals.
• Observe a representative sample of employees’ total work activities.
• Compare supervisor’s evaluation with employee’s self-evaluation
Continues… • Cite specific examples of satisfactory
and unsatisfactory performance• Indicate which job areas have highest
priority for improvements• Purpose of evaluation is to improve work
performance and job satisfaction • Evaluation interview should be
scheduled in proper time & environment
Who Performs the Appraisal?
• Immediate Supervisor• Higher Management• Self-Appraisals• Peers (Co-Workers)• Evaluation Teams• Customers• “360° Appraisals”
The 360º Appraisal Interview
Individual Staff
Self-Assessment
Supervisor
Other Superiors
Peers
Teams
Sub-Ordinates
Teams
Customers
Other Superiors
Characteristics of a good PA
• Based on the philosophy, purpose and objectives of the organisation
• Job description are written in such a manner that standards of job performance can be identified for each job
• The appraisal tool used is suited to the purposes for which it will be utilized and is accompanied by clear instructions for its use
Continues…• Evaluators are trained
in the use of tool • Plans for policing the
appraisal has the full support of top management
• Performance appraisal is considered to be fair and productive by all who participate in it
A good PA is…• Supported by the Administrative setup• Related to job description• stated the criteria of evaluation clearly • Applies procedures of appraisal
consistently• Performed by the person who is
trained/experienced with
Process of PA
Areas of appraisal• Performance quality: Quantity and
quality of work, neatness, orderliness, reliability, accuracy, knowledge of work execution etc..
• Mental abilities: The ability to learn, adaptability, reasoning power, judgement, memory etc
• Supervisory qualities: leadership and organizational ability, communication skill, cooperation etc.
Continues..• Personal qualities: honesty, self-
control, self-confidence, initiative, attitude towards others, team work, appearance etc...
• Capacity for further development: Intelligence, acceptance of responsibility and other features, inherent in leadership.
Tools & Techniques of Performance Appraisal
Narrative/Essay technique
• Free form review• Writes a paragraph outlining an
employee’s strengths, weaknesses, and potential.
• Write a Behavioral Statement• Strengths versus Weaknesses
• Describe Selected Traits• Evaluate Performance
Advantages & Disadvantages
• Provide an in-depth review of an employee’s performance
• Identify problem areas and areas on which to focus on further development
• Time consuming• Length and content
vary• Depends on
evaluator’s ability to write
• Narrative evaluations are difficult to compare
Rating scale• Set of behaviours or characteristics to
be rated on a scale of measurement• Types: Numerical rating scale, lettered
rating scale, graphic rating scale, descriptive graphic rating scale
• Trait rating scales: Rating a person against a set standard, which may be the job description, desired behaviours or personal traits
Job dimension scale
• Rating scale for each job classification
• Rating factors are taken from context of written job description
• Mainly focus on job requirements
Behaviorally Anchored Rating Scale (BARS)
• A behavioral approach to performance appraisal
• Consists of a series of vertical scales, one for each important dimension of job performance.
Advantages & Disadvantages
• Reduce the amount of personal judgement needed by the rater
• Focuses on specific behaviours and allows employees to know exactly what is expected of them
• Reduces rating error• Many scales can be
purchased
• Time consuming and expensive
• Applicable only to physically observable skills not to conceptual skills
• Separate BARS are needed for each job
Example of BARS
Graphic Rating-Scale Method
• Performance appraisal whereby each employee is rated according to a scale of pre-defined characteristics that are job performance related
Behavior observation scales
• It also uses critical incidents of worker behaviour.
• Evaluator lists a number of critical incidents for each performance dimension and rates the extend to which the behaviour has been observed
• A five point scale ranging from “almost never” to “almost always” used.
Forced-Choice Method• A trait approach to performance
appraisal• Requires the rater to choose from
statements designed to distinguish between successful and unsuccessful performance
Checklists
• A series of descriptive statement in behavioural terms about the standard of nursing performance of the job expected of the individual nurse
• Supervisor has to check individual’s behaviour against a set criteria
Simple checklist• Composed of numerous words or
phrases describing various employee behaviours or traits.
• These descriptions are often clustered to represent different aspects of one dimension of behaviour such as assertiveness or inter personal skills.
• The rater is asked to check all those that describe the employee on each checklist.
Supervisor Appraisal• Performance
appraisal done by an employee’s manager and often reviewed by a manager one level higher.
Self-Appraisal
• Performance appraisal done by the employee being evaluated, generally on an appraisal form completed by the employee prior to the performance review.
Advantages & Disadvantages
• Promotes dignity and self respect
• Introspection and self awareness result in growth of person
• Employees look forward to their annual performance review in an anticipation of positive feedback
• Promotes acceptance of plans for improvement
• May rate self low to prevent disagreement with the boss
• May evaluate self high to influence the manager
• May undervalue own achievements
• May feel uncomfortable giving self high ratings
• Even mature personnel require external feedback and performance validation
Subordinate Appraisal
• Performance appraisal of a superior by an employee, which is more appropriate for developmental than for administrative purposes
Peer Appraisal• Performance appraisal done by one’s
fellow employees, generally on forms that are complied into a single profile for use in the performance interview conducted by the employee’s manager
Team Appraisal• Performance appraisal, based on
TQM concepts, that recognizes team accomplishment rather than individual performance.
Field review method• Allows the ratings of several
supervisors to be completed for the same employee
• A small group of raters is identified for each supervisory unit and each rates an employee
• A member of the administrative staff then meets with the raters and identifies areas of agreement
Critical incident technique
• Supervisor observe, collect and record specific instances of the employee carrying out responsibilities critical to the job.
• These observations are used to prepare the evaluation.
• Usually associated to healthcare related performance appraisal
Management by Objectives(Peter Drucker)
• Integrates performance and goal setting
• Frequent intervals• Record maintenance• Objective review jointly• Mutual buy-in
Advantages of MBO• Employees Can Measure
Performance• Quantifiable Goals• Joint Effort• Employee Satisfaction in
Participation
Disadvantages of MBO• Success Not Validates by Research
Studies• Easy to Set Unrealistic Goals• Hard to Get Full Commitment to
Process• Difficult to Define Some Goals
Appraisal Interviews• Schedule the interview 10 to 14 days in
advance.• Provide subordinates with a “guide” to
follow in planning for the interview.• Consider which of the following
approaches to use:– Tell-and-sell method– Tell-and-listen method– Problem-solving method (generally
preferable)
Tell-and-Sell Interviews• Supervisor persuades employee to
change in a prescribed way.• Employees sees how changed
behavior will be of great benefit
Tell-and-Listen Interviews
• Supervisor covers strengths/weaknesses for first half
• Solicits employee’s feelings about comments
• Deal with disagreement, non-defensively
• Negotiate future concrete objectives
The Problem Solving Interview
• Discuss strengths &weaknesses since last review
• Explore feelings of sub-ordinate• Listening, accepting &responding are essential• Stimulate growth (performance) job• Discuss problems, needs, innovations,
satisfactions & dissatisfactions since last review
• Listen & respond with goal of helping person & productivity.
Problems in Performance Appraisal
General Errors in PA• Popularity Contest• Punitive Implications• Control Relinquishment• Stereotypes• Poor Training of Raters
Rating Errors Issues• Error of Central Tendency– Performance-rating error in which all
employees are rated about average• Leniency or Strictness Error– Performance-rating error in which the
appraiser tends to give employees either unusually high or unusually low ratings
Continues.. • Recency Error–Performance-rating error in which
the appraisal is based largely on the employee’s most recent behavior rather than on behavior throughout the appraisal period.
Continues.. • Similar-To-Me Error–Performance-rating error in which
an appraiser inflates the evaluation of an employee because of a mutual personal connection.
Obstacles to effective PA• Lack of support from the management• Evaluate biases and rating errors ,which
result in unreliable and invalid ratings• Lack of clear & objective standards of
performance• Failure to communicate purposes and
result of performance appraisal to employees
• Lack of suitable appraisal tool• Failure to practice the appraisal
procedure effectively
Continues.. • Resistance on the part of evaluators
because;–Demands too much of supervisors’ effort
in terms of time, paper work & periodic observation of subordinates performance– Supervisors are reluctant to play God by
judging others– Purpose & procedures of performance
appraisal is not known– Lack skill in appraisal techniques
Overcoming these obstacles
• Appraisal should be based on standards• Employee must know the standards in
advance• Employee must know the sources of
data gathered for appraisal• Employee should have input in to
development of standards• Appraiser should be someone who has
observed employees work• Appraiser should be someone who the
employ trust and respects
References 1. Jogindra Vati (2013). Principles & practice of
nursing management and administration, I ed., New Delhi, Jaypee Brothers Medical publishes (P) Ltd. Chapter 42
2. Sullivan EJ & Decker JP (2010). Effective leadership & management in nursing 6th ed., Newjersy, Pearson Prentice Hall. 278-284
3. Deepak K, Chandran S & Kumar M (2013), A comprehensive textbook on nursing management, I ed., Bangalore, Emmess Medical Publishers. 473-489