Performance Appraisal

Order Description
In this Assignment, you will examine a performance appraisal process, following the guidelines below:
• Provide an overview of performance appraisal instruments, identifying three specific types of performance appraisal instruments.
• Evaluate any three components of a performance appraisal instrument that you believe are essential parts of every instrument. For the appraisal instrument you identified, which components are necessary for employee motivation and why? Based on the components you have selected, in what ways might each need to be adjusted to effectively motivate and satisfy a high-quality, diverse workforce in today’s global economy?
• What are some of the differences, attitudes, behaviors, and perceptions that employees have toward appraisals? Identify three positive examples of approaches toward conducting appraisals that can be used as best practices.
Be specific and provide examples with references to the literature provided this week.

Book: Aguinis, H. (2013). Performance management (3rd ed.). Upper Saddle River, NJ: Prentice Hall.
Chapter: 6

Use the Internet to research performance appraisal fairness and denial of employment opportunities based on gender and disability. Explore the major issues inherent within the performance appraisal process that may lead to any type of discrimination within an organization based on two (2) of the following: gender, disability, or denial of employment opportunity. Support your response with two (2) relevant recent cases, and explain the outcome of the case.

Use the Internet to research privacy protection for email and Internet communication. Examine workplace privacy as it relates to emails and Internet communication. Suggest two (2) recommendations that an organization should make to its employees geared toward protecting the privacy of the organization when employees use emails and communicate via the Internet.