EMPLOYEE PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND ITS IMPACT ON ORGANIZATIONAL DEVELOPMENT (A STUDY OF FIRST BANK PLC., OWERRI)

ABSTRACT This study is on “The Effect of Employee Performance Appraisal and its impact Organizational Development”, using First bank Nigeria PLC as a study. The researcher adopted a cross section of description design which is part of the experiment research design. This is because the various element of the design are not under the researcher’s absolute control. The data for this study was carefully collected from both the primary and secondary source and questionnaire was administered to elicit response from the respondents, the chi-square statistical instrument was used to test the hypothesis. This is because the chi-square instrument is non-parametric test. After careful and thorough analysis, it was found that there are significant relationship between employee performance appraisal and organizational development. The study also recommends among others the method of appraisal system that suit the organization should be adopted, because this will motivate the employee to perform assigned duties more effectively. It was also recommended that employee performance appraisal be earned out regular to ascertain areas where training and development are needed in the enterprise. It was discovered that employee performance appraisal helps organizations to identify areas of strength and weakness in her manpower and appropriate checks and balance he put in place.