PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AND ITS IMPACT ON INTRINSIC FACTORS THAT INFLUENCE FACULTY MEMBERS MOTIVATION: A STUDY ON HIGHER EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTES OF ISLAMABAD AND RAWALPINDI IN PAKISTAN

Abstract

Organizational goals are achieved via the use of performance appraisal (PA), which is designed to enhance workers' contributions to the attainment of those objectives. However, unless a performance assessment system is seen to be equal, appraisers and appraises are unlikely to react positively to it. A surprisingly small amount of empirical research has been done on the relationship between faculty members' motivation and performance appraisal in higher educational institutions, despite recent research efforts into the experiences of organizational commitment, particularly in developing economies. The study is a survey with objective to establish the relationship between performance appraisal and its effect on intrinsic factors of employee’s motivation in Higher Educational Institutes of Pakistan. The study was conducted on higher educational institutes of Pakistan; however, sample will be collected from universities of twin cities. The study in hand is classified in to explanatory and quantitative. Primary source of data will be used to gather the data. A survey was conducted to distribute a questionnaire among all faculty members, collecting data from them and then data will be evaluated to find the results. To inspect the outcome of performance appraisal on employee’s motivation, Frequency, Percentage and Correlation method was utilized with SPSS tool. Results show that performance appraisal system has impact on Employee Motivation in Higher Educational Institutes and Intrinsic factors also has impact on motivation. Conclusion and recommendations are also discussed.