Effect of Performance Appraisal System on Employee Productivity;(Selected Public Senior High Schools, Ho Municipality, Ghana)

Performance appraisals improve the work performance of employees by helping them realize their full potentials in carrying out their firm's mission and also, to provide information to employees and managers for use in making work-related decisions. They, also, provide feedback to employees and thereby serve as a vehicle for personal and career development. Performance appraisals, however, are beset with difficulties as a result of their complex nature. The general objective of the study, therefore, was to evaluate the performance appraisal system and its effect on employee productivity (performance) at the Ghana Education Service (GES). The research design used in the study was the descriptive study because it was appropriate for the achievement of the research objectives. The population for the study was 153 and a sample size of 108 respondents was selected using the probability and non-probability sampling method. Interview and questionnaires were used as instruments for the study and out of 106 questionnaires distributed, all of them were retrieved from respondents and interview conducted for two respondents. The data was analyzed with tables, bar charts. Among the main findings of the study was that the GES only carried out performance appraisal when teachers were due for promotion. The finding indicated a negative relationship between performance appraisal and productivity of teachers. It means that performance appraisal has no link with the WASSCE results. The study recommends that the Ghana Education Service should adopt performance apprnaisal that is tailored to the job description and the job analysis, that is, there should be a clear cut policy on the conduct of performance appraisal in the GES in order to improve on its conduct. Keywords: High School, Productivity, Appraisal, Performance, Employee DOI: 10.7176/JESD/12-2-01 Publication date: January 31 st 2021