Abstract:
Background: Performance appraisal is an important management tool for measuring employee
job performance, clarifying personnel decisions such as promotion, demotion, or retention, as well
as helping develop employee capacity through providing feedback or training, a positive
perception of employees towards performance appraisal will create a positive working
environment in the organization, while a negative perception of employees will affect the health
facility performance.
Objective: The objective of the study was to assess perception of employees towards performance
appraisal practice and associated factors at Mekelle governmental health institutions, Tigray,
Ethiopia.
Methods: Institutional based cross-sectional study design was used and data was collected through
self-administered questionnaire distributed to a sample of 252 employees of Mekelle governmental
health facilities, Tigray, Ethiopia, 2018. Simple random sampling technique has been employed to
select the respondents, among these 244 were returned, which, representing 96.8% response rate.
Data was analyzed using statistical package for social science (SPSS version 25) linear regression
analysis were employed to analyze the data.
Result: The descriptive finding of the study shows that the general employees had bad perception
towards the existing performance appraisal practice. Whereas the findings of linear regression
analysis indicate that there is positive and significant relationship between employee’s perception
with feedback (Adjusted R2= 0.335, ß = 56.9, P<.001.), Perception of employees and participation
of employees (Adjusted R2= 0.093, ß = 0.310, P<.001), Negative and significant relation between
perception of employee’s and criteria used for evaluation appropriateness (Adjusted R2= 0.031, ß
= -0.212, P<.005).
Conclusion and recommendation: On the basis of the findings, appropriate recommendations
laterally needs an amendment of the existing performance appraisal methods, training should be
given to rater and ratee on the purposes as well as how criteria used for evaluate and participation
of employee’s in formulation and design of form used to evaluating their performance.
