EMPLOYEES PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL AS A FACTOR FOR RAISING ENTERPRISES COMPETITIVENESS

Abstract

Employees’ performance appraisal in enterprises is one of the most complicated stages in the process of performance management. That complexity arises from the fact that the employee’s evaluation refers to professional qualification and personal characteristics of individuals, their practical application in the work and the results achieved. The data that is obtained in terms of the quality and effectiveness of employees are the basis for decision-making, motivating, stimulating, rewarding. Employees’ performance appraisal is important for every individual person because, on the one hand it indicates the level achieved in terms of their work, and on the other hand it indicates errors, for which the individual is not aware, but with additional effort he can correct them.

In this paper is elaborated the question of employees performance appraisal as a factor for raising the competitiveness of enterprises. This paper recognizes the role and importance of the employees’ evaluation and the enterprises competitiveness. The sample in this paper consists of 53 successful small, medium and large enterprises from the private sector who perform an assessment of the performance of their employees. In this study, primary data were obtained using a structured questionnaire, and data analysis was performed using the statistical program SPSS (Statistical Program for Social Sciences).