Question

Assume you are the CEO of a company that employs a large number of industrial workers who are below graduate level and who possess technical job-specific skills. Your organisation is highly technology driven and requires everyone to perform well, keeping pace with the machine cycle time. Any below the standard performer can create a total mess in the assembly line production system, as the job remains in each work station for specific period of time. On the expiry of time schedule, job reaches to next workstation, even if it’s not fully completed in the earlier workstation. In the assembly line production system, we cannot back track a job as a result when the job travels through different work stations with incomplete workmanship, the end product fails to conforms to the requires quality and is rejected.

3.1 As CEO, you want to outline the objectives and reasons for adopting performance appraisal system in your organisation. Explain the main objectives of performance appraisals. (10)