Self Performance Appraisal and its Effectiveness in Performance Management: An Empirical Study in Saudi Arabia

A self assessment is an employee’s narrative description of accomplishments related to the job objectives and associated contributing factors identified on the employee’s performance plan. In short this is basically filling out one’s own performance review. Designing and implementing appraisal in the organization is to improve the performance among the employees. The self performance appraisal is essential to understand and improve the employee’s performance through human resource development. The study aims to find out whether self performance appraisal helps an employee who works in various industrial sectors. The purpose of the paper is to reveal the truth about the effectiveness of the self performance appraisal. The result indicates that Self-Appraisals offer numerous benefits to the appraisal process including greater perceived accuracy, fairness and improved understanding of the demands and expectations of the employees as well as the organizations. One way ANOVA analysis was carried out with the help of SPSS software and to calculate and assess the significance of mean difference of all the factor of self performance appraisal outcome among different level of experience and education of respondents.