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Assessing and Appraising People

An assessment is an information gathering exercise, from one or many sources, to evaluate a person's ability to do a job. An appraisal is a 'superset' of recording opinions and setting and achieving objectives, plans, and so on.

Assessing and appraising your enterprise's employees are key areas of human resources management. To ensure you have the right people in place at the right time, you'll want to find out what competencies your employees (applicants, and so on) possess, and at what level they demonstrate them. This provides a snapshot that allows study, analysis, and evaluation,

By tightly integrating assessment and appraisal with the performance management process, both individual and enterprise performance are strengthened. You'll find that your employees are more willing to change their behaviors as they feel committed to, and understand how their efforts make an impact on the big picture. So, using Oracle Human Resources, assessment and performance appraisal produces informed, motivated employees, committed to improving the effectiveness of their performance--in short, improving their productivity.

See Also

Competence-Based Assessments

Appraisals


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