Performance Appraisal: A Human Resource Management Tool for Enhanced Performance in the Nigerian Civil Service

Abstract

This paper attempt to investigate and explain the complex nature of performance appraisal with particular reference to employees of the civil service. Experiences all over the world have shown that performance appraisal data can determine employees’ rewards and are also used as predictors in human resources planning, recruitment and selection process. It also explore how, performance management, appraisal has the potential to reverse past trends so that it is viewed less as a threat and a waste. Recommendation of the paper is that performance appraisal should be enhanced to a digital driven performance system that allow effective and efficient service delivery in the civil service.