Performance Appraisal in the Period of New Normal | Original Article

ABSTRACT:

ABSTRACT

Performance Appraisal is the procedure of evaluating the attainments of manpower and to appreciate their abilities for promoting development. Performance assessment is one of the fields in human resource management which is significantly hampered by the outspread of pandemic serious acute respiratory syndrome corona virus 2. This virus outburst gave rise to new provocations for the organizations around the world. Subsequently, in order to handle this unpredictability several companies have taken steps to cut down the costs like adjournment in the appraisal cycle or for deaden salary increments. Hence, one of the purposes of this paper is to examine the effect of Covid -19 on performance appraisal of workers. Additionally, this pandemic is fairly demanding for the managers also. As social distancing and operating remotely have become a new normal, employees work remotely from each other and from managers, and this will be more usual in the hereafter future. Managers are now observant for new methods to ‘do visibility’ without all the time being substantially present. It has also become the essential demand of the circumstances as managers must be conscious of the situations in which workers are operating in. On that account, another purpose of this paper is to propose an approach to supervise the performance assessments of remote working employees. It is commended that managers should take on the choice-based approach for performance assessment rather than control-based approach. The review is constructed on articles and reports from several internet sources and journals. Additionally, some methods of carrying on the performance assessment of remotely working employees and scope for the future are also considered and talked about.