Performance Appraisal System: A Case Study of Southern Railway

Contents: 1. Performance appraisal system. 2. Types of performance appraisal. 3. Procedures in performance appraisal. 4. Indian railways. 5. Existing performance appraisal system in railways. 6. SWOT for confidential report writing system (need and justification of the research). 7. An analysis on the views of existing performance appraisal system. 8. Analysis on the awareness of confidential report writing. 9. Test of mediation of the confidential report writing system using structural equation modelling (SEM). 10. Proposed all round performance appraisal format. 11. SWOT for the proposed all round performance appraisal system. 12. A comparative analysis of the confidential report and the proposed all round appraisal system. 13. Performance linked reward system (PLRS). 14. Findings, problems and suggestions.

Performance Appraisal is a formal, structured system of measuring and evaluating an employee’s job related behaviour and outcome to discover the employee's present performance, the factors responsible for the performance, scope for improvement of performance and benefit for the organisation, employee and the society. This book aims to find the lacunae in the existing Performance Appraisal System followed in the Railways. Since the Railways is one of the major employers in the country, a new relevant appraisal system is inevitable for not just the employment opportunities it provides but also for the returns on the investment done.