Investigation of Performance on Forest Products Industry with Performance Appraisal System
Abstract
Abstract
Aim of study: The purpose of this study is to determine whether there is or not a difference depending on the demographic characteristics of the participants and in the sub sectors level of performance appraisal practices with productivity and motivational effects of the performance appraisal systems applied in the businesses. The study was applied to 432 people that work in 14 businesses operating in forest products industry (furniture, panel products, paper and paper products) throughout Turkey.
Material and Methods: For this purpose, the questionnaire prepared was administered to employees in businesses with face to face interviews. The collected questionnaires were entered to SPSS (Statistical Package for the Social Sciences) and tested by descriptive statistics, factor analysis and analysis of variance.
Main results: When the results were analyzed, it was seen that performance appraisal practices may be divided into six factors (performance appraisal’s aim, criteria, interviews, applications, productivity impact and motivational impact). It was also determined that the performance appraisal system sub-sectors do not show a difference in terms of sub-factors of the forest products industry. In addition, according to the results of variance analysis carried out based on demographics characteristics, it was not observed a significant difference in terms of age groups, while significant differences were identified at the level of performance appraisal sub-factors in terms of education status, gender, marital status, position and total operating time.
Research highlights: Performance appraisal studies are very important for businesses since they include indicators of employee productivity.
Keywords
Factor analysis,Forest products industry,Performance appraisal,Analysis of variance
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