The document discusses performance appraisals and assessment centers. It defines a performance appraisal as a regular review of an employee's job performance and contributions. An assessment center is a technique used to measure a person's knowledge, skills, and abilities through exercises like in-basket tests, interviews, role plays and group discussions. Assessment centers are used for selection, identifying potential and talent, and determining training needs. While they provide expert evaluation of behaviors, assessment centers can be expensive and time consuming.

1. Performance Appraisal
Assessment Centre
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2. The term performance appraisal refers to the
regular review of an employee's job performance
and overall contribution to a company. Also
known as an annual review, performance review
or evaluation, or employee appraisal, a
performance appraisal evaluates an employee's
skills, achievements, and growth, or lack thereof.

3. What is Assessment Centre?
Technique used in organizations to measure the knowledge, skills& abilities of
a person. A traditional assessment Centre involves six participants and lasts
from one to three days. The participants are evaluated by trained experts by
various methods.

4. Assessment Centre - History

5. Assessment Centre Methods
• In Basket Exercise
• Competency Based Interview
• Case Study
• Role Play
• Group Discussion
• Presentation

6. In Basket Exercise
• An in-basket test or an in-basket exercise is a test used by companies or
governments in hiring and promoting employees. During the test, job
applicants receive a number of mails, telephone calls, documents and
memos.

9. Example - method
Position - HR
Situation where they have to deal with employee who
just lost his job and wants to legal actions against the
company
Can be case study or discussion

10. Use of Assessment Centre
• Selection
• Career path
• Identify the potential
• Identification of talent
• Training and development needs
• Development of candidate

11. On Time Assessment Centre
• candidates are given the exact amount
of time to complete the exercises.
• experts will assess each particular
exercise.
• The competencies will perform the
exercise as soon as they finish the
experts will direct them to the next
exercise.

12. After the Assessment Centre
•start assessing
•examination results

15. Advantages of Assessment Centres
• Right person- Right post
• Clear picture of candidate strength and weakness
• Expert judgment
• Behavior of candidate
• Fair process

16. Disadvantages of Assessment Centres
• Expensive
• Time consuming
• Evaluators may be biased
• IT is necessary skill

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