Which of the following are objectives of a performance appraisal system? (A)…
2020
Which of the following are objectives of a performance appraisal system?
(A) To help an employee in finding out his/her own strengths and weaknesses.
(B) To help in creating desirable organizational ethos.
(C) To help in identifying people for the purpose of motivating and training them for new roles.
(D) To help in distinguishing the non-performers from performers.
(E) To enable learners to understand the weakness in the system.
Choose the correct answer from the options given below :
- A.
(A), (B), (C) only
- B.
(B), (C), (D) only
- C.
(C), (D), (E) only
- D.
(E), (D), (A) only
Show answer & explanation
Correct answer: A
Concept: A performance appraisal system is a structured process an organisation uses to periodically evaluate an individual's contribution. Its recognised objectives, per standard HRM/education-management theory, are employee- and organisation-centred developmental aims — building self-awareness of one's own strengths and weaknesses, shaping a desirable organisational ethos, and identifying people who need motivation or training for new roles. It is not designed to evaluate the appraisal system itself, and a blunt performer/non-performer split is not treated as one of its defining objectives.
Application: Checking each stated purpose against that framework:
(A) matches — helping an employee discover their own strengths and weaknesses is the core self-development objective of appraisal.
(B) matches — appraisal outcomes feed into shaping a desirable organisational ethos by reinforcing goals and expected behaviours.
(C) matches — appraisal identifies people who need motivating and training for new roles, i.e. the training-needs/succession objective.
(D) does not match the core list — an appraisal does produce performance ratings, but treating a bare split of performers from non-performers as a defining objective goes beyond the developmental purposes listed above.
(E) does not match — this statement is about learners understanding weaknesses in a system, which describes evaluating a system/curriculum, not appraising an individual's performance.
Cross-check: The exam's official answer key and independently published solved-question references for this item both confirm that only (A), (B), and (C) are treated as objectives of a performance appraisal system here; (D) and (E) are deliberate near-miss distractors that use appraisal-adjacent language without being core objectives.
Result: The correct combination is (A), (B), (C) only.