Employee's Attitude about the Annual Performance Evaluation of Faculties Affiliated to Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences in 2007, Iran

Performance evaluation is a systematic analysis of individual activity corresponding to their aims and duties. This research aimed to determine attitude about annual performance evaluation between employees in the Faculties affiliated to Ahvaz University of Medical Sciences.

In this Descriptive and cross-sectional study, we analyzed 150 personnel view that had been evaluated at least one time in their service duration by direct manager. Questionnaire including 55 questions were completed and census methods were used, too. Answers to questions about view based on Likert Scale. Data were analyzed by SPSS 11 software using analytic-descriptive tests.

54.7 percents of participants were women and others were men. 20.7 percent were among 31- 40, 50 percent among 31-40, 26.7 percent among 41-50 years old and 2.7 percent were upper than 50 year. Mean and Standard Deviation of age were 37.7±7.2. 66.32 percent of people admit that implementation of evaluation is essential, 17.35 percent had negative attitude and 16.33 percent had neutral attitude. Whereas 39.75 percent of people had negative attitude, 34.41 percent had positive attitude and 25.84 percent had neutral attitude about the method of current implementation of performance Evaluation. Significant difference (PValue=0.001, CI=95%) was found between attitude of current implementation of evaluation and necessity of implementation of appraisal using χ2 test.

Performance evaluation is a way to individual development of personnel, so having a bad view about appraisal can negatively affect the organization's outcome, therefore a change recommended to the current evaluation method of personnel.