Evaluation of Performance Management Gap in the Case of Ministry of Power The Impact of Performance Management System on Employees Productivity

Abstract

Over the years Performance Appraisal system was the major tool for managing performances in many organizations and the Ministry of Power (Ghana) was not an exception to that. However, due to its notable challenges, organizations sought after new ways to improve upon the system to help attain the vision, mission and goals of their organizations. Performance Management System is a new system of managing employees performance in our business world of corporate organizations, as a result, lots of scholars have researched into the topic to unravel the best ways organizations can effectively manage performance in order to achieve the speculated results. This study dwelt on the analysis and exploration of the impact of Performance Management System on employee performance. It sought to compare the Ministrys past performance practices to this new system to ascertain the differences and identify lapses that caused failure to the old (Appraisal) system. As a result, inductive research approach was used by conducting a survey at the Ministry. The aim was to find out the gaps that pertained in the old Performance Appraisal System, the potential gaps in the new Performance Management System and also to predict the future performance of the new system based on findings. Moreover, Policy recommendations were proposed after the following findings were deduced from the data and gap analysis. A critical examination and analysis of the comparison drawn between the old system, the new system and prediction made about the future state of the new system provided clear results that consistently showed huge gaps in the old Performance Appraisal System. Nonetheless, the Performance Management System was also found to have few gaps that could be bridged when the proposed recommendations provided are enforced to secure its future sustainability. The research was closed up with a summary of analysis made in respect of the attainment of the research objectives which proved to be realized at the end. Also, the outcomes of the research disclosed new areas that could be studied to improve the Performance Management System and as such, research questions were introduced to guide further studies on the topic respectively.