Does performance appraisal affect employees' engagement?
Iakovidou, Despoina
T he Business Project was a prerequisite of the Executive MBA program of International Hellenic University. It was indispensable for the completion of the course and was the last part of the schedule . This dissertation is exactly this last part that the program demanded . My dissertation addresses the question of the existence of an effect of performance appraisal on employees’ engagement. There have been various studies, which argued that the demands a job might have, but also the resources it may use or offer, affect employees’ engagement, while satisfaction or not with appraisal affects their reactions. My research tries to find the relationship between the value an employee feels in the organization, whether this is acquainted through the appraisal procedure or not and the engagement as a result of the appraisal. A statistical analysis provides the results of the responds to the questionnaire processing. The results , presented in the “Interpretation of findings ” chapter , find two different correlations, not b etween the two a forementioned concepts, but between value and supervisor at first and work engagement and fair working conditions in the second place. This chapter clarifies this correlation. This work would not have been possible if the cooperation and c ommunication between Professor Antonacopoulou and me was not constant and efficient. I appreciate her effort to provide me with her knowledge and valuable feedback and I would like to thank her for her support during the whole procedure . I am really grat eful for the support I had from my family and my friends, during this effort and I would like to give special gratitude to the course Office of the University for always being so polite and helpful. Finally I would like to thank my employer, the Nationa l Bank of Greece, for offering to me this great opportunity to live a great experience, throughout the studies, and to attain an MBA de
