Abstract:
The purposes of this quantitative research were to examine and compare the level of opinions toward performance appraisal of civil servants working for National Research Council. The population of this study was 188 civil servants who worked for National Research Council. The data were collected by a questionnaire. A software program for statistical analysis, including percentage, means, standard deviation, t-test, and One-way ANOVA was administered to analyze the collected data. The results of the study revealed that the level of opinions toward performance appraisal of civil servants working for National Research Council was found at a high level. Specifically, the opinion in relation to the usefulness of performance appraisal was rated the highest, followed by the opinions relating to those civil servants receiving an appraisal, methods of appraisal, and evaluators, respectively. Also, based on the results from the comparisons, it was shown that no statistically significant differences were found in the level of opinions toward performance appraisal among the subjects with different gender, age, work position, and work length. There were statistically significant differences in the level of opinions toward performance appraisal among the subjects with different work rank at a significant level of 0.05. Finally, it was suggested that when conducting a performance appraisal, the administrators should appoint a group of appraisal committee who represented the civil servants from all work levels in order for those who were evaluated to feel confidence in the appraisal results that were not made subjectively by their supervisors.