Performance Appraisal Process of Pharmaceutical Companies in Bangladesh: A Case Study on GlaxoSmithKline Bangladesh Limited

There is greater recognition that distinctive competencies are obtained through highly developed employee skills, distinctive organizational cultures, management processes and systems. To attain such recognitions HR plays a key role and one of the important aspects of HR process affiliated with the above objective is performance appraisal process. In this study an attempt has been made to understand the performance appraisal process of pharmaceutical companies in Bangladesh and GlaxoSmithKline (GSK) Bangladesh Ltd.; a subsidiary of GlaxoSmithKline plc. has been taken as a case study in this regard. The repercussion of this study reveals the performance appraisal process and eventually concludes with some implications for pharmaceutical companies of Bangladesh to make the present performance appraisal process more effective and objective oriented.