Human Resource Performance Appraisal: Ranking the Importance of Derived Information

The process of assessing the employee's job performance and productivity is providing useful feedback to the company's management, offering the possibility to further increase the overall performance of the firm. The paper aims to study and analyze the importance granted and subsequent use of information obtained from the human resource’ (HR) performance appraisal (PA) in a selected sample of firms, located in Maramure area, Romania (NUTS3 level – RO114). The interviewed managers rated above average the information provided by the PA process, more than half of the domains reaching scores greater than 5 (where 6 was the maximum possible score). Also, comparing the results we got in the surveyed area with a similar study performed in the United States, by Schuler and Huber, in 1993, we were able to notice that the Romanian managers are behaving quite similar with the ones from US. Concluding, an accurate identification of the organizational development needs is a current requirement for organizational performance, which explains why all domains under investigation were evaluated by surveyed managers as having above average importance.