Title: Justice in performance appraisal

Authors: Frøydis Vasset; Marianne Vinje

Addresses: Institute for Medicine and Health Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Larsgaardsvegen 2, 6025 Aalesund, Norway ' Institute for Medicine and Health Science, Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU), Larsgaardsvegen 2, 6025 Aalesund, Norway

Abstract: Performance appraisal serve different functions within a university. It helps to identify and evaluate the performance of individual faculty members. The purpose is to explore justices, that is satisfaction with, professional learning from and work motivation generated by performance appraisals. A quantitative research study with a survey in four universities in the west of Norway, 103 employees answered the questionnaire. Employees in universities are satisfied with and experience fair performance appraisal. They experience professional learning from fair performance appraisal, but not work motivation by fair performance appraisal. We found a weak correlation in the group of professors/researchers and administrative staff. There is a significant relationship between procedural justice and satisfaction with the performance appraisal system, and between procedural justice and professional learning. There is no significant relationship between procedural justice and work motivation generated by the performance appraisal system, only small significant relationship for managers and professors.

Keywords: performance appraisal; academia; university; justice; employees.

DOI: 10.1504/IJPSPM.2020.110992

International Journal of Public Sector Performance Management, 2020 Vol.6 No.6, pp.843 - 853

Received: 26 Jan 2019
Accepted: 28 Jan 2019

Published online: 04 Nov 2020 *

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