Cultural Factors in Designing Performance Appraisal System

While examining the impact of some cultural factors on the behaviour of employees in Indian organization, the article discusses how these factors could be taken into account in developing appraisal systems. The Indian social environment tends to emphasize concepts of self, loyalty, regard for authority, interpersonal behaviour, etc., differently from those of the West. An understanding of this difference would be relevant for developing administrative systems for India. Whatever problems of developing appraisal systems exist in the Western industrial environment are also observed in India. Apart from the technical difficulties of operating appraisal system, certain difficulties arise also from the cultural aspects in India. The article suggests that taking these problems into consideration would greatly aid appraisal systems to serve their intended purpose.