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The Legal Environment of Performance Appraisal
Author(s) -
Smith Barry John
Publication year - 1991
Publication title -
asia pacific journal of human resources
Language(s) - English
Resource type - Journals
SCImago Journal Rank - 0.825
H-Index - 33
eISSN - 1744-7941
pISSN - 1038-4111
DOI - 10.1177/103841119102900205
Subject(s) - function (biology) , speculation , performance appraisal , business , extrapolation , law , law and economics , political science , management , economics , finance , evolutionary biology , biology , mathematical analysis , mathematics
If the personnel management function is viewed as a system, then input and output processes have for some time now been forced to meet certain legal requirements. The hiring and firing of people has become legally circumscribed Most of the throughput parts of the system, however, have escaped comparable legal attention. Nevertheless, legal concerns are beginning to make their presence felt in the personnel functions of training and performance appraisal This article attempts an overview of the possible legal influences on performance appraisal. It ranges over present legal requirements, through some extrapolation, to future speculation, in an attempt to build up a model of the legal factors which do or may impinge on performance appraisal.