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Performance appraisal is a mechanism for determining the performance levels of
employees in any organization based on reward and remedy programmes implemented.
Thus, Open Performance Review and Appraisal system are employed as the tool to
enhance primary school teachers’ performance in Misungwi district. Introducing or
adapting a new system of performance appraisal was expected to improve teachers’
performance, though the situation of having no changes in performance of primary
school teachers’. This study indulged itself to deal with this phenomenon. The study was
guided by four research objectives: examine the importance of OPRAS to primary
school teachers; assess the quality and standard of using OPRAS as a tool for enhancing
teachers' performance; explore the efficiency of using OPRAS as a tool for enhancing
teachers' performance and examine the perception of teachers towards OPRAS. The
empirical and theoretical literatures were reviewed from which the study prepared the
conceptual framework and used Herzberg’s two factor and the Equity theories. The
mixed method approach was used and this study was guided by methodological
triangulation design, employed by questionnaire, interviews and documentaries collect
data which were analyzed by statistical tools of frequencies and averages and finally
presented in tables and diagrams by use of statistical package for social sciences (SPSS).
The major findings were; OPRAS is very important, but the government put less effort
on it, the quality and standards of OPRAS are very poor, there is little efficiency of
using OPRAS goals are not achieved and teacher has a negative perception toward
OPRAS. |
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