4. Graphic rating scales
The Rating Scale is a form on which the manager simply checks off the employee’s level of performance.This is the oldest and most widely method used for performance appraisal.
5. Essay Evaluation
This method asked managers / supervisors to describe strengths and weaknesses of an employee’s behavior. Essay evaluation is a non-quantitative techniqueThis method usually use with the graphic rating scale method.
6. Behaviorally anchored rating scales
This method used to describe a performance rating that focused on specific behaviors or sets as indicators of effective or ineffective performance.It is a combination of the rating scale and critical incident techniques of employee performance evaluation.
7. Performance ranking method
Ranking is a performance appraisal method that is used to evaluate employee performance from best to worst.Manager will compare an employee to another employee, rather than comparing each one to a standard measurement.
8. Management By Objectives (MBO)
MBO is a process in which managers / employees set objectives for the employee, periodically evaluate the performance, and reward according to the result.MBO focuses attention on what must be accomplished (goals) rather than how it is to be accomplished (methods)
9. 360 degree performance appraisal
360 Degree Feedback is a system or process in which employees receive confidential, anonymous feedback from the people who work around them.
10.Forced ranking (forced distribution)
Forced ranking is a method of performance appraisal to rank employee but in order of forced distribution.For example, the distribution requested with 10 or 20 percent in the top category, 70 or 80 percent in the middle, and 10 percent in the bottom.
11. Behavioral Observation Scales
Behavioral Observation Scales is frequency rating