Influence of Performance Appraisal Challenges Facing Nurses on their Job Involvement

Background: Performance appraisal challenges are obstacles that hinder fairevaluation, including appraiser bias, unclear criteria, and inadequate feedback. Innursing, these challenges can reduce motivation, job involvement, and professionalcommitment, adversely affecting patient care quality and organizational effectiveness.Aim: To assess the influence of performance appraisal challenges facing nurses ontheir job involvement. Design: A descriptive- correlational research design was used.Setting: The study was carried out at Tanta International Teaching - Hospital.Subjects: It included all nurses (N=1104) at the previous mentioned setting ofworking. Tools: Two tools were used: a structured questionnaire on performanceappraisal challenges and nurses’ job involvement scale. Results: Nearly half (48.9%)of nurses had a low level of perception about challenges of performance appraisal. Aswell as, more than half (50.8%) of nurses had a low level of job involvement.Conclusion: There was a negative significant correlation between performanceappraisal challenges and nurses' job involvement. Recommendations: Enhancingfairness, and transparency, providing regular feedback, and involving nurses in goalsetting to strengthen their job involvement