AN ASSESSMENT OF IMPACT OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL ON ORGANISATIONAL PERFORMANCE OF THE OKE-OGUN POLYTECHNIC, SAKI, OYO STATE, NIGERIA

The significance of employees in the triumph of any organization cannot be overstated; considering their crucial role in achieving the goals of the organisation, the workforce should be treated as an indispensable instrument in organisational sustainability. Many Nigerian organisations are concerned about employee performance, particularly in the country's government sector, but desirable performance could not be attained without properly evaluating employees’ output. Thus, this work examined the assessment of impact of performance appraisal on organisational performance in Nigeria, which used The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki {TOPS}, as the study area. The main objective of the study is to investigate the impact of performance appraisal on organisational performance in The Oke-Ogun Polytechnic, Saki. This research work adopted a survey design. The population of the study is the entire staff of the study area (TOPS), which is 750 staff made up of 180 teaching staff and 570 non-teaching staff. The Taro Yamane formula is used to determine the sample size, which is 261. The study made use of both primary and secondary data. A simple percent table was adopted to present the questionnaire, and the Statistical Package for Social Sciences (SPSS) was used to test the study hypotheses. The findings of the study revealed that there is a significant relationship between performance appraisal and employee promotion. Also, it shows that there is a significant relationship between performance appraisal and bribery or favouritism. Therefore, the study concludes that performance appraisal has a significant relationship with organisation’s performance, that is, with fair and just employees’ performance appraisal there would be positive contribution to the organisational development.