Performance appraisal: what’s the matter with you?

Performance management has been put in the most important place in HRM, as well as in the strategic management. However, performance appraisal, the core of HRM, has become a deep gap between performance appraisers and employees. This is why performance appraisal has got great attention in both theoretical study and daily practice. This paper first makes a research to collect lots of views about why performance appraisal is not welcome, then from the angle of performance appraisal itself and appraisers as well as employees, the paper combines with stresses and conflicts, organizational political behavior and organizational injustice in organization to analyze the reason why performance appraisal is not welcome and to give the viewpoint about how to make performance appraisal become popular.