How is project Appraisal different from performance Appraisal?

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Here’s a difference between Project Appraisal and Performance Appraisal:

Project Appraisal

Meaning: Project appraisal is a systematic method of evaluating the feasibility of a project or plan. It entails calculating the project's viability before devoting resources to it. It is a mechanism that entities use to choose the best project that will help them achieve their objectives. Project appraisal often involves a comparison of different alternatives.

Focus: It mainly focuses on ascertaining the viability of project proposal.

Factor affecting: Lack of a project team, lack of goal commitment, inadequacy of working capital, and other factors affect project appraisal.

Benefit: Its advantages include ease of use, improved morale and teamwork, increased productivity and profitability, and increased motivation.

Objective : IIts primary goal is to illustrate and extract critical information for deciding whether a project will succeed or fail.

Methods: It includes economic analysis, financial analysis, market analysis and technological viability, among others

Economic Analysis - Economic analysis aids in justifying the project's advantages vs. the cost of production. It constitutes undermining the projects', products', and features' advantages, as well as a contrast of the product to the project's cost of production.

Technical Analysis - Technical analysis aids in the examination of the project's technical aspects. Assessments of Tools and Techniques, Design, Plans, and Schedules, for example.

Financial Analysis - Financial analysis aids in determining the project's expense and income. This method of valuation analysis often aids the organisation in avoiding overspending on a project's resource and production requirements. This will also assist companies in determining the viability of potential cost-cutting and profit-generating strategies.

Organizational Analysis - Organisational analysis can help determine whether a project is sufficiently staffed based on the organization's structure. Additionally, it aids in the evaluation of resource, recruitment, and training aspects.

Managerial Analysis - Managerial analysis aids in determining the promoter's competency and industry knowledge.

Commercial Analysis - Demand prospects, marketing strategies, and marketing process plans can all be assessed using commercial analysis.

Stages: Stages of project appraisal include:

• Initial assessment

• Defining problem

• Developing feasible solutions

• Identify stakeholder and their needs

• Define the project's objectives, strategies, broad scope, timeline, and estimated costs.

• Comparing and selecting project

Performance Appraisal

Meaning: The performance appraisal also involves both the organization's core competencies and the competencies relevant to the employee's job. Based on the appraisal, the appraiser, who is usually a supervisor or manager, may provide the employee with positive, actionable input. This, in turn, gives the employee the guidance they need to grow and develop in their role.

A performance appraisal is also an incentive for the company to identify employee contributions and future success based on the feedback.

Focus: It primarily focuses on assisting managers in properly staffing entities and using human capital to boost productivity.

Factor affecting: Lack of motivation, team spirit, inefficiency, absenteeism, and biases are all factors that influence performance appraisal.

Benefit: Employee productivity, better merit-based pay, employee growth, enhanced selection, effective communication, improved performance, and motivation are just a few of the advantages.

Objective: Its key goals include improving incentives, selection, and training procedures to help employees grow and evolve for better performance, motivation, productivity, and efficiency.

Methods: It comprises self-evaluation, a behavioural checklist, 360-degree feedback, and rating scales, among other things.

Self Evaluation - Employees first conduct their own performance appraisal against a series of parameters in a self-evaluation assessment.

Behavioral Checklist - A Yes or No checklist is issued for a number of characteristics. A YES is ticked if the supervisor believes the employee possess a characteristic. A NO is marked if they believe the employee has not demonstrated the trait. It can be left blank if they are uncertain.

360 Degree Feedback - This method of evaluation takes into account not only the manager's and employee's direct input, but also that of other team members and sources.

Ratings Scale - A rating scale is a common form of evaluation. It employs a collection of predetermined parameters against which a manager evaluates an employee. Each collection of parameters is weighted, allowing for the calculation of a measured score at the conclusion of the analysis.

Management by objectives - This is a relatively new approach that is growing in popularity. It entails an agreement between the employee and the manager on a set of attainable performance objectives that the employee would work for over a set period of time. The goals and how they were reached are checked at the next evaluation cycle, and new goals are set.

Stages: Stages of performance appraisal include

• Inter department individual appraisals

• Determining assessment method

• Establishing job expectations and required competencies

• Individual appraisals on employee performance

• Interview with an employee to discuss the review.

• Determining future goals

• Ultising appraisal information for improvement and development

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Hello Aspirant,

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Project Appraisal and performance Appraisal both are different terms

Project Appraisal :- Project appraisal is the process of assessing or proceeding with a project . It is the structured way for proceeding the Project or Proposal. We can use this method to accept or reject the project. It is an important activity to evaluate the important factor of an project.

Performance Appraisal :- Performance appraisal is an regular review of employee performance. The main purpose of performance appraisal to check how skillfully employee can do their duty.  It helps to keep records on the basis of performance of each employee.

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