Performance appraisal process in primary and secondary schools-problems and expectations about preparation of employment records (Elaziğ example)

ABSTRACTMaster ThesisPERFORMANCE APPRAISAL PROCESS IN PRIMARY AND SECONDARYSCHOOLS- PROBLEMS AND EXPECTATIONS ABOUT PREPARATION OFEMPLOYMENT RECORDS(ELAZIĞ EXAMPLE)Preparer:İrfan Tansel ÜZMEZAdvisor:Assist. Prof. Fatma ÖZMENUniversity of FIRATInstitute of Social SciencesDepartment of Educational Siences2006Recently human resource is considered as the most important factor to obtain acompetitive dominance. To utilize the human resource effectively in the organizationscan only be possible with performance appraisal of the employees. The success of theeducation institutions depends not only on the improvement of the human resource andalso on the motivation of the employees about the organizational objectives.The main purpose of performance appraisal is to determine the knowledge,talent, and potential of the employees by measuring their recent performance, to bringout the needs of education and to determine the staff members who have the potential toget promotion. To achieve all of these an effective communication, motivation, andcooperation to provide job-satisfaction are the most important factors. Thereforeperformance appraisal process is considered as the basis for human resourcemanagement.The purpose of this research, Literature is to specify the importance ofperformance appraisal for effective organization management, to identify the principlesand methods in performance appraisal, to show the applications of performanceappraisal like inspections and preparation of employment records in education systemsof Turkey and some other countries, to specify the effectiveness of school principals inpreparing the employment records in Turkey on the basis of teachers and of schoolprinciples point of view. It also gives suggestions about preparing more effectiveemployment records through the results obtained by the research. To achieve thesegoals one primary school and one secondary school is selected from each educationregion of ELAZIĞ as examples and the opinions of the teachers and of the schoolprinciples are collected by surveys. These surveys are evaluated by t and one waydifference method.Key words: Performance appraisal, performance management system, school principalsappraisal, preparation of employment record, inspection