Performance evaluation methods in human resource management: A study in Ankara furniture sector

Nowadays, the lack of efficiency in the human resources leads to alower likelihood of success for the organizations even with excess physicalresources. Due to the significance of the human resources, the researcheson people in the organization have incredibly increased resulting in theimprovement of the human resources management.For the organizations, the most important characteristic of personnel istheir contribution to the objectives of the organizations. This contribution iscalled ?personnel performance?. The personnel who display highperformance are the ones who carry out their duties and responsibilitiessuccessfully; hence they make contribution to the objectives of theorganization. The performance evaluation is the measurement of suchcontribution to the organization?s objectives.The contribution, the effects, the aim and the achievements of theperformance evaluation system, which occupies a big place in the operationof the organizations, are the topics that have to be inspected. Therefore, theaim of this study is the determination of the efficiency of the performanceevaluation systems in the furniture and decoration sector, which is a fastrenewing sector improving itself and occupying a big place in our every partof life.The research is composed of five parts; the first of the four theoreticalparts is about the human resources management. The second and the thirdparts are on performance evaluation. The former consists of performanceand performance evaluation concepts, and the latter comprises the methodsof performance evaluation. The fourth of the theoretical parts examines theperformance evaluation system. The fifth and last part contains detailedinformation on a survey study of the furniture and decoration organizations inAnkara and the survey?s results. In the conclusion part of this study, the dataobtained from the survey is evaluated and recommendations are presented.