Performance appraisal feedback and the determination ofthe views and the expectations of the staff regarding the topic

In today?s global world, rapidly changing conditions of business world force organizations to have higher performance and higher goals. This fosters the need of qualified human resources. Due to the fact that human resources need development , organizations are trying hard with some processes to achieve higher performance.Regarding this, the performance management is a process making the organization and the employees have the common goals , regulating all the applications to reach these goals and providing the use of all resources effectively. Besides this, performance management enables the job to be developed and also helps the employee to improve himself/herself. With respect to this, letting the employee know the results of performance appraisal in performance appraisal meeting has an important role. In this study, the aim is to anaylse the appraisal meeting and also determine the views and expectations of the employees to find how to make it more effective.The sample of the study contains employees who work in an organization ? which is in Eskişehir with 140 white-collar employees in February 2010- that has performance appraisal. The participants were asked to fill in a questionnaire which is about the the employees?views and the expectations of the performance appraisal meeting . It includes 10 questions to define the participants?features about their demographic and business life and 41 questions about the views and expectations of the performance appraisal meeting. In order to determine the basic factors that foster the effectiveness of performance appraisal meeting , the factor analysis method was used in the study and the results of the survey are evaluated accordingly. The results of this study could be a guide for the managers and academicians .