Performance Appraisal of Human Resources in Anglo-Saxon Higher Education Institutions in Cameroon

Performance appraisal is one of the areas of human resources in educational administration which brings about school effectiveness. When school activities are well apprised and results communicated, corrections will be effected leading to school effectiveness. Thus, this article is intended at exploring Performance Appraisal of Human Resources in Anglo Saxon Higher Education Institutions in Cameroon. The implication is that performance appraisal of human resources can impact school effectiveness. data was collected from primary sources through the administration of interview to ten administrators and questionnaires to lecturers using the five point Likert scale format and close ended questionnaires to 375 lecturers. Two data analysis approaches were used for the study that is the qualitative and quantitative method. In all, despite these lapses with performance appraisal observed, all the lecturers 331 100 agreed that the basic purpose of performance appraisal is to facilitate orderly determination of an employee's worth to the organization of which he is a part and the first step in the process of performance appraisal is the setting up of the standards which will be used as the base to compare the actual performance of the employees. It was then recommended that future research on performance appraisal in the Anglo Saxon Higher Institutions in Cameroon studies should focus on leadership and the management of staff performance in institutions of higher learning. The research would focus on the style of leadership in an institution and how it influences the implementation of performance appraisal. Literature indicates that leadership provides vision and builds staff confidence to enable them to achieved targets. Leaders decide on appraisal policy, purpose and implementation procedures. Nforbi Shalotte Lem "Performance Appraisal of Human Resources in Anglo-Saxon Higher Education Institutions in Cameroon" Published in International Journal of Trend in Scientific Research and Development (ijtsrd), ISSN: 2456-6470, Volume-4 | Issue-1 , December 2019, URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/papers/ijtsrd29593.pdf Paper URL: https://www.ijtsrd.com/humanities-and-the-arts/education/29593/performance-appraisal-of-human-resources-in-anglo-saxon-higher-education-institutions-in-cameroon/nforbi-shalotte-lem