Factors affecting the effectiveness of employee performance management system (EPMS): A study on the Malaysian Public Service

The effectiveness of Employee Performance Management System (EPMS) is important because it measures the performance of employees, which is useful in enhancing organizational performance. Hence, the aims of this research is to study strategic alignment, employee involvement, continuous feedback, proc...

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Factors affecting the effectiveness of employee performance management system (EPMS): A study on the Malaysian Public Service
description The effectiveness of Employee Performance Management System (EPMS) is important because it measures the performance of employees, which is useful in enhancing organizational performance. Hence, the aims of this research is to study strategic alignment, employee involvement, continuous feedback, procedural justice, interactional justice and distributive justice as the predictor of EPMS satisfaction. Respondents for this study comprised 250 of Public Servants from four ministries in Putrajaya, specifically Ministry of Education, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Prime Minister Department. Multiple regressions were used to determine the strength of the relationship and results showed that the employee involvment, procedural justice and distributive justice is significantly relationship to EPMS satisfaction.Thus, it is recommended that existing EPMS in Malaysian Public Service needs to upgrade certain aspects such as employee involvement, procedural justice and distributive justice in order to increase its effectiveness of the EPMS.
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title Factors affecting the effectiveness of employee performance management system (EPMS): A study on the Malaysian Public Service
title_short Factors affecting the effectiveness of employee performance management system (EPMS): A study on the Malaysian Public Service
title_full Factors affecting the effectiveness of employee performance management system (EPMS): A study on the Malaysian Public Service
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spelling my-uum-etd.46902022-04-10T00:29:44Z Factors affecting the effectiveness of employee performance management system (EPMS): A study on the Malaysian Public Service 2014 Azrul Fazli, Kamarudin Pangil, Faizuniah Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business Othman Yeop Abdullah Graduate School of Business HF5549-5549.5 Personnel Management. Employment The effectiveness of Employee Performance Management System (EPMS) is important because it measures the performance of employees, which is useful in enhancing organizational performance. Hence, the aims of this research is to study strategic alignment, employee involvement, continuous feedback, procedural justice, interactional justice and distributive justice as the predictor of EPMS satisfaction. Respondents for this study comprised 250 of Public Servants from four ministries in Putrajaya, specifically Ministry of Education, Ministry of Natural Resources and Environment, Ministry of Internal Affairs and Prime Minister Department. Multiple regressions were used to determine the strength of the relationship and results showed that the employee involvment, procedural justice and distributive justice is significantly relationship to EPMS satisfaction.Thus, it is recommended that existing EPMS in Malaysian Public Service needs to upgrade certain aspects such as employee involvement, procedural justice and distributive justice in order to increase its effectiveness of the EPMS. 2014 Thesis https://etd.uum.edu.my/4690/ https://etd.uum.edu.my/4690/1/s815940.pdf text eng public https://etd.uum.edu.my/4690/7/s815940_abstract.pdf text eng public masters masters Universiti Utara Malaysia Abraham G.A., Strategic Alignment. 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