The Challenges Facing Open Performance Review Appraisal System (OPRAS) in Public Institutions in Tanzania. A Case of Kigoma Ujiji Municipal Council.

Kwigize, Moshi N. M. (2013) The Challenges Facing Open Performance Review Appraisal System (OPRAS) in Public Institutions in Tanzania. A Case of Kigoma Ujiji Municipal Council. Masters thesis, The Open University of Tanzania.

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Abstract

The study was done in Kigoma Region. The general objective of the proposed study was to investigate the challenges facing employees’ performance appraisal system in Kigoma/Ujiji Municipal Council; A Case of Kigoma Ujiji Municipal Council and thereby suggests the transformative approaches to address the situation. The study used questionnaire method, interview guide and documentary review as the methods of data collection. Basing on data analysis, Presentation and discussion; tables, figures and the summary of the findings were used. The findings revealed that, there is an existing program of doing employee performance appraisal in Kigoma Municipal Council which has been exercised annually as other public sectors do. However, the results show that employee performance appraisal program in the field of study is not conducted successfully. It was exposed that the most notable challenges that faced programs are: biasness whereby there is unfair performance appraisal, employees do not understand their performance objectives clearly and they do not get enough performance objectives information, there is no good relationship between supervisors and their subordinates, the performance appraisal programs are managed poorly, after performance appraisal employees are not motivated at a reliable time, The study recommended that, there should be a clear performance appraisal system and insure good supervision when subordinates fill in the OPRAS forms every year and Supervisors should provide rewards such as; promotion, demotion, increments and recognition.

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