Self-Efficacy and Performance Appraisal among Government and Private Sector Bank Employees:A Comparative Investigation

Every organisation seeks to optimise the performance of their human resources in order to increase the performance of their employees as well as the organisation. For this HRD policy including trainiin g and development, performance appraisal, rewards and recognition, organisation development and career planning play a significant role in managing and sustaining the organisation performance. The role of performance appraisal and constructive feedback help in enforcing the objective of the organisation. The application of self-efficacy in employees in organisational setting in relation to performance appraisal can help in setting and achieving more realistic targets for which there is dearth of a comprehensive review of literature. Keeping this in mind, the present research work was carried out with the purpose of assessing the effectiveness level of self efficacy and performance appraisal among employees of banks. The sample consisted of 100 bank employees, age ranging from 24 to 40 years drawn randomly from banks (Government and Private sector), from the tri-city (Chandigarh, Mohali & Panchkula). Results of the present investigation indicate that a significant difference was found on self-efficacy and performance appraisal among government and private bank employees, where private sector bank employees were found to be higher than their government sector counter parts on both self-efficacy and performance appraisal.