The Practices and Problems of Employee Appraisal Systems: A Psychological Perspectives

The objective of the study was to assess the practices and problems of employee performance appraisal system in Ethiopian Telecommunication Agency. The intention of the study was that majority of the employees are de motivated in their work, do not satisfied regarding their performance evaluation, complaining heard among departments for rewards and frequent turnover of employees. The study employed descriptive research methodology. The researcher used stratified random sampling technique in selecting respondents, while interview informants selected purposively. In addition, data collected through questionnaires, interview and documents analysis. The collected data analyzed through quantitatively and qualitatively. Quantitative data described by using frequency, percentages and mean scores. The findings revealed that purpose of appraisal is not connected with varieties of its function, which is facilitating both developmental and administrative issues of employees.  In the study, both evaluator and evaluates lack awareness of evaluation method (BSC), evaluation is not undertaken in a planned time schedule, bias (subjectivity of evaluator), difficulty of customizing evaluation criteria, and defining activities and targets, misunderstanding of the evaluation system (BSC), misperception and attitude of employees are identified as a major problems faced in the employee performance evaluation. To overcome the challenges and bottle necks of employees performance appraisal system; the importance of improving evaluation system, continuous training for awareness creation concerning method of evaluation (BSC), commitment of both evaluator and evaluates, being trustworthy and loyalty through the process of evaluation were recommended. Keywords: Employees, Performance, Appraisal System, Practices and Problem

Gender Discriminatory Practices in Organisations – Need for Social Work Intervention – A Conceptual Study

Gender inequality has been a historic worldwide phenomenon, a patriarchal invention based on gender assumptions, rooted in culture and gender norms, which promotes subordination and exploitation of woman. This shameful practice of discrimination against women is prevalent everywhere in the world and more so in Indian society. The real enemies behind gender stereotypes are ignorance, intolerance, and stagnant societies that resist change. Presence of gender disparities has been evidenced by many Global as well as national Indexes. According to UNDP’s Gender Inequality Index-2014, India ranks at 127out of 152 countries in the list, just above Afghanistan as far as SAARC countries are concerned.Woman faces discrimination at both home and workplace. Gender discrimination at workplace is an issue of serious concern, as it leads to gender segregation in the workplace in terms of benefits, hours, leave, wages, opportunities and promotions, etc.According to India’s National Sample Survey, the proportion of working women in urban areas has increased from 11.9% in 2001 to 15.4% in 2011. But even in this, the fastest growing proportion is that of domestic housework. In The distribution of worker by Occupations and Gender in India 2011-12 survey, it was noticed that while 9.15% men were working in the positions of directors and chief executives, only 5.08% women were involved in the same.Achieving gender equality is important for workplaces not only because it is 'fair' and 'the right thing to do', but because it is also linked to a country's overall economic and social progress. This study aims at understanding the gender discrimination which exists at different levels and in different kinds at workplaces and conceptualizing effective social work intervention techniques and ideas to decrease the intensity of the problem.

Getting nowhere fast: a teleological conception of socio-technical acceleration

It has been frequently recognized that the perceived acceleration of life that has been experienced from the Industrial Revolution onward is engendered, at least in part, by an understanding of speed as an end in itself. There is no equilibrium to be reached – no perfect speed – and as such, social processes are increasingly driven not by rational ends, but by an indeterminate demand for acceleration that both defines and restricts the decisional possibilities of actors. In Aristotelian terms, this is a final cause – i.e. a teleology – of speed: it is not a defined end-point, but rather, a purposive aim that predicates the emergence of possibilities. By tracing this notion of telos from its beginnings in ancient Greece, through the ur-empiricism of Francis Bacon, and then to our present epoch, this paper seeks to tentatively examine the way in which such a teleology can be theoretically divorced from the idea of historical progress, arguing that the former is premised upon an untenable ontological privileging of becoming

Natural law, non-voluntary euthanasia, and public policy

© 2019 by Emerald Publishing Limited. Natural Law philosophy asserts that there are universally binding and universally evident principles that can be determined to guide the actions of persons. Moreover, many of these principles have been enshrined in both statute and common law, thus ensuring their saliency for staff and institutions charged with palliative care. The authors examine the often emotive and politicized matter of (non-voluntary) euthanasia – acts or omissions made with the intent of causing or hastening death – with reference to Natural Law philosophy. This leads us to propose a number of important public policy remedies to ensure dignity in dying for the patient, and their associates

Reciprocity as a foundation of financial economics

This paper argues that the subsistence of the fundamental theorem of contemporary financial mathematics is the ethical concept ‘reciprocity’. The argument is based on identifying an equivalence between the contemporary, and ostensibly ‘value neutral’, Fundamental Theory of Asset Pricing with theories of mathematical probability that emerged in the seventeenth century in the context of the ethical assessment of commercial contracts in a framework of Aristotelian ethics. This observation, the main claim of the paper, is justified on the basis of results from the Ultimatum Game and is analysed within a framework of Pragmatic philosophy. The analysis leads to the explanatory hypothesis that markets are centres of communicative action with reciprocity as a rule of discourse. The purpose of the paper is to reorientate financial economics to emphasise the objectives of cooperation and social cohesion and to this end, we offer specific policy advice

[Introduction] Toward an anthropology of the just price: history, ethnography, critique

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