Drvna industrija, Vol. 69 No. 2, 2018.
Original scientific paper
https://doi.org/10.5552/drind.2018.1710
Impact of Performance Appraisal on Employee Motivation and Productivity in Turkish Forest Products Industry: A Structural Equation Modeling Analysis
Aytaç Aydın
orcid.org/0000-0001-7460-9618
; Karadeniz Technical University, Faculty of Forestry, Department of Forest Industry Engineering, Trabzon, Turkey
Sebahattin Tiryaki
; Karadeniz Technical University, Arsin Vocational School, Department of Material and Material Processing Technologies, Arsin/Trabzon, Turkey
Abstract
The present study investigates the influence of performance appraisal on employee motivation and productivity in Turkish forest products industry using a structural equation model. The questionnaires prepared for this purpose were applied to 432 people that work in 14 forest products industry businesses operating throughout Turkey. A total of nine hypotheses were established to determine the relationship between performance appraisal and employee motivation and productivity. The results indicated that five hypotheses were accepted, while four of them were rejected. In the light of the findings of this study, it may be generally said that the effect of performance appraisal on employee motivation and productivity was high. In other words, performance appraisal was found to be a major factor on employee motivation and productivity. The present study is expected to help managers and decision makers in selecting suitable motivating factors in order to retain and satisfy their employees. Consequently, this study will fill an important gap in the area of performance appraisal in the forest products industry by structural equation modeling and presents the opportunity for further studies.
Keywords
employee performance; forest product industry; organizational performance; structural equation modeling
Hrčak ID:
202884
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Publication date:
3.7.2018.
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