Performance Appraisal System for Allion Technologies (PVT) LTD

Abstract

The purpose of this paper to introduce an automate performance appraisal system for a software developing organization. Allion technologies used, manual form based performance appraisal system for assessing the performance and productivity of individual employees. This manual appraisal system generated several difficulties like data redundancy, data inaccuracy and delayed submissions of forms due to lack of communication through the system. The web based performance appraisal system is built to cover some of the crucial aspects of the system goals like administrator login and dynamic user creation, role base user access functionality, automating the excel sheet based performance appraisal process, designation based performance criteria handling, user rating interface and report generating and etc. This web base system allows, system users to access it and monitor it whenever it is needed avoiding the problems caused by geographical distance. The performance appraisal system has been developed over Intel(R) Pentium(R) CPU 2.00GHz, 3GB RAM, 320 GB Hard disk computer installed with Windows 7 home basic 64-bit OS,XAMPP and Yii PHP Framework for providing the MVC architecture ensuring a clear separation of logic and presentation. SQLyog Enterprise was used for handling the database tables, TortoiceSVN was used to have records of continuously made modifications to the system from its beginning.PHP, HTML, CSS, Java script, AJAX were used for coding. Adobe Photoshop CS3 and Adobe Dreamweaver CS3 were used for GUI creations. Entire system was tested to find out the errors of the system and performed necessary corrections. System was modularized and each module was tested in contrast to system requirements. System testing together with Given User trial proved automated performance appraisal system reduced almost all the manual processes dealing with the appraisal discussion and provided secure environment for rating process and minimize most of labour works currently done by staff members. Overall, the automated system enhanced the employee productivity and organizational growth.