Pathology of Employee Performance Evaluation System in Abadan Refinery

Organizational pathology or diagnosis is a comprehensive inspection of the organization sunits in relation to progress towards the goals carried out by each organization s leadersand managers. The aim of diagnosis is not only to look for the defects, but the goal is alsoto find the current status regarding the preset programs and policies. The currentsituation may be appropriate or may need to be changed and modified. Therefore,identifying and understanding the problems would be of the first activities done in theorganizational change. In fact, pathology gives credit to the organizational change in alawful and inseparable part of the methodology. Many methods have been provided toinstitutionalize organizational pathology. The pathology scope includes detailedaddressing to all systems and every single problem. Given the importance of the topic, thepresent study aimed to evaluate the pathology of performance evaluation system inAbadan refinery. After a review of previous research and making a conceptual model, aquestionnaire was prepared and submitted to the employees of the organization. Finally,data obtained from 335 questionnaires was analyzed. The data was analyzed by SPSSsoftware and using Amos structural equations. The results of this study indicated that theemployees were satisfied with none of the studied factors, and all these factors in theperformance evaluation system were damaged. Among them, the manager support hadthe lowest damage, and the assessment process met the highest damage. On the otherhand, through ranking the variables by Friedman test, we came to the conclusion that thefeedback and manager s support variables had higher priorities.

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Pathology , Performance evaluation system , Performance evaluation , Abadan Refinery