Individual’s Performance Evaluation Model of High-Tech Firms in Science Parks of Taiwan

Abstract

Performance evaluation aims to probe into individuals’ job performance and progress in order to discover the employees’ potential of being promoted and construct employees’ individual career planning. Therefore, performance evaluation is a kind of systematic approach to acquire, analyze and record individuals’ job performance. By the evaluation, the supervisors can improve the employees’ performance, plan their career, enhance their self-growth and enhance the outcome of business operation. Main purposes of performance evaluation in most of firms are summarized as wage adjustment, promotion, employment and discharge, bonus 5, job guidance, potential development, career planning in addition to manpower planning. The first four purposes refer to assessment, reward and punishment of “reaction” and the last four are “development” approaches. In order to meet the purposes of evaluation, by questionnaires, the researcher probes into the cognition and current implementation of performance evaluation on small and medium traditional enterprises in Taiwan.