Strategic human resource management $($HRM$)$ involves establishing fair, legally sound, and effective performance management and employee compensation systems. Performance management involves the methods organizations employ to appraise, communicate, and manage employee performance in the workplace. Effective performance management systems align individual and team performance with organizational strategy. Performance management systems are critical to organizational success and must be fair, accurate, and unbiased. Sensitivity towards fairness and compliance with ethical and legal requirements is essential when making decisions about performance management and employee compensation.

Design a performance appraisal system and write a $35$ page paper summarizing and analyzing the system. You may base the performance appraisal system on a job of your choice.

Be sure to address the following in your paper:

Describe the job, highlighting the duties, and major tasks and responsibilities.

Describe your performance appraisal system by addressing each of the following:

purpose and desired outcomes from the performance appraisal system definitions of performance specific performance criteria rating method$($s$)$ source$($s$)$ of performance data

Discuss how performance appraisal ratings would affect employee compensation for employees in this job.

Present strategies for ensuring your performance appraisal system addresses each of the following:

strategic alignment perceptions of fairness accuracy practicality