Abstract:
Performance of employees of an organization is a key concern of
managers irrespective of their level and position. This is highly
relevant when an organization is experiencing a down word trend or a
standstill in their employees’ performance. Assessment of employees’
performance is required for effective performance management in
organizations. However, a relatively little attention has been paid by
researchers for the identification of an appropriate model of
performance for employees in Sri Lankan context particularly for the
public sector. The purpose of this reported study was to test the two
alternative models of performance on their goodness for assessing the
performance the employees of the selected public sector organizations
in Sri Lanka. A sample of 200 employees was selected representing 11
public sector organizations for the study. Standard questionnaire was
used for the data collection which assesses the performance on
dimensions of the two models and both exploratory and confirmatory factor analysis were applied for the analysis of data. It was found that
the role based model of performance recorded better model fit
statistics over two factor model. The study revealed that the
behavioral factors such as the job, career, team, innovator and
organization are important aspects to be concerned in assessment of
performance of employees. Both theoretical and practiocal
implications of the finding emphazising on performance management
were discussed.
