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Staff academic performance and appraisal is a regulated
review of assessment of staff in an academic institution. It
creates a platform for Heads of Departments, Deans and the
Academic Board (AB) under the Chairmanship of the Rector to
evaluate staff performance to determine the strengths and
weaknesses of staff and at the same time offer feedback
through grading of the performances of the staff affected.
Since it is the staff that is being appraised, it is
important that those with the responsibility of appraising
staff to tender constructive feedback to their staff by
giving them very clear directions on areas of improvement in
the future. The motivation for this research work was due to
the fact that staff appraisal is done through a manual
system and during staff appraisal, staff of Federal
Polytechnic Nekede, Owerri experiences delays in the
submission of appraisal form, errors in the information
provided in the form, late submission of forms due to
non-provision of deadlines or poor communication of
deadlines for submission, loss of appraisal forms after it
has been picked up by staff, grading difficulties by the
HODs and Deans and inabilities of staff on study leave
abroad to gain access to the form. The aim of this research
work therefore is to design and implement an automated
system that will solve the problems of the manual system of
staff appraisal in the institution. The methodology which
will be employed to achieve this aim will be the spiral
model of software engineering methodology called structured
system analysis and design methodology (SSADM) because of
the sequential step by step approach involved in the
development process. The result will be the achievement of
the design of a user-friendly automated software solution
which will solve the problems of the manual system of staff
appraisal.
Keywords: Appraisal, automation, efficiency, communication,
deadline, evaluation
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