THE IMPACT OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SYSTEMS USED IN UTILITY COMPANIES ON EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION: THE CASE OF PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME USED BY TANESCO, ILALA REGION, DAR ES SALAAM

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dc.contributor.author	Mwinuka, Elizabeth
dc.date.accessioned	2020-03-17T06:54:31Z
dc.date.available	2020-03-17T06:54:31Z
dc.date.issued	2013
dc.identifier.uri	http://hdl.handle.net/11192/2879
dc.description	A Dissertation Submitted to Mzumbe University Dar es salaam Campus College in Partial Fulfilment of the Requirements for Award of the Degree of Master of Business Administration (MBA) of Mzumbe University 2013	en_US
dc.description.abstract	The only task for utility companies is to make progressive steps and necessitate them to alleviate dissatisfaction amongst their employees by extensively restructuring their actually used performance appraisal systems. This study was in fact; mainly concerned with findings out the impact of Performance Appraisal System (PAS) used by utility companies on employee job satisfaction in Tanzania: the case of Performance Development Programme used by Tanzania National Electric Company Limited (TANESCO) Ilala Region, Dar es Salaam. The methodology employed by this study had involved the use of questionnaire, focus group discussion in gathering data from the sample size of 60 respondents. Likewise, tables, graphs/pie charts, both illustrated by percentage were used in presenting, and in illustrating facts from respondents upon which further analytical and discussion steps were performed as well. Meanwhile, the study was tasked to achieve four specific objectives including; to determine the impact of PDP used by TANESCO on employee job satisfaction, to find out the level of employee performance as resulted from PAS used by utility companies, to establish the outcome of having specific PAS on employee job attitude in utility companies, and to suggest strategy to be adopted by TANESCO in restructuring its performance development programme to improve employee job satisfaction. Based on the findings, the study had concluded that; there is an impact derived from the use of PDP in TANESCO which had resulted into job dissatisfaction amongst many employees and marked by tendencies like; complaints as being dissatisfied, others have depleted their attendance to their job placement, the likelihood of labour turnover which might occur in the near future and so on. Based on findings, the study had also concluded that; the overall job performance had gone lower after the integration of PDP than it was before its coming-in. The study further concluded that; the attitude of employees towards their job was quite negative following the integration of PDP since many of them seemed to be dissatisfied with it. And finally, one of the suggestions obtained thorough findings have included; utility companie	en_US
dc.publisher	mzumbe	en_US
dc.subject	PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL	en_US
dc.subject	UTILITY COMPANIES	en_US
dc.subject	EMPLOYEE- JOB SATISFACTION	en_US
dc.title	THE IMPACT OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL SYSTEMS USED IN UTILITY COMPANIES ON EMPLOYEE JOB SATISFACTION: THE CASE OF PERFORMANCE DEVELOPMENT PROGRAMME USED BY TANESCO, ILALA REGION, DAR ES SALAAM	en_US
dc.type	Thesis	en_US