A Performance Appraisal Study Of Knowledged Research And Development Staff

Following the development of worldwide economy's integration and advanced technology's change,many Chinese companies with high manufacturing skills become bigger than before. Therefore, as the most active and creative staff, Research and Development (R & D) ones have become core human capital for the companies'development. But, until now the traditional performance appraisal methods of are still widely used by most corporations, which is inappropriate for R & D staff who have intensive knowledge and high intelligence. Also, those are not effective ways to stimulate R & D staff's wisdom, and promote technology's innovation.In order to construct a high-technology evaluation system of small and/or medium enterprises'performance, this thesis uses the subjects of management science, psychology, organizational behavior, statistics and other disciplines theory. Firstly, the thesis will introduce the concept, characteristics and working principles of the R & D staff, and analyze the current performance appraisals'contents and methods. By analyzing the contractual relationship between the R & D staff and benefit related people, the performance appraisal indicators for R & D staff are divided into three parts: output indicators (based on the job), behavior indicators (based on the behavior of organizational environment), and accumulated indicators (based on the accumulation of deferred performance). Further research focuses on the respective analyses of these three aspects to select scientific indicators to enhance knowledged R&D staff's performance appraisal outcomes.This thesis uses M Company's real cases to analyze its existing performance appraisal problems. Combining the performance appraisal system and mechanism, a performance appraisal process is designed for M company where the process includes performance appraisal's implementer, time, reliability and validity, communication, comparison and evaluation of treatment and improvement. The results show that employees'satisfaction has been increased significantly, the lose of main technical staff has been remarkablely improved, and the enthusiasm of knowledge-based R & D staff has also boosted. At last, this thesis proved that the particular performance appraisal system for knowledge-based R & D staff is practical, and it is meaningful for high-technology enterprises.