Hi Swathi, Here is the diffirence between performance appraisal and performance management... Performance appraisal of employees is necessary to understand each employee's abilities,competencies and relative merits and worth for organisation..In simple words,,Performance appraisal is to rate the employees in terms of thier performance.....where as Performance Management focuses on performance of organisation ,departments,processes to build a product or service,employees etc......... there diffirent sites and books where you get the methods of the topic.... cheers, Swetha |