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The Legal Environment of Performance Appraisal

School of Human Resource and Labour Relations, Queensland University of Technology

I f the personnel management function is viewed as a system, then input and output processes have for some time now been forced to meet certain legal requirements. The hiring and firing of people has become legally circumscribed Most of the throughput parts of the system, however, have escaped comparable legal attention. Nevertheless, legal concerns are beginning to make their presence felt in the personnel functions of training and performance appraisal This article attempts an overview of the possible legal influences on performance appraisal. It ranges over present legal requirements, through some extrapolation, to future speculation, in an attempt to build up a model of the legal factors which do or may impinge on performance appraisal.

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