Investigating the Impact of Performance Appraisal and its Dimension, Directions and Objectives to Staff, on Employees’ Job Satisfaction in INGOs in Yemen

This study aims to gain a better comprehension of how employees in INGOs in Yemen perceive performance appraisals in general and specifically directions and objectives to staff and their role in job satisfaction through exploring the impact of performance appraisal and its dimension, directions and objectives to staff, on employees' job satisfaction in INGOs in Yemen. A quantitative method was used, and relevant questionnaires were distributed to these employees. The findings of the study show that there is a positive significant relationship between job satisfaction and performance appraisal and its above-stated construct. They also reveal that performance appraisal and the aforementioned construct have significant positive impacts on employees’ job satisfaction. Moreover, the high R2 of 82% is an indication of the high explanatory power of the test. The above findings are consistent with similar studies referred to hereunder. This study suggests that decision-makers in Yemen's INGOs should improve the clarity of directions and objectives and the performance appraisal in general. Such improvements are critical since they may result in increasing the employees’ job satisfaction and consequently lead to a better humanitarian service delivered by the respective INGOs through accomplishing more and better work in less time and with fewer resources. The proposed framework is developed based on previous literature on performance appraisal emphasizing that no previous study used performance appraisal and the above construct together to measure their impacts on job satisfaction of employees working in INGOs in Yemen