Role of Fuzzy Techniques in Performance Appraisal of Teaching Staff

Every organization conduct performance appraisal of employees to measure their effectiveness. Performance appraisal is a method by which the job performance of an employee is evaluated. It is a part of career development which consists of regular reviews of employee performance within organizations. Educational institutes and universities carry out performance appraisals of teaching staff on regular intervals. The main purpose of performance appraisal is evaluation and development of employees. In Educational Institutes performance of a teacher is affected by various factors like teaching, student’s feedbacks, use of innovative techniques in teaching learning process, research, publications. According to University Grant Commission’s (UGC) notification approved by Govt. of Maharashtra State, the Academic Performance Indicators for teaching staff appraisal comprises all these mentioned factors. UGC’s API grouped all these factors affecting teacher’s performance into different categories [11]. While measuring performance of a teacher, Higher Educational Institutes should consider all these factors. There are many traditional ways to measure performance of employees. With the recent inventions in Information Technology more effective and efficient ways for performance measurement are available. Using soft computing techniques, effective measurement of teacher’s performance is possible. Researchers all over the world are trying to use Fuzzy techniques to improve the effectiveness of performance appraisal. This paper is an attempt to highlight the role of Fuzzy Techniques in Measuring Performance of Teaching Staff for Appraisal.