ABSTRACT
The study is designed to investigate the impact of performance appraisal on employee motivation, for an organization to survive in any business, the performance of its employees and the entire organization has to be controlled and appraised periodically.
However, this study was necessitated by the need to investigate by the performance appraisal techniques employed by Akwa Ibom state civil service as the case study, it was discovered that the techniques used by the government are:
1. Ranking and
Forced distribution.
It is necessary to appraise the performance of the workers objectively because without this appraisal, it can affect the productive level of companies greatly.