Abstract
The present study was on performance appraisal as predictor of business educators’ perceived job performance and retention in South-South, Nigeria. One research question was raised to guide the study and answered. Two hypotheses were also formulated and tested at 0.05 level of significance. The study adopted a correlational survey research design. The population of the study comprised all business educators in colleges of education in South-South, Nigeria. The simple random sampling technique was used in selecting two states (Edo and Delta) from the six states in South-South, Nigeria. The total sample size of the study comprised 128 business educators in the six colleges of education in Edo and Delta States. The instrument used was a questionnaire titled ‘Performance Appraisal, Job Performance and Retention Questionnaire (PAJORQ).’ The instrument was validated by two experts. The cronbach alpha was used in ascertaining the reliability of the instrument and it yielded a reliability coefficient of .91. The data collected from the respondents were analyzed using Pearson product moment correlation coefficient and simple linear regression analysis. The findings revealed that performance appraisal is not a significant positive predictor of business educators’ perceived job performance (R2 = .004, F (1, 107) = 4.03, t = .634, P > .05). The findings also revealed that performance appraisal is not a significant positive predictor of business educators’ perceived retention (R2 = .019, F (1, 107) = 2.095, t = 1.447, P >. 05). Based on the findings, it was recommended that institutions should not only rely on performance appraisal alone as HRM practice in enhancing performance.