Attitudes Of The Employees And The Open Performance And Review Appraisal System In Public Sector In Tanzania: A Case Of Sikonge District Designated Hospital

ABSTRACT

This study examined the awareness and attitudes and status of staff on Open

Performance and Review Appraisal System in the Public sector in Tanzania. The study

was conducted at Sikonge Designated Hospital in Sikonge District in Tabora Region.

This study employed both cross sectional as well as a case study to get data about the

problem. The sample of the study consisted of 80 employees who were obtained by

multistage cluster sampling. Data were collected from different section in the Sikonge

District designated Hospital so as to examine the attitudes of employees on OPRAS in

public organisation. Data collection method included questionnaire, interviews and

documentation review. The data collected were analysed through the use of Statistical

Package of Social Science (SPSS).

The findings show that most staff had negative perception on the way the OPRAS was

used in human resource management. In addition, few cases of value addition were

reported for sections using OPRAS such as making staff creative, confidence and

productive. However, issues of delay in distributing funds, low management priority on

OPRAS and use of fixed salary were reported to be the major challenges facing the

OPRAS.

The entire conclusion from the study expected to reveal the altitudes of employees on

Open Performance and Review system in Public sector in Tanzania and measures to be

taken to improve the effectiveness of OPRAS in Public sector in Tanzania.

It is, therefore, recommended that the government should devise the regulations that

will enforce the use of OPRAS. This should go hand in hand with revising the payment

system of which we currently use fixed rate that is not matching with the OPRAS

principles. Funds should be distributed timely to make the staff responsible and hence

meet their agreed objectives.