ABSTRACT
Performance appraisal is an important control tool than can assist an organization to achieve increased productivity control has been an important management function that keeps an organization on the right direction. Thus, this study was necessitated by the need to investigate the performance appraisal techniques employed by the firms under study that is Alpons West Africa Plastics Company Limits Ano Zandob Nigeria Ltd. As well as the effectiveness of these techniques. This survey has been carried out and these techniques aid by the firms and discovered to be ranking and forced descriptive. However, employees at time react negatively towards the appraisal process, this is due to motivational and rational factors that sometimes affect performance appraisal. On the basis of the findings, the researcher has prescribed continuous use of performance appraisal as appropriate techniques, motivate of employees and orientations of supervisors on the appraisal process. In the research work, the first chapter deals with the introductory aspect of the work.