Performance appraisal is a concept associated with Human Resource Management and by this

association one concept of the broader concept of management. Much work has examined

Performance appraisal practices from a critical stance and this paper provides a brief review with

reference to the banking organizations. The concept of performance appraisal is still emerging and finding space in both academic and practitioner spheres. This paper is an attempt to do the empirical evaluation of performance appraisal by applying some of the strands of critical thinking to performance appraisal practices and discourses.