• S.Saravanan
• Dr.S.Kavitha

The HR practices are important for effective functioning of employees. This has become more complex due to the expansion of business operations across the country. Hence it is a great challenge to attract and retain employees, preparing the employees to meet their and the organizational growth and development. Employee retention is one of the crucial aspects of human resource management. To retain employees organizations are doing several practices. Managing employee performance is an integral part of the work that all managers and officials perform in any institution (Dirks, K. T., & Ferrin, D. L., 2000). Descriptive Research Design was adopted in this study. By using Simple Random sampling technique 63 samples were selected for the study. In many organizations appraisals are used to help determine reward outcome by identifying employees who should get the majority of available merit such as pay increases, bonus and promotions. Hence, in this study an attempt was made to analyse the performance appraisal of employees working in an engineering industry in Coimbatore and to analyse how the appraisal helps the employees to retain in the organization for long period of time.

Employee Performance, Employee retention and HR Practices.

"EFFECTIVENESS OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL TOWARDS RETAINMENT OF EMPLOYEES IN ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES OF COIMBATORE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no.365-370, June 2019, Available :http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907M47.pdf

"EFFECTIVENESS OF PERFORMANCE APPRAISAL TOWARDS RETAINMENT OF EMPLOYEES IN ENGINEERING INDUSTRIES OF COIMBATORE", International Journal of Emerging Technologies and Innovative Research (www.jetir.org | UGC and issn Approved), ISSN:2349-5162, Vol.6, Issue 6, page no. pp365-370, June 2019, Available at : http://www.jetir.org/papers/JETIR1907M47.pdf