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HPCL-E-appraisal

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PCQ Bureau
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HPCL operated with a legacy paper-based system for performance appraisals,

but with employees and locations running into thousands, it was always a tedious

task to complete the process and make it effective in the scheduled time. So

HPCL went for an electronic system with improved functionalities to manage

performance in a fraction of the time that was taken earlier.

E-appraisal has brought more transparency into the system, has helped in cost

reduction on account of stationery and movement of paper-based documents that

involved couriers and postage. There is now an MIS on competency levels of

officers that helps take informed decisions in time. The application has been

developed by an in-house team. This is a three-tier Web-based application on the

Lotus Domino Application Server which is hosted on RedHat Linux Application

Server 3.0. Two blade servers with 2 Xeon processors, 4 GB RAM and 80 GB HDDs

are being used as a hardware platform. The three modules that the application

works on comprise self appraisal, performance rating and moderation. In future,

HPCL plans to integrate this system to the Balance Score Card, where goals and

targets shall be derived from cards entitled for a particular position. There

are also plans to populate the performance data from other systems like ERP.

Project Specs
Business problem: There was no single

integrated performance management system that helped automate the appraisal

process

IT solutions: Implemented e-appraisal, an online

performance management system

Impact: Reduction in time consumed in completing the appraisal

process, reduced biases

Implementation partner: In-house

Project head: M V Sreeram, GM-IT

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