The main aim of this study is to examine the effectiveness of performance management system of teachers in theSaudi Ministry of Education.The study also explores whether the performance management system provides allthe information needed to reflect teachers’ efficiency and productivity. The current research aims to identify theshortcomings of the performance management system for teachers in order to determine how teaching qualitymay be developed and improved. This is accomplished through a self-administered questionnaire survey ofteachers, designed to measure teachers’ opinions of the performance management system. A total number ofteachers completed the survey was 502. Statistical Package for Social Science (SPSS) was used to analysis thedata. The findings of the study demonstrate that teachers’ perceptions regarding their performance managementsystem are generally oriented towards dissatisfaction. The results show that this dissatisfaction arises from theproblems relating to the performance management process itself. Additionally, the performance managementsystem for Saudi teachers does not capture the necessary information for managers to make informed decisionsand policies in relation to the teachers. Moreover, many performance management system-related problems suchlack of training of head teachers for conducting performance management system along with teachers’ beliefsabout bias errors existing in performance management system caused teachers’ dissatisfaction. Therefore, thisstudy has proposed recommendations to overcome the shortcomings of the existing system and to enhanceteachers’ satisfaction with their performance management system.
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