Chane, Abraraw (PhD)Girma, Tigist2018-10-182023-11-042018-10-182023-11-042017-05-26http://etd.aau.edu.et/handle/123456789/12872United bank has been implementing employee performance evaluation system whereby immediate supervisors are involved in the evaluation process. Though there were a few studies that have been conducted, they were not tried to see the issue in consideration of multiple performance variables. Therefore, the main objective of the study is to evaluate the relationship between performance appraisal and employees’ motivation in united bank S.C. in order to achieve the objectives, the focus of the study is on constructs of performance evaluation system including participate in objectives setting, quality of performance criteria, availability of pre-set goal, feedback and measuring performance based on evidence. The study employed a survey questionnaire and 331 were distributed of which 195, 95 and 41 are for clerical, non-clerical and managerial group respectively. Sample respondents are selected from nineteen branches and HO using stratified random sampling technique. Collected data through questionnaire were analyzed quantitatively using both descriptive and inferential statistics with the help of SPSS version 20. The result of the study indicated that performance appraisal has positive and significant relationship with employees’ motivationen-USemployee performancerandom samplingThesis