How do you the employee respond to your performance appraisal?

Usually with negativity. Performance Appraisals have become a management fad over the past decade whereby every organisation seems to think that by religiously adhering to this practice, people within the organisation will grow and develop in the company image. Nothing could be further from reality. Experience has proved to me that since those who are carrying out the appraisal are usually poorly trained, poorly prepared and with an ' I am your boss so I must be more effective than you' attitude. The result is more often than not highly subjective and of very little value to either the organisation or the appraisee.