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The aim of this article is to stimulate thoughts and<br />introduce new prospects to the study of performance<br />appraisal accuracy, especially in the raters’ perspective.<br />It focuses on a relatively understudied aspect<br />of performance appraisal which is raters’ intention<br />towards appraising accurately. In order to understand<br />the application of this aspect, this paper attempts<br />to develop a conceptual framework based<br />on hypotheses of the direct and indirect factors that<br />predict the raters’ intention to appraise accurately.<br />It is hypothesized that the raters’ experience in appraising,<br />raters’ perceived purposes of appraisal,<br />and raters’ perceived information adequacy for appraising<br />will predict the raters’ intention towards<br />appraising accurately by influencing the raters’ attitude<br />towards appraising accurately, raters’ perceived<br />subjective norms towards appraising accurately, and<br />raters’ perceived behavioral control towards appraising<br />accurately.<br />Keywords: performance appraisal accuracy, behavioral<br />intentions, attitudes, perceived subjective norms,<br />perceived behavioral control, background factors