Key Result Area

Take some time to mentally prepare for your performance appraisal interview. if your company doesn’t give you a KRA (Key Result Area) form to fill, just make a list of yourself to jog your memory. At the interview, after your boss has had his say, assertive enough to reasonably and politely draw attention to your specific contributions over the past year. And when the time right, tell him clearly that you feel you deserve an annual increment .try to get the least a verbal commitment from him for future compensation. If he brings up the state of the economy, ask him when he sees himself giving you your due raise, or perhaps a one-time bonus.
If you think this approach will not work with your boss; try an indirect method… find an occasion for a casual conversation with him, when he is relatively relaxed; perhaps during lunchtime or a coffee break, or while you’re travelling together for a meeting. bring up the context of recession –but use a positive trigger, like a newspaper report that predicts that things will look up by the end of the year-then gradually steer conversation towards compensation for the hike you won’t get or the pay cut you may have taken. There’s little you can do beyond that.