This paper used the contingency theory and the method of profile deviation to discuss the fit of corporation life cycle and employee performance appraisal methods and its effect on organizational performance. The employee performance appraisal method includes trait methods, behavior methods and result methods, and the organizational performance is divided into four dimensions of financial, customer, internal business processes, learning and innovation. The result shows: 1) The fit of start-up stage and trait methods has significant positive influence on organizational performance of internal business processes and learning and innovation, and the fit of start-up stage and behavior methods has significant influence impact on organizational performance of financial and learning and innovation. 2) The fit of growth stage and trait methods has significant positive influence on organizational performance of customer, internal business processes and learning and innovation; the fit of growth stage and behavior methods has significant positive influence on organizational performance of financial, but at the same time, the fit of growth stage and behavior methods has significant negative influence on organizational performance of internal business processes and learning and innovation. 3) The fit of mature stage and behavior methods has significant positive influence on organizational performance of financial, but at the same time, the fit of mature stage and trait methods and behavior methods have significant negative influence on organizational performance of internal business processes and customer. 4) The fit of decay stage and trait methods has significant positive influence on organizational performance of customer, internal business processes and learning and innovation, but at the same time, the fit of decay stage and result methods has significant negative influence on organizational performance of customer and internal business processes.