Feedback quality is essential towards pursuing an effective performance management system. This study is conducted to determine how impactful is performance appraisal feedback on performance management among academics of higher education institutions in Nigeria could be. The study adopted cross sectional survey research design where 216 valid responses generated from the structured questionnaires administered served as study sample and thus used for analyzing data. 0.957 and 0.962 were respectively found as coefficient values using Composite Reliability. Partial-least square (PLS SEM) was used to analyze data. Findings suggest performance appraisal feedback supports performance management among academics for the sampled higher education institution. It was therefore recommended among others that academics should be carried on board on the goals of the institution‘s performance management system and the mechanism for giving feedback be clear.