...Bilqees Ghani; Muhammad Abdur Rahman Malik; Khalid Rasheed Memon Purpose Research on the underlying mechanisms that transfer the effects of performance appraisal (PA) on employees’ behaviors and intentions remains scarce. The social exchange view of performance appraisal can be a source of deeper...

...), performance appraisal (PA) and perceived organizational fairness (POF) in the Iranian public sector. This research also seeks to answer this question: to what extent PSM confirmed in Western countries is generalizable to the Iranian public sector? Design/methodology/approach A survey of 779 employees...

... of 268 evaluations were collected and analyzed. Findings The analysis of the employee's performance appraisals provided by ratings and narrative comments indicates a low correlation between these assessments. The reasons for such low correlation include the qualitative assessments variability...

...Michelle Brown; Maria L. Kraimer; Virginia K. Bratton Purpose Using job demands–resources (JD–R) theory, the purpose of this paper is to investigate the role of job demands (difficult performance appraisal (PA) objectives) and job resources (performance feedback and leader member exchange (LMX...

...Melissa Tuytens; Geert Devos Purpose Performance appraisal is used internationally to improve employee performance, also in the educational field. However, doubts exist about the effectiveness of performance appraisal. This study aims to contribute by expanding the knowledge about important...

...Tingting Chen; Peiguan Wu; Kwok Leung Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the relationships of individual performance appraisal with appraisees' reactions towards their workgroups and the mechanisms underlying these relationships. Design/methodology/approach A questionnaire survey...

...Michelle Brown; Douglas Hyatt; John Benson Purpose The purpose of this paper is to examine the role of low quality performance appraisals (PA) on three human resource management outcomes (job satisfaction, organisational commitment and intention to quit). Design/methodology/approach Using data...

... into performance appraisals, and has implications for managers seeking to improve employees' ethical behaviors, and for researchers examining performance appraisals, cognition, ethics, and organizational processes. © Emerald Group Publishing Limited 2009 Performance appraisal Professional ethics...

... that within the US performance appraisals are a central focus of many discrimination cases. Thus, there is reason to speculate, as did Dovidio and Gaertner (1998) , that where White supervisory bias exists, so too will disparities exist in performance related ratings. However, critics challenge...

... development Performance appraisal Coaching 360‐degree feedback Another way of comparing these activities is by their degree of simulation. Appraisals are very close to the actual job as they are based on agreed performance standards and (usually) conducted by the line manager. The content of coaching...

...Bård Kuvaas Purpose It is often suggested that in order for performance appraisal to positively influence employee behaviour, employees must experience positive appraisal reactions. The purpose of the present study is to examine two different models of the relationship between employee perceptions...

... systems Performance appraisal Management effectiveness Cognition Hong Kong I will state my belief that cognitive appraisal research will continue to be a viable, vibrant area for research, although I think that the cognitive research in the future will need to be different from the cognitive...

...Eunmi Chang; Juhee Hahn Purpose To examine the effect of pay‐for‐performance on distributive justice and the moderating effect of commitment performance appraisal in the case of Korean employees. Design/methodology/approach Data were collected from 28 companies and 656 employees. Moderated...

...June M.L. Poon There is evidence that performance ratings are often manipulated for political purposes. The present study examined the effects of employees' perceptions of political motives in performance appraisal on their job satisfaction and intention to quit using survey data from...

... or, as in two cases, coordinated their PRC operations via a regional headquarters (RHQ) in Hong Kong and Singapore. People’s Republic of China Human resource management Ownership Multinationals Performance appraisal Training In the past two decades, the way enterprises in the People’s Republic...

... expertise. Ratee technical proficiency was assessed using a three‐item scale (α=0.84) comprising the following items: Performance appraisal Statistics Competences Management The increasing complexity of a manager’s job in today’s workplace has contributed to substantial interest in multi‐source...

...Paul S. Hempel Multinational corporations operating in Greater China need to continue improving employee performance levels, but Western style performance appraisals might not be the right answer. This paper examines some of the differences in the ways that Chinese and Western managers view...

... scientists. A degree of self‐reporting is required and the different personalities of employees, or the strategies they adopt, can be seen to distort the result: © MCB UP Limited 1997 Incentives Performance‐related pay Performance appraisal Pharmaceutical industry R&D Scientists...

...Tom Redman; Brian P. Mathews Examines managers′ attitudes to the use of upward and the more traditional downward performance appraisal systems. The results are drawn from a survey of UK managers. Finds that upward appraisal is viewed as being generally less acceptable than “traditional”appraisal...

... Management Performance appraisal Performance‐related pay Workforce Much of the writing about staff appraisal schemes, aimed at managers and supervisors, has concentrated on the skills necessary for the successful conduct of appraisal interviews[ 1 , 2 , 3 , 4 ]. While I accept the importance...