Performance Appraisals and Culture

'Japanization' of a performance appraisal system: a historical comparison of the American and Japanese systems -- Endo 1 (2): 247 -- Social

By K Endo - A very short abstract of an article that explains the historical evolution of the Japanese approach to performance appraisal. Provides a reference to the performance appraisal source article. (Added: 22-Jan-2006 Hits: 1009 )

Annual Performance Appraisal and Evaluation in Indonesia - Cross-cultural business article by George Whitfield

By George B. Whitfield - hile generally adopted in most western-based business cultures, such employee review and appraisal in Indonesia can be fraught with misunderstandings as to purpose and methodology, be filled with accusations of impartiality, and be slowed by hesitation to formally criticize a subordinate. This issue comes up in easily 95 percent of my cross-cultural training programs. American companies normally wish to establish some sort of review procedure but once they begin addressing how to actually institute the process and decide what direct benefits they wish to see, they often become bogged down. The threshold question then is whether a foreign company should even try to implement such a system. There are several cultural barriers to such a system here. Among them is the difficulty with direct communication with employees and also the %u2018saving up%u2019 of problem areas until a later time. (Added: 20-Jan-2006 Hits: 757 )

Good Intentions, Lost in Translation

By Irwin Speizer - Incentives are catching on overseas, but the value of awards can be misunderstood. Cultural and economic factors affect how they're viewed (Added: 22-Jan-2006 Hits: 820 )

Organization Studies: Strategic HRM through the cultural looking glass: mapping the cognition of British and Indian managers - human resourc

By na - The strategic integration of HRM into their corporate strategy and the devolvement of responsibility for HRM to line managers are both products of Western HRM practice (see Brewster et al. 1997; Budhwar and Sparrow 1997). The perceptions of Indian managers clearly indicate that most want to practise the functions of integration and devolvement (indicating the transferability of Western management to India). In reality, however, this rarely happens. (Added: 22-Jan-2006 Hits: 578 )

Performance Appraisals In India - Issues

By Sanjeev Kumar - We must also not forget that the culture of the organization clearly affects appraisal relationships. The only possible way for organizations, to minimize the possible conflict among appraisal objectives, is to emphasize on climate setting that will facilitate achieving the objectives that an appraisal system intends to achieve. Thus what needs to be done is to encourage managerial styles that will lead to openness and frankness in relationships as a condition for establishing an effective performance appraisal system. The Indian companies need to realize that the relationship between organization culture and performance appraisal system is a two way process implying that they can successfully use their performance appraisal system to bring about cultural change. (Added: 20-Jan-2006 Hits: 900 )

The Hindu Business Line : New system makes the grade %u2014 Assessing IAS officers

By K. Ashok Vardhan Shetty - The `Performance Appraisal Report', a new annual scheme for assessing IAS officers, will replace the Annual Confidential Reports in other public services too. (Added: 22-Jan-2006 Hits: 349 )

The Results-Oriented Performance Culture

By na - The Results-Oriented Performance Culture system focuses on having a diverse, results-oriented, high-performing workforce, as well as a performance management system that effectively plans, monitors, develops, rates, and rewards employee performance. (Added: 20-Jan-2006 Hits: 579 )