Performance Appraisals and Culture Reference Library

Top : Performance Appraisals and Culture : Page 2 - Performance appraisal is largely an American invention consistent with U.S. culture. Does national culture (or for that matter organizational culture) affect how and whether performance appraisals work? Of course. Read about cultural effects on performance management.

Wage and Performance Appraisal Systems in Flux: A Japan-United States Comparison by Hiromichi Shibata

By HIROMICHI SHIBATA - Abstract only - article is pay per view. Abstract: Unionized Japanese and American firms made changes in their wage and performance appraisal systems during the 1990s that were inspired by features of each others' traditional employment systems. Although Japanese firms made greater changes in the wage-setting process compared to American firms, outcomes in Japan changed little. Even with these changes, the wage and performance appraisal systems in the two countries retain distinctive characteristics. In the American firms' segregation between white- and blue-collar employees and high- and low-performers remains a feature of wage and performance appraisal systems; the Japanese system maintained its characteristic integrated form, but underwent moderate modifications. (Added: 22-Jan-2006 Hits: 648 )

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