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Other Important Questions: When, How, and Why Do Cultural Values Influence Performance Management?

Published online by Cambridge University Press:  04 July 2016

Inchul Cho  and
Stephanie C. Payne
Inchul Cho*
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University
Stephanie C. Payne
Affiliation:
Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University
*
Correspondence concerning this article should be addressed to Inchul Cho, Department of Psychology, Texas A&M University, College Station, TX 77843-4235. E-mail: [email protected]
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Adler et al. (2016) raise some controversial issues about whether performance rating systems should be eliminated or not. We strongly believe that the decision to do away with performance ratings is premature because more research needs to be done, as suggested by “the better questions” that Adler et al. listed at the end of the focal article. We propose that those questions can be extended further by testing them in other cultures and supplemented with these questions: When, how, and why do cultural values influence performance management? Given the nature of our increasingly diverse workforce in which employees with different cultural values work together within the same organization, it is crucial to identify and document the influence of culture on performance appraisal practices. In this commentary, we briefly summarize research to date on the influence of cultural values on performance management and identify some important future research directions.

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Industrial and Organizational Psychology , Volume 9 , Issue 2 , June 2016 , pp. 343 - 350
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Copyright © Society for Industrial and Organizational Psychology 2016 

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