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Culture and performance appraisal in multinational enterprises: Implementing French headquarters’ practices in Middle East and North Africa subsidiaries

April 15, 2021 Abstract Performance appraisal requires interactions between managers and employees and as such can be highly sensitive to differences in cultural values. This can be challenging when multinational enterprises (MNEs) are active across different...

Unintended consequences of promotions: Importance of annual incentives for performance management systems

April 9, 2021 Abstract With increased globalization, multinational enterprises (MNEs) have become pervasive in emerging economies such as India. Given that employee performance is multidimensional and culture‐bound, the management of performance in MNEs is very...

Disruptions and General Distress for Essential and Nonessential Employees During the COVID-19 Pandemic

April 6, 2021 Abstract The COVID-19 pandemic and outbreak response represent a global crisis that has affected various aspects of people’s lives, including work. Speculation is rife about the impact of the crisis on employees. Countries and organizations worldwide...

Adoption of high‐performance work systems in small and medium‐sized enterprises

March 10, 2021 This paper investigates the factors influencing the adoption of high‐performance work systems (HPWS) in Chinese small and medium‐sized enterprises (SMEs). The paper is based on a sample of 207 SMEs, which covers many of the ownership types and business...