APPRAISING PERFORMANCE
While the expatriate is on assignment, the individual performance must be appraised (Dowling, Welch and Schuler 1999; Tahvanainen 2000). Many comparative research studies on British, German, Japanese, and US multinationals established that expatriate performance appraisal systems are different from the parent countries’ systems. Performance appraisal mechanisms varied from quantitative (e.g. graphic scale) to qualitative (e.g. MBO or narrative). Depending on the nature of expatriate assignments, job performance dimensions varied widely. Multinational organizations, with respect to the expatriate assignment, need to evaluate such performance dimensions which need not always be job-related. They may concern issues such as ...
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