An Examination of the Relationship of a Western Performance-Management Process to Key Workplace Behaviours in Transition Economies
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Abstract
Abstract The purpose of this study is to determine whether the perceived effectiveness of a performance-management process is associated with effective workplace behaviours in Russia and Poland as it typically is in Western countries, such as the U.S. The study considers the extent to which cultural dimensions, such as in-group collectivism, power distance, and performance orientation, moderate the relationship between performance management and employee behaviour. Using samples drawn primarily from adult education programs in the university setting, the study asked 99 U.S. employees, 100 Polish employees, and 86 Russian employees to provide ratings of their firm's performance-management process while coworkers rated the trustworthy behaviour and energized take-action behaviour of these employees. The results show that the correlations between a performance-management composite and these two behavioural measures are significant, but that national culture did not moderate these relationships in the three countries. These findings lend credence to a universalistic view of performance management. Therefore, companies in these transition economies should feel encouraged when introducing a performance-management process. Résumé La présente étude se propose de déterminer si, en Russie et en Pologne, l'efficacité perçue d'un processus de gestion de la performance est liée aux comportements efficaces au lieu de travail, comme c'est le cas dans les pays occidentaux tels que les États-Unis. L'étude examine l'impact que les dimensions culturelles telles que le collectivisme intragroupe, la distance du pouvoir et l'orientation de la performance modèrent la relation entre la gestion de la performance et le comportement de l'employé. Elle se base sur des échantillons issus principalement des programmes d'éducation d'adulte dans l'environnement universitaire. Ces échantillons sont constitués de 99 employés américains, 100 employés polonais, et 86 employés russes. À tous ces employés, nous avons demandé d'évaluer la gestion de la performance de leurs entreprises respectives. Dans le même temps, nous avons invité leurs collègues à évaluer le comportement fiable et le comportement pragmatique de ces employés. Les résultats indiquent qu'il y a une forte corrélation entre le tandem performance-gestion et ces deux mesures behavioristes. Ils indiquent également que la culture nationale ne modère pas ces relations dans les pays cités. Ces résultats corroborent la thèse universaliste de la gestion de la performance. Aussi, les entreprises qui évoluent dans ces économies en transition doivent-elles se sentir rassurées quand elles mettent en place un processus de la gestion de la performance.
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Full frame machine prediction
Teacher imitationNot calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. The Gemma side is a direct model label for every work in the frame, read from the title-only record. The Codex side is a classifier learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and calibrated to design-weighted sample rates; fields without enough sample support carry no Codex call. Candidate is the union of the two sides; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels.
Distilled classifier scores by category (both heads)
| Category | Codex | Gemma |
|---|---|---|
| Metaresearch | 0.001 | 0.003 |
| Meta-epidemiology (narrow) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Meta-epidemiology (broad) | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Bibliometrics | 0.001 | 0.001 |
| Science and technology studies | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Scholarly communication | 0.001 | 0.000 |
| Open science | 0.000 | 0.001 |
| Research integrity | 0.000 | 0.000 |
| Insufficient payload (model declined to judge) | 0.001 | 0.000 |
Machine scores (provisional)
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Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.
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