Making objectives common in performance appraisal interviews

From entry proposals to a joint statement: Practices of shared text production in multiparty meeting interaction

“…Although she does not actually analyze the occurrence of writing within this sequence, Stevanovic's data extracts show that the sequence culminates in both parties writing the decision down: writing seems to seal the decision made. Interestingly, the same phenomenon has been analyzed in detail by Asmuß and Oshima (2012) and Pälli and Lehtinen (2014), who also investigate the phased construction of a text document and show how writing or typing is treated as indexing joint approval of the proposal concerning the text. Similarly, preparatory actions such as lifting a pen or moving a cursor without proceeding to actual writing or typing can be used to indicate that the proposal is still under negotiation.…”

“…Asmuß and Oshima (2012), Pälli and Lehtinen (2014), Stevanovic (2012Stevanovic ( , 2013 and Stevanovic and Peräkylä (2012) have examined proposals in meeting interaction. These studies have shown that in proposals participants orient to two kinds of sets of deontic rights: the right to propose and the right to accept and/or to reject the proposal.…”

“…Surprisingly, despite the omnipresence of written texts in today's working life, very little is known about their interactional and situated production. Earlier studies in the area have largely focused on institutional encounters, in which the construction of a text facilitates the accomplishment of institution-specific tasks, such as questioning in police interrogation (Jönsson and Linell, 1991;Komter, 2006Komter, , 2012, order taking in customer service (Moore et al, 2010) or goal setting in performance appraisal interviews (Pälli and Lehtinen, 2014). These encounters are typically distinguished by divergent opportunities for the participants to carry out the editing work, which is related to their differing rights to perform certain actions as well as their asymmetrical accessibility to the material resources of the setting.…”

“…In police interrogation, for example, the suspect waits while the interrogator types the answer on his/her computer --this marked distribution of activities is related to the substance as well as the completion point of the typing being known only to the latter (Komter, 2006). Contrary to this, the other party may be able to monitor and interrupt the writing, making the text construction more of a joint achievement (Moore et al, 2010), or both parties may even be expected to take up the writing independently (Pälli and Lehtinen, 2014).…”

The Urban Transition Performance of Resource-Based Cities in Northeast China

“…Performance is often used in the field of management to indicate meaning the degree to which the results obtained by an individual, a team or an organization engaging in an activity are satisfactory [28,29]. The transition of resource-based cities typically focuses on economic restructuring by reducing the city's dependence on its resource-based industries, which will have a knock-on and positive effect on living standards, social stability and the environment [30].…”