“We have performance appraisal every day and every hour”: Transferring performance management to Russia

Analyzing Performance Appraisal System Through Personal Biases: An Empirical Assessment

“…In addition, the research found that employee bias has a significant and negative impact on performance appraisal method. The findings of current research are in line with the previous researches (Haralayya, 2022;Meng & Zhang, 2022;Outila & Fey, 2022;Rana et al, 2022;Rubin et al, 2022;Wang et al, 2022). The primary intention behind writing this paper was to study connections that might be made between personal bias and performance rating systems.…”

“…Many studies have characterized personal biases in a broad range of ways. Prejudice and hostile biases are examples of personal biases (Outila & Fey, 2022). Both of these biases divert the rater's attention away from reality or the rater's intended conduct.…”

Sensemaking of environmental commitment: a socio-historical contextualization of post-Soviet managers’ views

“…The main criterion for selecting the respondents was their personal experience of conducting business in the Soviet or early post-Soviet eras (i.e., 1980-1990 s). Recent literature on talent and human resource management in Russia suggests that the legacy of the Soviet past is still largely persistent in Russian society today (Holden & Vaiman, 2013;Outila et al, 2018;Outila & Fey, 2021). Furthermore, we concur with Holden and Vaiman (2013, p. 139), who state that "most Russian companies are still headed by their owners and creators, who are unlikely to leave their positions and make way for the new generation outside of the owner's 'inner circle.'"…”

“…All the respondents were, at the time of the interviews, middle-aged (45-65 years old), and all of them were involved in the Russian business environment in some manner between the 1980 s and 1990 s. Therefore, the respondents represent post-Soviet managers whose sensemaking may be influenced in a certain manner by the Soviet socio-historical context (see e.g. Ivanova-Gongne & Koporcic, Dziubaniuk, et al, 2018;Outila & Fey, 2021). Despite the collapse of the Soviet Union occurring in 1991, we still treated the two respondents who started their business in the early 1990 s as post-Soviet as their personal identities were largely influenced by these transitional times.…”

“…Russia today still bears some traces of Soviet managerial culture and is affected by the uneven economic development in post-Soviet societies (Hardy, 2014) and the heritage of socialist and communist ideologies (Runst, 2013;Puffer & Braithwaite, 2016). While Russian managers undoubtedly learned from Western countries during the early post-Soviet period of the 1990 s (Astakhova et al, 2010), Russia's current state-managed capitalism (Villo et al, 2020) and society are still largely influenced by its Soviet past (Graziosi, 2021;Outila & Fey, 2021). In particular, managers' attitudes towards corporate social responsibility (CSR) are partly shaped by the Soviet socio-historical context as the emphasis on the social dimension of CSR in Russia can be manifested as a consequence of Soviet history (Fifka & Pobizhan, 2014).…”