Two Perspectives 1. We must recognise that staff appraisal systems are standard operating procedures adopted by management to regularise behaviour - both of employees being appraised and managers doing the appraisal. Managers who implement the schemes are required to conform and do it to a time and a standard. There is no equivocation about this.
Appraisal schemes are as much a control on the manager's doing it as staff on the receiving end.
Such policies fit neatly with the rational-legal model of a classical, Weberian organisation. Policy and procedures define, require and communicate criteria of performance, expectation and behaviour. These are then exchanged as records and assumed agreements. Imposed by the manager on the member of staff. It is done to the members of staff.