In this paper, we investigate how conventions enable organisational actors to cope with paradoxical tensions in performance appraisal systems. Building on a case study of a performance appraisal system reform in a public sector organisation, we analyse how this organisation enableds superiors to...

How do evaluative practices become natural and ubiquitous in an organization? In this paper we integrate findings from previous empirical work on the adoption of evaluative practices in organizations with insights from institutional theory and social psychology research for advancing the...

Over the last decades, HRM scholars associated the inclusion of women into HRM with the occupation’s loss of status. Such views have difficulties to explain more recent developments in Europe that show a co-evolution of feminization and status increase of HRM. In this article, we review these...

Die aktuelle Diskussion ueber betriebliche Gesundheitsfoerderung fokussiert auf freiwillige Massnahmen, fuer die Betriebe zusaetzliche Kosten tragen. Bezug nehmend auf das Konzept des Rationalitaetsmythos im soziologischen Neoinstitutionalismus wird untersucht, welche Gruende fuer betriebliche...