The performance appraisal interview: An interpretive reassessment
- 1 February 1986
- journal article
- research article
- Published by Taylor & Francis in Quarterly Journal of Speech
- Vol. 72 (1) , 74-87
- https://doi.org/10.1080/00335638609383759
Abstract
This essay proposes a framework for appraisal processes that includes consideration of antecedent and consequent cultural, organizational, and individual information, and the narratives used by participants to relate their experiences. The framework features motives identified by Kenneth Burke as intrinsic to communication marked by hierarchy: “mystery,” “order,” and “the kill.” Three performance appraisals are critiqued and directions for future interpretive studies are recommended.Keywords
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