Performance appraisal and the emergence of management

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This article addresses the debate concerning the study of management. Arguing that definitions of management have suffered from conceptual obscurity, it advocates that an understanding of management must addresss relational, constitutive and political dimensions of its operation. The work of Michel Foucault, particularly the concept of power/knowledge and his ascending analysis of power, offers such an approach. The relevance of Foucault for recasting the study of management is illustrated through an analysis of performance appraisal systems introducd into UK universities. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Research, Management research

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Practical reason and performance appraisal

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This paper examines responses of chairs of university departments to the news that they would be required to conduct a formal performance appraisal system. It is suggested that in order to understand resistance to appraisal we need to reject explanations invoking polarized antimonies - formal/informal, rational/political - and interrogate the concept of rationality. Drawing on MacIntyre's work, the paper examines the concept of practical reason to make sense of the chairs' responses and considers its relevance for understanding management and change in universities. (Reprinted by permission of the publisher.)

Beliefs, opinions and attitudes, Departmental chairmen (Universities), Department heads

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Managerial Technologies, Ethics and Managing

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The article analyzes the extent to which performance measurement and business planning permit engagement with ethics to illustrate the relationship between moral and technical concepts in management practice.

Public affairs, Employee Evaluation, Planning, Business Ethics, Ethics, Management, Comparative analysis, Ethical aspects, Business planning, Business plans

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