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Exploring performance management in four UK trade unions (2016)
Journal Article
Thursfield, D., & Grayley, K. (2016). Exploring performance management in four UK trade unions. Employee relations, 38(5), 789-804. https://doi.org/10.1108/er-08-2015-0167

Purpose This article explores performance management in four UK trade unions. Specifically, the extent to which managers in the four unions accept or dismiss the unitarist, disciplinary and performative values that arguably characterise performance m... Read More about Exploring performance management in four UK trade unions.

Culture, Wasta and perceptions of performance appraisal in Saudi Arabia (2016)
Journal Article
Al Harbi, S., Thursfield, D., & Bright, D. (2017). Culture, Wasta and perceptions of performance appraisal in Saudi Arabia. The international journal of human resource management, 28(19), 2792-2810. https://doi.org/10.1080/09585192.2016.1138987

This article explores the relationship between Arabic culture and employees’ perceptions of performance appraisal in a Saudi Arabian company named SACO. Using an interpretive and qualitative methodological framework, the article suggests that Western... Read More about Culture, Wasta and perceptions of performance appraisal in Saudi Arabia.

Implications and consequences : how can learning from the use of a psychometric tool inform other HRD interventions? (2016)
Thesis
Freer, B. H. (2016). Implications and consequences : how can learning from the use of a psychometric tool inform other HRD interventions?. (Thesis). University of Hull. Retrieved from https://hull-repository.worktribe.com/output/4218435

This thesis presents findings on the implications and consequences of using a personality preference model as an organizational development tool. Whilst the research focuses on the proprietary model Insights Discovery®, the intention is not to valida... Read More about Implications and consequences : how can learning from the use of a psychometric tool inform other HRD interventions?.