IDEAS home Printed from https://ideas.repec.org/a/sae/ecoind/v34y2013i3p553-570.html
   My bibliography  Save this article

The emergence of symmetries and asymmetries in performance appraisal interviews: An interactional perspective

Author

Listed:
  • Birte Asmuß

Abstract

Performance appraisal interviews (PAI) are in a Scandinavian context supposed to be dialogues between equal partners. This implies a focus on the superior and subordinate as conducting a conversation more than an interview, and a focus on development instead of performance. The article seeks to investigate how these ideals are lived up to in the practice of conducting a PAI. On the basis of a corpus of 30 hours of videotaped PAIs and applying a conversation analytical approach, the study shows that interactional symmetries and asymmetries can arise as a consequence of interactional practices that are dynamically negotiated between and agreed upon by the co-participants on a turn-by-turn basis. These symmetries and asymmetries emerge due to the participants’ orientations to institutional and social norms that can intertwine and overlap, thus impeding, postponing or supporting the ideals of PAIs as being dialogues between equal partners.

Suggested Citation

  • Birte Asmuß, 2013. "The emergence of symmetries and asymmetries in performance appraisal interviews: An interactional perspective," Economic and Industrial Democracy, Department of Economic History, Uppsala University, Sweden, vol. 34(3), pages 553-570, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:34:y:2013:i:3:p:553-570
    DOI: 10.1177/0143831X13489045
    as

    Download full text from publisher

    File URL: https://journals.sagepub.com/doi/10.1177/0143831X13489045
    Download Restriction: no
    File URL: https://libkey.io/10.1177/0143831X13489045?utm_source=ideas
    LibKey link: if access is restricted and if your library uses this service, LibKey will redirect you to where you can use your library subscription to access this item
    ---><---

    Citations

    Citations are extracted by the CitEc Project, subscribe to its RSS feed for this item.
    as


    Cited by:

    1. Melisa Stevanovic & Antero Olakivi & Henri Nevalainen & Pentti Henttonen & Niklas Ravaja, 2024. "Telling a supervisor about experiences of gendered dismissal: Problems of documentation, tellability, and failed authority," Gender, Work and Organization, Wiley Blackwell, vol. 31(2), pages 554-575, March.

    Corrections

    All material on this site has been provided by the respective publishers and authors. You can help correct errors and omissions. When requesting a correction, please mention this item's handle: RePEc:sae:ecoind:v:34:y:2013:i:3:p:553-570. See general information about how to correct material in RePEc.

    If you have authored this item and are not yet registered with RePEc, we encourage you to do it here. This allows to link your profile to this item. It also allows you to accept potential citations to this item that we are uncertain about.

    We have no bibliographic references for this item. You can help adding them by using this form .

    If you know of missing items citing this one, you can help us creating those links by adding the relevant references in the same way as above, for each refering item. If you are a registered author of this item, you may also want to check the "citations" tab in your RePEc Author Service profile, as there may be some citations waiting for confirmation.

    For technical questions regarding this item, or to correct its authors, title, abstract, bibliographic or download information, contact: SAGE Publications (email available below). General contact details of provider: http://www.ekhist.uu.se/english.htm .

    Please note that corrections may take a couple of weeks to filter through the various RePEc services.

    IDEAS is a RePEc service. RePEc uses bibliographic data supplied by the respective publishers.