Title Analysis of formal and informal systems of performance evaluation: the case of the Office of the Prime minister of Lithuania /
Translation of Title Formalios ir neformalios veiklos vertinimo sistemos analizė: Lietuvos Ministro Pirmininko tarnybos atvejis.
Authors Kratavičiūtė-Ališauskienė, Aistė
ISBN 9789955196549
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Pages 173
Keywords [eng] formal and informal systems of performance evaluation ; work motivation ; personality traits and types ; ethnographic research ; HEXACO PI-R
Abstract [eng] System of performance evaluation is an essential part of performance management and a major source of organizational control. Discussion about motivational/demotivational power of the formal and informal systems of performance evaluation for different personality types of employees opens a new page in the studies of human resource management. The following research question reflects the core of this thesis “To what extent the informal system of performance evaluation exists beside the formal system of performance evaluation and how do they operate as work motivators/demotivators for civil servants of different psychological types?”. The formal and informal systems of performance evaluation in the Office of the Prime Minister of Lithuania (OPML) are analysed using the theoretical research framework based on three different perspectives: sociology of law, human resource management and psychology. An ethnographic research, supplemented by the psychometric instrument HEXACO PI-R, is conducted to unfold the informal system of performance evaluation and to investigate its motivational/demotivation impact on two different personality types of OPML advisers (ORGANIZED and FLEXIBLE). The formal system is found to be a motivator for the ORGANIZED civil servants and demotivator for the FLEXIBLE advisers, while the informal system served as demotivator for all of the advisers who admitted its existence. In-depth interpretations of the doctoral dissertation research results are provided and conclusions drawn.
Dissertation Institution Mykolo Romerio universitetas.
Type Doctoral thesis
Language English
Publication date 2014